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Tradesmalls

Summary

Tradesmalls is a Goliath city, preserved as Trade Smalls on Browning’s pre-Dome map. It was forgotten or erased from memory, later remembered, and rebuilt around underground tunnels and caves as a mixed Goliath, Dunnen, and Tarnished settlement. Its restoration is part of the wider Goliath liberation thread: after dragon occupation and Verdigrim’s rule beneath the city, a new council began negotiating mutual protection, trade, and a shared future for the peoples now living there.

Known Details

  • Dunnensend scholarship recorded Tradesmalls as a Goliath town from about 900 years earlier.
  • Browning’s pre-Dome map preserves the label Trade Smalls.
  • Trade Smalls is the same place as Tradesmalls / Tradesmalls / Tradesmalls.
  • Galimma’s Day 42 dragon-family intelligence placed Verdigrim in Tradesmalls / Tradesmalls, and the army planned to attack there.
  • Day 42 later reported Tradesmalls totally empty of dragons and Goliaths, with Ruby Eye missing.
  • On Day 43, Anastasia’s reports said Tradesmalls’ dragons were missing.
  • Day 46 records a hideout of Verdigrim’s Tarnished offspring fifteen miles below Tradesmalls.
  • On Day 50, the party reached Tradesmalls and saw goliaths, Dunnen people, and vulture people gathered near an underground network of tunnels and caves.
  • On Day 51, Verdigrim called Tradesmalls Verdigrimtown; Verdigrim’s tunnels and dark-stone, copper-accented throne room are underneath Tradesmalls.
  • By Day 58, Tradesmalls was becoming a mixed settlement of Goliaths, Dunnen’s, and greenish-copper Tarnished dragonborn. Verdigrim said the peace agreements were going well, and the Tarnished had been promised part of the city with mutual protection and trade.
  • The Day 58 council included Ogrim Thungalis, Anita Sandsong, Gren Boulderfist, Dirk Senior, Blisterfoot, Knots Flesh, and Verdigrim; Knots Flesh reported that Benu had returned after penance with Garadule.
  • Ogrim said Tradesmalls historically traded with small folk and should become cosmopolitan again.

Open Questions

  • What emptied Tradesmalls of dragons and Goliaths before the later peace settlement?
  • What is hidden fifteen miles below Tradesmalls, and how does the Tarnished hideout serve Verdigrim?