Crofton

Crofton is a medium sized city of men that is carved into the great mountain known as Croft Mountain, supposedly named after the Croft family, who were an aristocratic family who brought the land and built the now derelict and supposedly haunted Croft Manor. The original name of the city was once literally On Croft, but mutated to Croft-On over time and eventually became Crofton. It lies on the far west of Anadara, Mt Croft being part of the mountain range in the northern parts of the shattered west, and is a proud mining city, drawing minerals from the rich deposits of Gold and rare gems in the mountainside. These deposits have made it prosperous, but if the gold ran out then the cities economy would quickly decay and Crofton would become a shadow of its former self
Crofton is also the origin point of many of the Stone Charms. Often having the mark of Orfai carved into them, there is a fair market for them among the more superstitious of the lower class who purchase them in the hopes that it will bring a change to improve their lives. Its a gamble, however, for while some genuinely benefit, there are more owners who face changes for the worst, some who die and some which do nothing at all or make so little a change its near impossible to notice. They are known to be used by some Travellers, again with varying results, and are sometimes exported from Crofton due to them being cheap to make from the mountain stone, and sold to the poor around the shattered west
Five years ago, a famine struck the town as the crops mysteriously withered and died over night. The Order of the Aether, in their usual zealous manner, claimed that a witch, acting as an agent of the Princes of Ruin, must have placed a curse on them. This began a witch hunt, and may old widowed women were killed out of fear. The witch hujt lasted fifteen days and nights, before the City Guards finally put a stop to it on the orders of William the Vast.
Its current ruler, William the Vast, is a massive mountain of a man who, despite his appearance, is fair and just to his subjects. He rules from the towns Keep, built within the mountain with an elaborate entrance hall. The famine claimed his wife, it is just him and his daughter now.
The Coat of Arms for Crofton is a mountain with two crossed pick axes overlain on it on a backdrop of golden yeloe This appears on the shields of the towns guard and army. Croftons national colour is golden yellow and its people are highly superstitious and fearful of magic. As such, magic is shunned in Crofton, and the Order of the Aether have set up an Abbey here, feeding off the peoples fear. Croftons reputation among magic users has suffered from both its anti magic stance and the activities of the Order of the Aether, and as a result the city has a lack of magical practices, ironically weakening its defense against the more malevolent magic users it fears so much.