Stormglen Village

Stormglen Village is a small Gilnean fishing town along the southeastern coast of the Kingdom of Gilneas. It is directly to the south of the town of Tempest's Reach and the Blackwald can be found to the northwest.

Government
Stormglen has had a recent change in governmental rule. House Greymane replaced the old mayor and a priest from Lordaeron was put in his place. This has lead to a very religious based rule. Their acting Priest is also their acting mayor. This works well for the town, as its steeped in worship of the Light, so a religious and political melding does not bother its citizenry. In fact, if you take the time to talk to many of it’s people, it seem most actually prefer the new organization over the old.

This has had some interest social and political ramifications for the town and its people. Without its strong political support from House Greymane and its allies, Stormglen’s voice about the Light would be lost on many of the Gilnean citizenry. But with the backing of House Greymane and it has become a significant part of the political landscape.

Social Structure
Stormglen’s social structure is based as much in Light based worship as its governmental policies. While the Light does preach equality, most females are expected to be in support roles to the male authority. The <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">town has never had a female leader, and men hold most significant <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">positions of power. That is not to say that the voice of its female <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">population is drowned out. It is also not to be misconstrued that a <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">female could not do these things, they most likely could, but there is a <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">social pressure that might be accredited with the reason as to why they <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">have not.

<span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">Other than that, Stormglen’s social structure is fairly casual. There <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">are no real strong divisions between upper, middle, and lower classes. <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">Everyone shares equal power in the view of the Light, so everyone shares <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">equal powers in terms of the social structure of Stormglen. This has lead <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">to quite a harmonious relationship. Overall, Stormglen has very little <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">violence and maintains itself with a quiet collectedness. While it is not <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">the oldest town in Gilneas, it might be considered the most mature.

Local Nationalism
<span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">Stormglen tends to be one of the rare exceptions to the rule. Perhaps due <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">to its citizens originally migrating from Lordaeron, Stormglen’s <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">national identity has always been somewhat of a debate for scholars the <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">world over.

<span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">If one had to make a statement on Stormglen’s sense of nationality, it <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">would be that Stormglen has one, but does not embrace it. This is mainly <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">due to the profound existence of Light based worship. Stormglens identity <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">is the Light, it is one they have embraced whole-heartedly and this <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">supersedes any national identity they may posses. They are Light <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">worshippers in their own eyes. That is what matters to them.

Economy
<span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">The economy of Stormglen is fairly cut and dry. They make a decent living <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">providing wood from the forest to their North and provide most of <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">Gilneas’ coal requirements from out of a local mine. This has kept the <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">people of Stormglen wealthy, but not excessively so.

<span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">This does not mean that citizens of Stormglen do not have money to spend. <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">Many citizens chose to save their money and spend it on items of extreme <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">luxury, usually in some relation to the light. Perhaps the two biggest <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">commodities bought and sold in Stormglen are wedding dresses and coffins.

<span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">Stormglen’s wedding dresses are often considered to be some of the best <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">made and elaborate in all of Azeroth. Nobles in each of the main cities <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">have been known to travel to Stromglen just for this reason alone. <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">Commissioning a dress, however, is not cheap, and this pumps much needed <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">foreign coin into the economy. Before the wall it did, anyway.

<span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">Due to its steeped traditions in the Light, death is also a significant <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">part of the social scene. It is a time of somber celebration and honoring <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">the dead. The coffins made in Stormglen are some of the most detailed <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">works of metal and wood you’ll ever see. A man who visited Stormglen <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">from Lordaeron claimed that he had never seen such art and questioned the <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">sanity of the Stormglen population for throwing it in the ground.

Military
<span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">Stomglen has a very small military when compared to another Gilnean town <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">such as Tempest’s Reach. It maintains a set of paladins in the Church <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">who are charged with protecting the town, but other than that, their <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">military forces are non-existent. This has not harmed the town in any <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">way, as its political power and support from House Greymane have <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">protected it from hostile actions from other parts of Gilneas. No one <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">would dare attack Stormglen for fear of the terrible retribution they <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">would receive.

Crime
<span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">Due to a variety of reasons Stormglen as virtually no crime. This can be <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">traced back to its traditions of Light based worship, which is heavily <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">against such amoral actions, as well as its economic wealth displacement, <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">and absence of social classes. There is no resentment from the lower <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">class of the upper class, because there is no lower and upper class. The <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">wealth in Stormglen is rather evenly dispersed among its population. This <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">has eliminated the need for anything more than a Nigthwatch, which <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">consists of volunteers from the town population. Stormglen boasts the <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">lowest crime rate in all of Gilneas.

Clothing
<span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">Clothing in Stormglen is amazingly plain. It is simple and made for <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">functionality. The town gets a nice breeze from off the cliffs and ocean, <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">so it is generally a comfortable 60 degrees. Thick wool garments and <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">leather is common among its workers for the protection they give while <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">mining or woodworking, but lighter fabrics such as linin or cotton are <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">the base for most of their day-to-day clothing.

<span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">Their wedding dresses are, of course, an exception to this and are almost <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">always made of rare clothes such as Silk, Mageweave, Runecloth, and other <span style="color:rgb(239,201,160);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20.390625px;">expensive fabrics.