Anvil

Anvil
Geography
Type	Settlement
Region	The Pagan Plains, northwestern Allansia
Society
Races	Humans
Politics

Anvil is a small village in the Pagan Plains in northwestern Allansia.

Anvil was the village that the player spent several days at before heading to the base of Firetop Mountain in the The Warlock of Firetop Mountain. The local peasants tell the player stories of many adventures passing through their little village and never returning , they also pass on little bits of information that adventurers that returned half completing their quests to get the treasures of the mountain which are very useful to the player later on in the book.

Location

Anvil is situated north of Firetop Mountain. The village is situated on a road running between Stonebridge and Fang.

Notable Buildings

Drinking establishments in Anvil include The Two Moons tavern and Hullgrim's Alehouse. At only two day's walk from Firetop Mountain, the people of Anvil live in fear of the Warlock who is said to live within, and it is from Anvil that many foolish adventurers have set off to enter the dungeon under that mountain.

Zagor

For years, Zagor inflicted terror on the unfortunate people of Anvil. Zagor was finally killed by an adventurer. The reign of terror inflicted on Anvil by Zagor, the Warlock of Firetop Mountain, reached its peak ten years after an adventurer claimed to have killed the Evil Warlock. After a decade of peace, the red top of Firetop Mountain turned a deathly black, livestock sickened and died, and villagers from Anvil began to disappear. It is claimed that these villagers were abducted by "hideous creatures of the night", and that Zagor was building himself a new body, bit by bit, from these unfortunate victims!

Anvil, Gilford and Haven

Although Anvil is not named as the village in which YOU start your quest in the original text of The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, the text in Warlock Issue 1 and Return to Firetop Mountain leave us in no doubt that this unnamed village was in fact Anvil.

Curiously, this "unnamed" village received the name "Gilford" in the Myriador conversion of The Warlock of Firetop Mountain.

In the map accompanying the Myriador conversion, Anvil is set west of Firetop Mountain while Gilford appears to be closer and to the north.

The "unnamed" village was named "Haven" in the The Salamonis Gazette, perhaps because the authors had missed the identification of this village in Warlock and Return to Firetop Mountain.

In the The Warlock of Firetop Mountain RPG adventure, Anvil is described as the largest of three villages near Firetop Mountain, with Gilford and Haven being the other two.

Appendix

Gallery

The home of Mystic Mary in Anvil.

Appearances

Adventures

• Return to Firetop Mountain
• Shadow of the Giants
• The Warlock of Firetop Mountain (AFF)
• The Warlock of Firetop Mountain (book)