Overwash

Overwash (S."Ardalmar") was a village of some thirty households, and was the sole settlement on the fen and moorland between the Slough and the Midden. Built with wood. the village sat atop a raised mound. Its houses sat on stilts, for flooding presented a constant danger. During very bad floods, all the goods were packed up and the houses coverted into rafts, to be floated off to, Amon Eren, the sole hill within Ethir Onodlo (which lay about six miles north of the village).

Half the villagers were herders and half hunters and fishers. The herders kept flocks of sturdy sheep in the poor grazing lands, these sheep actually flourishing and producing excellent lamb and mutton as well as plentiful wool. Seeking fur and game in season, the hunters spent the rest of the year fishing for eels, perch and loach. Each year, thousands of eels migrated through the marshlands to breed upstream. then retum accompanied by manifold the number of elvers (young eels).

In TA 1640
The current headman is Mardo Hall (Mardo the Tall) an egotistical trapper who bullied the last headman into nominating him. No one has since dared to oppose him. Few are gravely concemed thus far, but he does not treat the Emerhim (S. "Shepherds") well. Mardo is very aware of his own skills and prowess, and with some justification, for he is a big, strong man. He has a timid wife and has been known to force himself on any other woman he fancies. The villagers here speak a very broad and accented Westron, and can be difficult to understand.