Germelshausen

Throughout the First Interregnum, Germelshausen was just a typical highland village. Their quaint settlement on the hill could be seen for miles around. Folks worked in the mines or on the farm, they drank in the pub or on their front porches, and they prayed in the church or at the town’s wishing well.

It was only as The Seven Voices prepared to sing the next iteration of reality into existence that the people of Germelshausen made the bargain which would change everything. Realizing that only halflings would be allowed to remain in Eden after the reboot (thanks to that species’ deal with the Sister Goddesses), the villagers of Germelshausen prayed to the goddess of fire and chaos and asked her for a miracle. They didn’t want to go back to their lives in the so-called “real world.” They wanted to stay in paradise.

Phina, eager to stick it to her sister Mira—and also, as always, to cause a bit of trouble—happily acquiesced to the villagers’ request. She wrapped the town in a protective cocoon of magic, made a show of “burning” the place to the ground, and then rejoined her sister in the The Desert at the Edge of Existence to watch The Seven Voices do their thing and recreate the world.

It wasn’t until a decade later, when Germelshausen reappeared out of nowhere in a flash of flame—when humans and dwarves stepped back into this land where they weren’t meant to be—that Phina turned to Mira and said, “Oh, by the way…”