As in any small town, rumors are hot commodities in both workyards and taprooms. Some of the current cycle of news and popular gossip includes the following.
Boss Orc-Blood: Boss Teedum's piggish nose is said to be the result of orc blood in his background. Teedum's response to these rumors varies. When he's in a black mood,he pummels the speaker,but if he's feeling gleeful, he laughs and claims that his grandmother seduced an orc that took her fancy.
The Brookman Belle: Amanor, an evil nixie, lives in Brookman's Well. Most of the time she merely watches the people who come to draw water, but now and then she marks someone. Each time she does,the marked person vanishes shortly thereafter. People say that the mark varies, but it's always as a rash seen after drinking the water.
The Cutyard Queen: Thuldrin Kreed has a secret mistress out in the woods, a fey queen who teaches him timeless secrets and truly wicked pleasures beneath the full moon, in exchange for woodwork made to her unearthly designs. Kreed ventures out alone for these trysts, without the otherwise near-constant presence of his bodyguards.
The Lost Larkos: The Larkos are dead, but not gone. Their burned and twisted corpses washed up in a marshy patch of forest deep in Darkmoon Woods. Now they skulk in the swamp, howling into the trees and swearing vengeance against Kreed and all of the town's inhabitants.
Murdered Mother: Sharvaros Vade engages in strange necromantic experiments in his tower. He keeps the desiccated corpse of his murdered mother hanging from hooks up there, where her raspy cackles can be heard
echoing through the lumber piles on quiet nights.Some say Vade toils around the clock to restore her to true life.