Falcon's Hollow is a relatively young town-only 140 years old-but in that time, it's had more than its fair share of tragic events and violent conflicts with monstrous neighbors. Tales of these events are passed on from one generation of old-timers to the next, cobbled together from "sawing dust" (chatting in the cutyards) or "blowing cinders" (telling tales around a hearth fire at Jack-a'-Napes, the Sitting Duck, or one of the other inns and taverns around Falcon's Hollow).
Founded around 4573 A R, Falcon's Hollow began as the latest in a long series of settlements hastily erected by the Lumber Consortium. Unlike its predecessor, Falconridge, Falcon's Hollow successfully clung to its existence in the face of wild beasts, dark things from deep within the Vale, and other desperate trials.
The survival of Falcon's Hollow is a testament to the steely resolve of it s three founding families: the taciturn Larko clan, the brave Samkils , and the brutal Kreeds. These bone-hard folk weathered the HarpyHag Massacre of 4603, finally ending that conflict by marrying a Larko son off to one of the hag Ulizmila's seemingly innumerable daughters.
The decade-long period known as the Misery (463 1-4641) claimed most of the children of Falcon's Hollow, before coming to a close when the attic whisperer responsible was found by Balkri Kreed and promptly dismembered by her furious hands -though not before it claimed the final breath of her son Talin, the last of an entire generation of the three families to be snuffed out in their crib s .
The Hobgoblin Strife of 4679 claimed the last living scion of the Samkil family, though more than a few oldtimers insist that the crossbow bolt buried in young Jebrika Samkil's back bore a suspicious resemblance to those used by Thalsin Kreed, Thuldrin Kreed's father. Most of the surviving citizens from that time bear scars from this savage contest over the region's darkwood groves .
In 4701, the Falcon's Feud concluded with the eradication (by mass burning) of the Larko clan, most of whom had become "unnatural folk" - changelings and worse - thanks to their ties to the hags of the Vale's deepest wilds. Many townsfolk from that time cast their eyes downward when speaking of those events, uncomfortable with the tragic irony of this thread in their town's history: the Larko family was the one to step up and sacrifice their eldest son to marriage with a hag's daughter to ensure the community's survival, and the same neighbors his sacrifice saved would eventually seize upon that tainted bloodline as cause for wiping out the family. Along with the end of the Samkil line at Jebrika Samkil's death a few decades before, the extermination of the Larkos left Thuldrin Kreed and his son Jurin as the only surviving descendants of the original founding families, and the sole owners of the whole region's Lumber Consortium chopping rights.
In more recent years, leprosy arrived at Falcon's Hollow; around one in 10 of the residents have contracted the wasting disease, most developing it late in life rather than exhibiting effects at birth. A leper colony has sprung up on the edge of town, occupying an abandoned cutyard and log house and providing a refuge for those chased from the town by residents afraid of contracting the affliction.
The Night of Silver Blood werewolf attacks in 4712 left Falcon's Hollow largely untouched, though the orphanage, Elara's Halfway House, burned down shortly thereafter under dubious circumstances .