[Gauls]

With its back to the foothills of the Khardran range, the Draelmar Hold was a glorified fort from eras past. It had always held some force or an other and that led to a steady deteriorating of the state of the hold. So many wanted its protection but none wanted to spend the coin to repair what so many had neglected. Never the less, the fortified hold stood watching over the traders of the Narim / Taralon trade route era after era. It was the last friendly stop before hazarding the route along Ire's southern patrol zone. Countless times the forces stationed at the hold at various times would be called upon to come and rescue merchants or foolish travelers that went into orkish controlled areas for what ever reason.

The garrison had always been the rage-tag group of mercs or private paid guards that used the hold to stage their operations but now the hold was being used by a professional force. The Sherian troops that now made up the garrison had moved in recently and nicely sent the mercs and other filth that were taking anything of value the hold contained out. It was in a state of disrepair but not anything that a little time and resources could not fix.

The walls of the fort were made of stone ramparts (4 ft high) with a 10 foot tall wood wall with platforms at even spaced intervals along it. The double doors leading into the hold compound were heavy wood reinforced with iron bands. The mechanism that used to open and close the doors no longer worked but the heavy doors could still be opened and shut manually. The inner compound was dirt and flat. In the center of the enclosed compound was a stone structure that looked like a keep with the top chopped off. The former stone ceiling it had was now made of wood which leaked terribly when it rained and could fall in any day. This keep was 3 story high with open windows. Inside the inner compound were some wood structures; a small stable surrounded by a low fence, a one story wood building that served as a bunk house, a row of four latrines, and three small sheds that housed food stuffs.

All of these buildings were spread over the large enclosure that made up the inner compound and so the hold itself didn't look like much at a glance. The hold used to be the home of some rich patrician but now it housed the command staff of a Provincial Army.