To buy time and to waste time (I'm going to get fired some day), I'm going to give you some back history of the area you are from.
Then, if you don't mind and if you are an Elf or a Dwarf, tell us how you made your way to this town. If you are a human, you can be a native of the town or from another local. In either case, and for what ever reason, you now live in...
The Village of Habbendale.
Nestled along a sharpe curve in the River Fen, the village called Habbendale is the primary tradeing town between the Antheerian Empire and the Savage East, the common name for the mostly unexplored wilderness at the edge of the known world.
Although there are a few out-posts and even smaller villages farther east, Habbendale is the last place along the King's Expanse Highway that would really be called "civilized".
It is a moderatele sized town with a population of about 400, and comprised of about 100 or so buildings.
Most of the town's comerace comes from the timber and fur trade. The smaller towns and post's farther east send the goods down-river to Habbendale, where it is then sent along the King's Expanse to the civilized western towns and cities.
Habbendale also serves as a link between the Dwarves of the northeastern Brekfol mountains and human-kind. The Dwarves do bring in a fair amount of steel and gold goods for trade, but not nearly as much as the Dwarven clans of the Kirteeg mountains in the west.
Habbendale is about 100 years old, having been founded by the great Antherian explorer Michael Habben. The government consists of a single noble governer, apointed by the royal house of Antheer and not subject to change.
Under the govener are 3 magistrates who serve as a combination of sherif and judge. There are also about 20 guardsmen and constables that patrol the city and make up a militia, although the local populace can be pressed into serving the militia in times of crisis, such as the attacks by the wild Anwarnin Elves from the south around 25 years ago.
As of right now, Habbendale is at peace. Trade is good and there does not seem to be any outward threat to the locals.
But, news from the smaller communities farther east have been trickling in, and they speak of a great and ancient evil in the Brekfol mountains...