Hardbuckler
Village in The Reaching Woods, The Western Heartlands
Hardbuckler is a walled town of rock gnomes on the Dusk Road in the Western Heartlands, a favourite stop for traders and known for its locks and crates.
Behind sturdy walls, slate-roofed stone cottages tumble together in no order at all, goats wander the lanes, and every cellar hides another level of gnomish ingenuity.
Hardbuckler at a glance
- Type & size
- Fortified gnome town, About 2,000
- Allegiance & rule
- Allegiance: Independent
- People & culture
- Almost entirely rock gnomes, with a few humans, halflings and half-elves; cheerful, tidy and industrious
- Key exports & trade
- Locks
- Wooden crates
- Wax for sealing seams
Overview
Hardbuckler lies on the Dusk Road between Triel and Hill's Edge, south of the Northdark Wood and the Trielta Hills and just north of the Reaching Woods. On our map, a road links it to Elturel.
The town is famous for being happy, clean and prosperous. Its small stone cottages each have a garden and a deep, many-levelled cellar with storerooms, mushroom caves and hand-cranked lifts. Gnomish settlements across Faerûn are linked by a magical network called the Trail of Mists, and Hardbuckler is one of them.
At the table
- A Hardbuckler locksmith wants her newest lock tested by someone who can really pick locks, and the prize is generous.
On the map
Roads from Hardbuckler
- ElturelRoad · 185 mi
Regions nearby
- The Reaching WoodsForest · Hardbuckler lies within it
- Trielta HillsHills · ~2 mi east
- Northdark WoodForest · ~26 mi north-east
Nearby places
- TrielVillage · ~81 mi
- SoubarVillage · ~97 mi
- ScornubelCity · ~101 mi
- DarkholdRuin · ~136 mi
- ElturelCity · ~154 mi
- Ss'thar'tiss'ssunRuin · ~157 mi
Distances as the crow flies, measured on our map.