Lissen Carak

Lissen Carak is a major town in the north of the kingdom of Alba. The city is surrounded by rich farmland and outlying village. It is on the north bank of the Cohocton River and has a fortified bridge over the river. To the north of the cities hinterland are the Adnacrags, two hundred leagues of dense mountains.

The town is named after the fortress abbey nunnery that caps a high ridge. The nunnery is led by the Abbess, and has some sixty nuns and sixty novices.

The town has a important great Spring market fair every year. Merchants and drovers travel from all over Alba, to trade at the fair, and buy the local supply of grain.

The abbey itself is truly a fortress with high sheer stone walls and towers at each corner. The courtyard within is thirty paces across, as big as any castle. The fortress contains a church, stables, and the central monastery itself.

Some two hundred year ago Lissen Carak was a place of the Wild, of the Qwethnethog. The creatures of the Wild call it the Rock. It contains a well of great magical power. The people of Alba extended their domain, pushing back the Wild. The well still remains beneath the abbey.