Matsumoto

Fields of wheat and poppies dot the landscape as far as you can see, and as you ride for the main road, you notice the different colors being worn by the workers in the field and more prominently, the giant stag head on the backs of all of their uniforms. Heads turn as you pass, and you think you see a flash of disdain in the eyes of these workers as they notice that your party is comprised mostly of foreigners to the region. Some elves clad in brown leather appear to be overseeing the field workers, and they ride up and down the ranks on elks, stopping occasionally to bark something in Elven. The overseers all greet you with a nod and a smile, but you don’t feel like this is a particularly hospitable region. Perhaps it’s the crossbows that they’re all carrying.

Here and there you see tethered elk and elk roaming free, almost like grazing animals. You can smell the hogs before you see them, and you’re forced to pull up short when a stampede of hogs crosses from one golden pasture to another across the road. Their handler doesn’t spare you a glance, and you’re not sure if it’s a trick of the light but the hogs have what you can only describe as a malevolent sheen to them. The hogs and the elk are noisy, but this seems to be par for the course - everyone works uninterrupted, and the soft Elvish murmuring of the workers is unceasing as they toil away in the fields.

After about two hours of riding, you start to see what looks like a small township. The road is well-trodden, judging by the hoofmarks and the fact that it’s a decently busy thoroughfare. This is probably the main road out of the South, and a large wooden sign greets you instead of the heraldry that you’re used to: Matsumoto. You see some tieflings scattered around, mostly in laborer’s clothing, but almost everyone is an elf.

Other notable establishments:
The site of an infernal summoning ritual is slowly being rebuilt by Andras Quillson and help from the Guild. A ruin of its former self, it's a solemn reminder to many who live in the town. Ever wanted to know how a hedgehog gets prepped and killed in a meatpacking plant? Probably not, but the friendly gals here will tell you anyway. This dude makes weapons, takes bribes, and eats hog. This chick makes fancy as fuck clothes, is a lil bougie, and was once a raging elven supremacist. Now, she mostly makes said clothes. Good luck finding meat here that isn't hog. But if you want all sorts of general goods, then there's no place else you'd rather be.
 * The Quillson Mansion (destroyed)
 * The Matsumoto Information Centre
 * The Weaponsmith
 * The Tailor
 * The Matsumoto Markets