Hello, my name is IronGentleGiant also known as "Sham" to certain people. Over the past few months, I have been working on a small village which I call Chapelsfort and am still its a work in progress.
Chapelsfort once was a small trading outpost/ rest stop for travelers and merchants in some distant continent. A long time ago there was a small fort or garrison in the the area which protected local farmers and traveling groups during a period of wars that plagued this distant continent. Farmers and merchants a like often sought refuge inside this fort. As years passed and wars ceased to start, the soldiers of the fort saw no need to protect the locals anymore and decide to abandon post. Due to abandonment, the fort crumbled, fell apart, and became over grown in shrubbery and plant life.
One day a group of Unionist Missionaries were navigating their way through the area in search of a place to build a chapel when suddenly a massive storm appeared on the horizon. The religious group - just like the locals a hundred years earlier - sought shelter inside what was left of the fort from the torrential downpour. All night as lightning clashed and thunder hurled the group prayed and prayed for a sign of relief. The next day the sun came out, the storm went away, and the group celebrated with a religious feast and prayer. As they were preparing to continue on their journey they looked around at the structuring of the fort and came to admonish it. The head of the Unionist Mission decided to proclaim the fort their new chapel and so began a new construction and renovation of the fort in to a place of holy sanctuary.
A hundred more years past and the fort... Well... It no longer looked like a fort, just a small chapel adorned in stone. A small mass of farmers, lumberjacks, and stonemasons settled around the chapel and began to call it their home. Eventually a group of towers were constructed in order to protect the townspeople from raids and bandits. A cartographer mapping out the area found that the town had been built around a small Chapel in a location where a fort once stood. Instead of marking the fort off the an old map he'd been updating, he decided to write "Chapels" right next to the word "fort." That is how the town got its name. He did this not knowing the chapel was built on the very foundations of the old fort.
Chapelsfort once was a small trading outpost/ rest stop for travelers and merchants in some distant continent. A long time ago there was a small fort or garrison in the the area which protected local farmers and traveling groups during a period of wars that plagued this distant continent. Farmers and merchants a like often sought refuge inside this fort. As years passed and wars ceased to start, the soldiers of the fort saw no need to protect the locals anymore and decide to abandon post. Due to abandonment, the fort crumbled, fell apart, and became over grown in shrubbery and plant life.
One day a group of Unionist Missionaries were navigating their way through the area in search of a place to build a chapel when suddenly a massive storm appeared on the horizon. The religious group - just like the locals a hundred years earlier - sought shelter inside what was left of the fort from the torrential downpour. All night as lightning clashed and thunder hurled the group prayed and prayed for a sign of relief. The next day the sun came out, the storm went away, and the group celebrated with a religious feast and prayer. As they were preparing to continue on their journey they looked around at the structuring of the fort and came to admonish it. The head of the Unionist Mission decided to proclaim the fort their new chapel and so began a new construction and renovation of the fort in to a place of holy sanctuary.
A hundred more years past and the fort... Well... It no longer looked like a fort, just a small chapel adorned in stone. A small mass of farmers, lumberjacks, and stonemasons settled around the chapel and began to call it their home. Eventually a group of towers were constructed in order to protect the townspeople from raids and bandits. A cartographer mapping out the area found that the town had been built around a small Chapel in a location where a fort once stood. Instead of marking the fort off the an old map he'd been updating, he decided to write "Chapels" right next to the word "fort." That is how the town got its name. He did this not knowing the chapel was built on the very foundations of the old fort.
