The primary Sigmarite city founded within the Wildmane Gorge, Jaegerburg offers a haven of relative safety. Its markets bustle with trappers and tanners selling their wares, the main export goods from the settlement being skins, leathers and dried meats. Excelsis is an important market for exports and for luxury goods that are not common in Wildmane Gorge. Glimmerings are especially sought after.
The city was founded near the end of the Realmgate Wars, though records of this time are sketchy at best. There are legends of ghosts and spirits that the inhabitants use to scare children to bed, which suggests that the city was well established before the Soul Wars began.
There is a very sizeable number of Wanderers who call the city home, along with humans and Duardin.
The coat of arms of the city can be described: Gules, one arrow shafted Or, on a chief Argent one hunting horn Or. The bow represents the patience and subtlety required of the hunter, whether to find food or defend your home. It also relates to the favoured weapon of the majority. The horn symbolising that the city is not alone.
The Gnarloak Tavern is known to be the best place to get a drink, eat or otherwise meet with friends and acquaintances anywhere in the city. The most commonly requested meal is Grapplerfish Pie. Grapplerfish being barbed and tentacled aquatic animals fished from the nearby Gorskull River. Delicious they say…
As other Sigmarite cities, Jaegerburg boasts a Freeguild regiment “The Jaegers”. Because the background of the majority of the population is in the trapping/hunting industry, the Jaegers are principally a skirmish/guerrilla force of archers, marksmen and trap layers. The city does not typically rely on massed ranks of polearm infantry, rather opting to delay, harass and reroute attempts to attack the city. The substantial Aelven section of the city were instrumental in this during the early development of the city, providing training and volunteers to the regiment.
It is a standard Sigmarite city, with an understanding for the Sylvaneth. There is not yet an established Stormhold nor Stormhost as of yet. There are many Astral Templars that have been known to visit the city, some even referring to it as “home”. The citizens think very highly of the Templars and wonder when they will have a Stormhost of their own to match them in valour and honour.
Many Jaegerburgers would point to the only piece of monumental architecture in the city, or at least the only piece still standing. The Ghal Mharaz Coliseum, Skull Splitter Arena to the locals, is a major source of entertainment and also training. Teams of hunters take on captive beasts and monsters in combat, whilst perfecting the skills that have helped build and protect the city for centuries.
Failure isn’t a word used much in Ghur, as long as you’re still alive that is. However, the events of the Red Pit are what comes to mind.
Sigmar is revered in first place and often stylized in the form of The Great Sky Hunter, often a bird of prey, that dives down from on high to hunt. However, alongside him, Kurnoth has been a traditional deity for worship and offerings, both before and after hunting expeditions. Duardin smiths maintain Grungnite shrines throughout the industrial quarter. The other gods are not followed in any significant way, other than by recent immigrants.
The city has been spared much of the destruction wrought by Kragnos’s recent awakening. News of the siege of Excelsis only reached Wildmane Gorge several months after the event. However, the greenskin warbands that prowl the northern reaches of the region have become decidedly more restless and have begun encroaching on the city’s territory much more often…
