Sogailraugh

Sogailraugh is a 2006 creation of Oscar Rios, and appears in his Dark Ages scenario "A Ring of Toadstools", where it can optionally be used as the foundation for a longer campaign.

Sogailraugh in Cthulhu: Dark Ages

Sogailraugh (the name perhaps translates roughly as "Grey Stone Hill"?) is a fictional Dark-Ages town in mid-western Ireland, in the province of Connacht, in the kingdom (tuath) of Ui Briuin Ai, loosely 100 miles (160km) west of Norse-held city of Dublin.

Sogailraugh is home to about a hundred people (about one third each men, women, and children): a dozen landed families, a few landless renting families, a modest Catholic church, the manor of the local lord (ri tuath) Diarmuid. Eight families have large, prosperous farms (chiefly a variety of crops like wheat, barley, and turnips, as well as livestock like sheep, pigs, and cattle), the rest are craftsmen dwelling in a small central village area.

The village is said by locals to be near a "thin spot" between the moral world and the fairy world of Tir na Nog (The Land of Eternal Youth), and disappearances, strange sounds in the hill, and other disturbances in the area are often blamed on the fairies. A community bonfire is kept lit to protect the town at night.

Day-to-day life in Dark Ages Sogailraugh is largely that of a small but prosperous rural hill community with a local barter economy. The primary language is Gaelic, but about a third of the villagers also speak English, and a few villagers may speak other languages (Norse, Latin, etc.) as well. Village meetings are held in the local lord's hall, and Sunday morning will find virtually all the members of the community in the local church. The church is large and spacious, and its clergy are generally kind, well-educated, and tolerant of the more harmless local traditions (such as fortune-telling, festivals and ceremonies, etc.), as long as they don't strongly challenge the Church. The lord's manor is a fortified structure with defensive towers and walls, which can serve as a shelter if the town should ever come under attack.

Links

• "Halloween Horror 2" Monograph, contains "A Ring of Toadstools" scenario set in the Village of Sogailraugh

Map Key

Key to the map found in the scenario "A Ring of Toadstools", circa A.D. 960:

1. Farm
2. Farm
3. Farm
4. Farm
5. Farm
6. Farm
7. Farm
8. Farm
9. Cottage, Trapper and Hunter
10. Shack
11. Cottage, Charcoal Burner
12. Cottage, Midwife/Healer/Fortune-Teller
13. Shop, Tanner
14. Shop, Bakery
15. Shop, Blacksmith
16. Shop, Pottery & Weavers
17. Church
18. Manor Fort: Lord Diarmuid

References

• "Sogailraugh: An Original Cthulhu Dark Ages Setting", by Oscar Rios, Copyright © 2006 Oscar Rios