Ludwig

The launching point for the first proper intercontinental exploration mission. Ludwig's whaling ships proved worthy enough to survive the trip but the ocean conditions were unfortunately not in the crews favour. Ludwig has a peaceful and humble upbringing that was the result of good coincidence.

Origins
Along the coast between the Robertian capital of Sondergard and the farming city of Leifen lies the town of Ludwig. The town itself sprouted as farming village at the midpoint of the two cities. Some say two migrating families, both Sondergard and Leifen bound and both in search of jobs in either the big cities or farming grounds, had bumped into each other and decided to set up camp for the night. It turns out the family from Leifen had among them a couple of skilled farmers who had been harshly taxed by an earl with insane quotas so they decided to start life new elsewhere. The family from Sondergard had an aspiring blacksmith who was driven out of business due to the sexist stereotypes that influenced buyers to have more trust in well renowned male blacksmiths. This crippled her chances of succeeding. Her husband, who was a fisherman, wanted to take her and the family to a smaller market where she could show off her talents and get revenge on her male competition by getting some respect to her name. She sold the excess of weapons and tools she had made for cheap and used it to buy food for the trip. Her husband preserved his excess of fish and then they were off on their merry way. By good coincidence the two families met in the middle and spent the night socialising with one another. They would discuss their origins, journey, occupation and desires. The kids of the families had made good friends with each other. It was decided that the families had been gifted by the gods and that it was in their best interest to stay. The soil was arable for crops, the fish were untouched and the trees had been cleared in the field in which they camped and two perfect casts of villagers with essential professions had come together by chance. If it was clear that this happened by no chance and by the blessing of the gods. The first order of business was to drag a massive stone to the centre of the camp and carve out a rune stone marking the names of all the settlers by age from top to bottom.

Name Origin
The town is named after the first Jarl's son and daughter. It was his dying wish to mash the names Luden and Wiggi to form what is now known as Ludwig since the town had gone all that time without proper identification.