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-**Ainsun** is a town and a region in Alfheim.
+**Ainsun** is a town and a region in [[alfheim|Alfheim]].
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 Ainsun is the heart of Clan Grunalf's (Laigrenelas in old elvish) territory.  This clan (numbering slightly less than 3,000) are highly skilled trackers and monster hunters.  The Ainsun region encompasses the northern most part of Alfheim and the Canolbarth forest.  It is a region of dense forest like most of the Canolbarth.  The most prominent feature in this part of the Canolbarth forest, aside from the modest town of Ainsun, is the Black Lake.  Though not large by most standards, it is the largest lake in Alfheim.  It is caused by a natural dam about 15 miles north of Ainsun, blocking up the flow of the Black river draining from the Black Hills to the north-west.  From there the river flows on south past Ainsun and joins the river of Monsters about 8 miles south of Ainsun.  The River of Monsters drains from the foothills of the Dwarfgate Mountains to the North-East along the Ainsun-Mealidor dividing range, then runs east-West across Ainsun before heading south and draining into Elleromyr and the sump.  It is so named because it runs along on the bad magic points of Alfheim, Thornbush South-East of Ainsun, from which monsters routinely emerge.  However Ainsun is not just a region of Bad magic points, for it also encompasses two Good Magic Points: Misthaven (along the River of Monsters near the North-Eastern extremity) and Dew Drop (Also along the River of Monsters South-West of Ainsun).
-Neighbors: To the south of Ainsun the Canolbarth (and Alfheim) spreads out, Mealidor to the South-East, Desnae to the South, and Elleromyr to the South-West.  To the West is the North-Eastern corner of the Streel Plain, and the Darokinian fort of Fort Nell is only 8 miles from the forests edge.  To the North-West lie the Black hills, the first 16 to 24 miles is sparsely settled by a few darokinian farmers and hamlets, beyond which lies the Broken Lands, from whichi humanoid raids are a constant threat.  To the north a narrow ridge of the Dwarfgate Mountains makes travel to the Ethengarian steppes hazardous (not to mention the areas of the broken lands along the edge of that narrow route), though it is possible by sheltering in the isolated Darokinian communities at night.  The biggest threat to Ainsun would be the trolls of C'Kag to the North-East, as they often raid out of there strongholds in the High Dwarfgate Mountains.
+Neighbors: To the south of Ainsun the Canolbarth (and Alfheim) spreads out, Mealidor to the South-East, [[desnae]] to the South, and Elleromyr to the South-West.  To the West is the North-Eastern corner of the Streel Plain, and the [[darokin|Darokinian]] fort of Fort Nell is only 8 miles from the forests edge.  To the North-West lie the Black hills, the first 16 to 24 miles is sparsely settled by a few darokinian farmers and hamlets, beyond which lies the Broken Lands, from whichi humanoid raids are a constant threat.  To the north a narrow ridge of the Dwarfgate Mountains makes travel to the Ethengarian steppes hazardous (not to mention the areas of the broken lands along the edge of that narrow route), though it is possible by sheltering in the isolated Darokinian communities at night.  The biggest threat to Ainsun would be the trolls of C'Kag to the North-East, as they often raid out of there strongholds in the High Dwarfgate Mountains.
 Law: King Doriath, in his adventuring days, joined in many of Clan Grunalf's monster hunts in this area and knows the area very well.  Clan Grunalf has long been strongly behind Doriath and he and Grunalf's clan master Durifern Widefarer used to be friends in there adventuring days, though both have found the burden and duties of rulership have left no time for there friendship, and they have grown apart and so are not as close as they once were, though both trust and support the other.  Doriath and Durifern both enjoy widespread popularity in Ainsun.  Many adventurers from the other clans live in Ainsun, drawn there to partake in the monster hunts.