Once Osbern Bucci finished welcoming Darian to his new Barony it was the turn of someone else to do so. Linus Sedwell was the Mayor of Yasia Town, a weaver by trade he had held the position for six of the last ten years, his term was up in two months and he wasn't expected to be re-elected. He welcomed Darian to his new Barony on behalf of all the residents of Yasia Town and wished him a prosperous and successful rule.
Darian was then introduced to five knights and ten yeomen who held land from the Barony. They were followed by the baronial sheriff, the Constable of Yasia Castle, two of the Barony's administrators and finally the Reeve's of the four villages in the Barony under his direct control.
Once all the introductions were made and Darian got to speak to everyone about one thing or another
the now greatly enlarged party organised themselves as best they could and headed in the direction of Yasia Town. They managed to reach the town well before nightfall, around 4 o'clock. Every so often during the journey, the road would be lined with the residents of the Barony hoping for a look at their new Baron. Whenever this happened Darian would halt the party for a few minutes and make a quick speech thanking everyone present for coming to do so and promising them he would do his best to make the Barony even more successful than it already was.
Yasia Town wasn't much more than an overly large walled village with only a population of slightly more than 600. Sure the wall was made of stone, not wood but it was only two-metre tall and wouldn't survive long against even a small yet relatively determined attacking force. The last time the town was attacked by a single shipload of pirates from the Teorumian Celeste Islands just under seventy years it hadn't even lasted a single day. It wasn't by any means the least defensible of the Islands towns but other than replacing the destroyed parts of the wall the Barons since that time hadn't spent any money improving it. Thankfully the days of the Teorum Empire Pirate Lords had ended shortly after that attack and as of yet, they had shown no sign of resuming.
It had started as and in many ways still was a small fishing village, one of the two that existed in the Barony at that time. Back then 125 years ago the Barony's main settlement was up in the hills near were the village of Taisia now stands. An earthquake had seen to it, the entire Baronial family and a good part of its inhabitants. Rather than rebuilding it in the same place the new Baron, a distant relative of the previous one had set about looking for a new site. Not wanting to start completely from scratch he knocked down the small keep in what was then the village of Seacrest, renamed it after the destroyed settlement of Yasia, built the present castle and replaced the villages smaller wooden walls with the current stone ones.
The town's fishing fleet which operated from the port just outside the town wall currently numbered 12 different ships of various sizes. It went out in all weathers and a decade didn't pass without one of them being lost at sea, usually with no or very few survivors.
Other than fishing the main industry of the town was weaving the wool produced from the Visarit, which could be best described as a cross between a mountain goat and an ant. They were reared all over the Island and while Yasia Town could in no way be considered the centre of the weaving industry on the island it produces some of the finest cloth to be found there.
The town is also the only place on the island or anywhere else for that matter allowed to trade with the Nolian Islanders. This meant that it served as the middleman in any trade between them and the outside world. Buying the products produced by them, selling them on to others and acquiring for them those things, mainly luxuries that they did not themselves produce.
There were only two gates in the town wall one facing the sea and the other at the opposite side, they were both manned at all times by at least two if not four guards and except at times of emergency they were kept open during the daylight hours and closed at night. Yasia Castle wasn't situated on the side of the town facing the sea or the opposite side as you might suspect but rather in the middle. To reach it from outside the town you had to enter through one of the gates and make your way to the castle gatehouse situated on the east side of the town next to the town square where a market was held every other day.