The Montana Marches (3rd edition, 2171 - Travel Bureau of New Benton)

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Valetta is an old and proud city, tracing its foundation to a core of Ancient service buildings from before the Fall. Its name is derived from its founding family, the Valettas, and the position of Alderman has been held by a Valetta ever since.

Uniquely situated, it holds a major position on the main western road of the Marches of the Montana, which leads to New Willapaga, one of the rare ports available on the west coast of the Northern Americas. Combined with its connection to the southern road across the Idaho Gap and the central states of the Union of States, this has created a prosperous hub of commerce and a waypoint for all commercial caravans across the western parts of the March.

With a population of 4931 (2165 AD census), to which one can add over 1100 people in nine farming communities around it, it boasts the sixth-largest city in the Montana, and the largest in the entire western half of the state.

While Valetta is best described as a trade and service city, it also boasts robust industries, with local produces exported across the Marches of the Montana and the entire Union. It is one of the two areas where the fabled Eiswein, a highly prized wine type tracing back to pre-Fall traditional recipes of distant Europe, is produced. The unique product of the Mirosc farming hub is appreciated by connoisseurs all across the Union. Better known is the Ardenworks, one of the foremost metalworks and smithy of the west, whose reputation in the treatment of Ancient Alium is peerless*.

Valetta also boasts of a rich and vibrant cultural and culinary life, with restaurants and inns devoted both to the local and traveling communities. It also has its own printing press – Venters & Sons – and local authors, notably the recluse author of the long-lasting Song of Ice and Mists fantasy series set in the Labyrinth, an alternate version of the Montana where fantastic heroes and sorcerers strive to keep the Kingsport safe from Wendigo hordes pouring from the north**.

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(*) Ardenworks work Alium only on commission for a specific production, owing to the rarity of the metal compared to modern alloys. Please send inquiries to Ardenworks, Valetta, Montana for quotes.

(**) No information on the publishing schedules of the series is available currently. Enquire at your local bookstore for news.