Smith's nook

Smith's nook is a small village built around a mile away from a smithy, which in turn is built in the nook of a river and a cliff.

The smithy was first built by a dwarf who came back from the wars in the north, and retired their adventuring days by becoming a blacksmith. Using what he learned by watching the field smiths during the war and his natural instincts, he quickly became one of the best smiths out there.

The smithy lies at the edge of a low granite cliff, right next to a waterfall and a few hundred feet from the main road, obscured by a bend in the cliffside. The waterfall itself drives a waterwheel, which in turn drives both a large hammering mechanism, a whetstone and the bellows of the forge. The sound of the waterfall tends to drown out most of the forge, other than hammers on anvils, several of both around.

The village was built later after the first farm was set up it just kind of grew from a farmstead to a small gathering of houses all the way up to a large community and eventually into a village where most people know eachother, at least by name.