Axton is the nearest settlement to Melphïne along the Kingsroad, laying some 40 easy miles north of the capital through patrolled forests and rolling riverside glens. During the Feral Age, the town known as Axton did not exist; it was merely a fortress-lookout bearing that name seated atop a natural spur of rock and manned by the Vinheld.
When the dust settled after the "temporal bubble" burst, the lands over which the now ruined structure brood were bequeathed to a knight for his valiance and leadership during the conflict of the Feral wars. His descendants have since abandoned any hope of restoring the imposing ruin, instead building a modest walled tower keep further down the same slope of stone. Around it, the trading, farming and milling town of Axton grew.