The locals call Otari Mill the Giant's Wheel after its towering waterwheel, thirty feet across. Logs arrive from the forest by flume, and the wheel needs every foot to drive the treadmill that lifts them into the loading flume and to keep the saws running inside the mill. The mill belongs to the Menhemes family, but the other two lumber companies pay to have their timber cut here too. The grinding of the wheel, the whine of the saws and the clatter of the loading ramp carry down into town even at night.
The day-to-day running of the mill falls to its foreman, Klorte Hengus, a heavily scarred half-orc who fought in Absalom's Irorium with paired hatchets as "the Lumberjacker". He considers that violent past behind him and sees no irony in now working for actual lumberjacks.