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James Heard said:
OOC: Which reminds me, does Mavic know anything about this place? Why it's here, who built it, and what purpose it serves when you could fairly easily move this...crap... to the river?
Do you mean the Effluvium? If yes, then let's make a Knowledge (history) roll for you ... OK, decent enough.
Well, you know that the Effluvium has been here for centuries, although it seems to have expanded to its current state of olfactory virtuosity in the past 100 years with the increase in population. The number of people living in Istivin has grown steadily in the last century as the country has become more cosmopolitan.
At first it was simply a mid-size town full of ex-Keoish minor nobles who came here to carve out their own destiny, and it kept that character for centuries. It was only relatively recently that the town turned into a city and that the country began thinking of itself as more than just a vassal state to the crown in Niole Dra.
An aqueduct to the river was never constructed because early on there was no need to, there were simply not enough people living here. As stated, it's only been in the last century that the city could have really used it. There had been talk for years of building a proper sewage removal system, but then the wars happened, and people become preoccupied with simply surviving.
So I hope that was what you were asking about. If not, you just a history lesson on the subject of Sterich sewage, which I'm sure are very excited about.