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<blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 4500414" data-attributes="member: 3887"><p>More details... </p><p></p><p><strong>People:</strong></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Jackson Moloch</strong>, an artist with the body of a man and the head of a bull, hails from the Infernal Isles. He is schooled in something he calls Abstract Diabolism, which finds the Devil in the *lack* of detail. He works strictly on commission, taking his payment in unconsidered trifles, and his paintings are in high demand among certain rarified circles.</li> </ul><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Lady Katerina Feralgrace</strong>, also called St. Kat of All Graces, first came to the Port from one of the Shifter islands in the Near Aster in order to become a half-starved street urchin. She later parleyed the experience of nearly dying on the mean streets into becoming a member of Dodgy Artistes, an infamous troupe of larcenous performers based in the Shambles. As an Artiste, she studied under the famous warrior-woman-turned-choreographer Isadora Althing. Over the next decade of her life, Ekaterina rose though the social ranks, becoming a famous and respected dancer, a noble woman by marriage, then an accidental and acquitted murderess.<br /> <br /> For several years after her trial she disappeared from both polite and impolite societies, only to reappear to star in Isadora Althing's farewell recital; a performance of a recently uncovered 'classic' called 'The Hour of the Wolf'. Rumor claimed the piece was found in one of the Cataloged Mysteries. After a performance that was universally hailed as 'magical', Lady Feralgrace's fortunes changed once more.<br /> <br /> In short order she found herself being worshiped as the 'living saint' by the Wolf Parade. Somewhere between activist group and an ongoing street festival, the Parade's members are known throughout the Port for their custom of wearing elaborate animal masks and their philosophy of 'free mutability'. While many Parade members are natrually Shifters and lycanthropes, they choose to mask themselves as different animals; cat-women as wolves, wolf-mean wearing bear masks, etc. Most disturbing of all are those who hide their beastly demeanor behind bland, pink human masks. While her number of followers is small, and her exact influence over them is unclear, the Parade claims St. Kat's flock includes all the Shifters of the Interior border and all the lycanthropes of the Near Aster.<br /> <br /> She's also said to be the on-again, off-again lover of Captain Roux of the Shifting Rose.</li> </ul><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Isadora Althing</strong> is a ferocious warrior orignally from the Unassailable North, whose mastery of her tribe's Snow Squall War-Dance led her on an unlikely jounrey from being a penniless mercenary to the Port's greatest choreographer. Her temper is legendary. Dance critics literally feared for their lives when tendering reviews of her performances. Said to delight in opposites, she is rumored to be the long-time lover of the scholarly, though no less deadly, head librarian at the Dragon Library, Vellum Bellicose.</li> </ul><p></p><p><strong>Places:</strong></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>The Grave of Arms</strong> sits at the edge of the Clutch, a large, perfectly circular crater, a 1/4 mile across and 50 feet deep, filled with weapons and armor, most in pristine condition. According to legend it was the site of the last battle between Imperium Goetia and the MPM in the World Before, and it's true that many of the artifacts bear either the cruel baroque styling of Old Goetia design, or the non-functioning remnants of MPM machine-craft. What's most disturbing about the place is the absolute lack of remains; no bones, no blood, no remains of any kind. Few of the weapons or armor suits even bear the signs of physical damage. Many are worn, but in a peculiar way that suggests old cloth rather than metal, or the tops of very old windows grown thinner, in the manner of glass. It's as if the owners of these implements were simply made to "go away".<br /> <br /> It's hard to say how many people in the Middling Lands wear or wield items either directly taken, or at least reforged from, this haunted place.</li> </ul><p></p><p><strong>Things:</strong></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>The Deep Aster Cup</strong> is an annual, not to mention illegal, boat race run out of the port. It has no official name, and officially, the Governor has decreed even admitting its existence is a capital offense, and yet it goes on, year after year, with the Governor's tacit approval. <br /> <br /> Everyone knows it's sponsored by a wealthy retired merchant captain named Le Mans Gullivule, who is, in fact, the Oceanographer General's cousin-by-marriage. The course is simple; it's a circuit of three islands (with mandatory landings on each) in the Near Aster --the name is, alas, misleading-- beginning and ending in the Port. The islands in question are Aevelon (just of the Blessed Isle, it's also known as the Isle of Half-Men, being home to many half-elves), the Isle of Beasts, and Enkiil Island (run by, and overrun with, vampires). The risks of getting seduced by half-fae charms, eaten by talking beasts, or drank up like coppery milkshake all pale by comparison to the most dangerous aspect of the race: contestants must use boats not proofed against the Aster. Or rather, they must be proofed in a manner of the contestants own devising, not by the Governor's Ritual.<br /> <br /> Gullivule's motive is transparent... he wishes to break the Governor's monopoly on safeguarding ships that ply the Aster. The Governor's reason for the lax enforcement of his own decree is own; though speculation runs that the Governor's supply of the reagent used in his secret Aster-proofing Ritual is running out, thus his interest in alternate means.<br /> <br /> To this day, the Deep Aster Cup has no winners, only survivors; being unchanged by the Aster is one of the requirements for victory.</li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mallus, post: 4500414, member: 3887"] More details... [b]People:[/b] [list][b]Jackson Moloch[/b], an artist with the body of a man and the head of a bull, hails from the Infernal Isles. He is schooled in something he calls Abstract Diabolism, which finds the Devil in the *lack* of detail. He works strictly on commission, taking his payment in unconsidered trifles, and his paintings are in high demand among certain rarified circles.[/list] [list][b]Lady Katerina Feralgrace[/b], also called St. Kat of All Graces, first came to the Port from one of the Shifter islands in the Near Aster in order to become a half-starved street urchin. She later parleyed the experience of nearly dying on the mean streets into becoming a member of Dodgy Artistes, an infamous troupe of larcenous performers based in the Shambles. As an Artiste, she studied under the famous warrior-woman-turned-choreographer Isadora Althing. Over the next decade of her life, Ekaterina rose though the social ranks, becoming a famous and respected dancer, a noble woman by marriage, then an accidental and acquitted murderess. For several years after her trial she disappeared from both polite and impolite societies, only to reappear to star in Isadora Althing's farewell recital; a performance of a recently uncovered 'classic' called 'The Hour of the Wolf'. Rumor claimed the piece was found in one of the Cataloged Mysteries. After a performance that was universally hailed as 'magical', Lady Feralgrace's fortunes changed once more. In short order she found herself being worshiped as the 'living saint' by the Wolf Parade. Somewhere between activist group and an ongoing street festival, the Parade's members are known throughout the Port for their custom of wearing elaborate animal masks and their philosophy of 'free mutability'. While many Parade members are natrually Shifters and lycanthropes, they choose to mask themselves as different animals; cat-women as wolves, wolf-mean wearing bear masks, etc. Most disturbing of all are those who hide their beastly demeanor behind bland, pink human masks. While her number of followers is small, and her exact influence over them is unclear, the Parade claims St. Kat's flock includes all the Shifters of the Interior border and all the lycanthropes of the Near Aster. She's also said to be the on-again, off-again lover of Captain Roux of the Shifting Rose.[/list] [list][b]Isadora Althing[/b] is a ferocious warrior orignally from the Unassailable North, whose mastery of her tribe's Snow Squall War-Dance led her on an unlikely jounrey from being a penniless mercenary to the Port's greatest choreographer. Her temper is legendary. Dance critics literally feared for their lives when tendering reviews of her performances. Said to delight in opposites, she is rumored to be the long-time lover of the scholarly, though no less deadly, head librarian at the Dragon Library, Vellum Bellicose.[/list] [b]Places:[/b] [list][b]The Grave of Arms[/b] sits at the edge of the Clutch, a large, perfectly circular crater, a 1/4 mile across and 50 feet deep, filled with weapons and armor, most in pristine condition. According to legend it was the site of the last battle between Imperium Goetia and the MPM in the World Before, and it's true that many of the artifacts bear either the cruel baroque styling of Old Goetia design, or the non-functioning remnants of MPM machine-craft. What's most disturbing about the place is the absolute lack of remains; no bones, no blood, no remains of any kind. Few of the weapons or armor suits even bear the signs of physical damage. Many are worn, but in a peculiar way that suggests old cloth rather than metal, or the tops of very old windows grown thinner, in the manner of glass. It's as if the owners of these implements were simply made to "go away". It's hard to say how many people in the Middling Lands wear or wield items either directly taken, or at least reforged from, this haunted place.[/list] [b]Things:[/b] [list][b]The Deep Aster Cup[/b] is an annual, not to mention illegal, boat race run out of the port. It has no official name, and officially, the Governor has decreed even admitting its existence is a capital offense, and yet it goes on, year after year, with the Governor's tacit approval. Everyone knows it's sponsored by a wealthy retired merchant captain named Le Mans Gullivule, who is, in fact, the Oceanographer General's cousin-by-marriage. The course is simple; it's a circuit of three islands (with mandatory landings on each) in the Near Aster --the name is, alas, misleading-- beginning and ending in the Port. The islands in question are Aevelon (just of the Blessed Isle, it's also known as the Isle of Half-Men, being home to many half-elves), the Isle of Beasts, and Enkiil Island (run by, and overrun with, vampires). The risks of getting seduced by half-fae charms, eaten by talking beasts, or drank up like coppery milkshake all pale by comparison to the most dangerous aspect of the race: contestants must use boats not proofed against the Aster. Or rather, they must be proofed in a manner of the contestants own devising, not by the Governor's Ritual. Gullivule's motive is transparent... he wishes to break the Governor's monopoly on safeguarding ships that ply the Aster. The Governor's reason for the lax enforcement of his own decree is own; though speculation runs that the Governor's supply of the reagent used in his secret Aster-proofing Ritual is running out, thus his interest in alternate means. To this day, the Deep Aster Cup has no winners, only survivors; being unchanged by the Aster is one of the requirements for victory.[/list] [/QUOTE]
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