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<blockquote data-quote="Phoenix" data-source="post: 2300525" data-attributes="member: 16166"><p>[sblock]Bardic Knowledge check (Dyllathan Buidlings DC Variable) +20</p><p>Bardic Knowledge check (Thylon DC Variable) +23</p><p>Bardic Knowledge check (Family Trading DC Variable) +15</p><p>Spot check +12</p><p>[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>The Dyllathan buildings is a collection of small spires attached to a central tower that is located on the more hospitable sides of the Apartments, closest to the docks to allow outsiders to trade for whatever the ward chooses to export at that moment. It is rumoured that the Dyllathan building was once home to a Dwarven Warlord by the name of Iobold that attempted to force the Apartments to fall under his rule by 'Right of Might'. Iobold went missing several weeks into his campaign, some say he got lost in the network of tunnels and corridors, others say that the buildings chose to swallow him up rather than conform to this method of Law.</p><p>Thylon himself is a ruthless trader, willing to take advantage of any situation to sell what the desperate or needy require. He sold his own mother to organ farmers years ago, then purchased several of her body parts back under a third party, then sold them a second time for a substantial profit.</p><p>Currently his specialty is Family Trading, a fashionable pastime that has picked up in the last year. Due to the chaotic breeding patterns of the poorer areas of town, as well as the recent craze of nobility slumming that ended under a decade ago (Lord Brant found himself up to his ears in visitors when his peasant 'pals' discovered who his was and where he lived) it was found that several children were being born to illegitimate fathers that could be traced back to nobility.</p><p>Seeing a possible commodity, certain merchant princes purchased a group of children, then paid minor clergymen and wizards to authenticate the birthright, and finally formally adopted them to stake claim to another man's legacy. Showing off such children, and trading them for vast amounts of money, has now become a craze that has blown out of control, and even to own the third son of a merchant prince's cousin is worth something in the world of politics, if you know how to use it of course.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">****</p><p></p><p>Ghost casually walked across the courtyards of the first few scattered spyres of the Apartments, even here shanty homes leaned against anything stable to provide homes for those reduced to eating anything that their shattered teeth could chew. Apart from the scared eyes that peered from these homes, staring in hunger at his possessions but too frightened to act upon it, there seemed to be none that watched him or hid in the shadows for means nefarious.</p><p>The entrance to the Dyllathan buildings stood ahead where two large Ogres dressed in armour that looked like chunks of worked masonry tied together with old rope, stood guard grasping large clubs that may have been once somebody's furniture. A smattering of people come and go, each with a look of desperation on their face, but in this city who wasn't desperate?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Phoenix, post: 2300525, member: 16166"] [sblock]Bardic Knowledge check (Dyllathan Buidlings DC Variable) +20 Bardic Knowledge check (Thylon DC Variable) +23 Bardic Knowledge check (Family Trading DC Variable) +15 Spot check +12 [/sblock] The Dyllathan buildings is a collection of small spires attached to a central tower that is located on the more hospitable sides of the Apartments, closest to the docks to allow outsiders to trade for whatever the ward chooses to export at that moment. It is rumoured that the Dyllathan building was once home to a Dwarven Warlord by the name of Iobold that attempted to force the Apartments to fall under his rule by 'Right of Might'. Iobold went missing several weeks into his campaign, some say he got lost in the network of tunnels and corridors, others say that the buildings chose to swallow him up rather than conform to this method of Law. Thylon himself is a ruthless trader, willing to take advantage of any situation to sell what the desperate or needy require. He sold his own mother to organ farmers years ago, then purchased several of her body parts back under a third party, then sold them a second time for a substantial profit. Currently his specialty is Family Trading, a fashionable pastime that has picked up in the last year. Due to the chaotic breeding patterns of the poorer areas of town, as well as the recent craze of nobility slumming that ended under a decade ago (Lord Brant found himself up to his ears in visitors when his peasant 'pals' discovered who his was and where he lived) it was found that several children were being born to illegitimate fathers that could be traced back to nobility. Seeing a possible commodity, certain merchant princes purchased a group of children, then paid minor clergymen and wizards to authenticate the birthright, and finally formally adopted them to stake claim to another man's legacy. Showing off such children, and trading them for vast amounts of money, has now become a craze that has blown out of control, and even to own the third son of a merchant prince's cousin is worth something in the world of politics, if you know how to use it of course. [CENTER]****[/CENTER] Ghost casually walked across the courtyards of the first few scattered spyres of the Apartments, even here shanty homes leaned against anything stable to provide homes for those reduced to eating anything that their shattered teeth could chew. Apart from the scared eyes that peered from these homes, staring in hunger at his possessions but too frightened to act upon it, there seemed to be none that watched him or hid in the shadows for means nefarious. The entrance to the Dyllathan buildings stood ahead where two large Ogres dressed in armour that looked like chunks of worked masonry tied together with old rope, stood guard grasping large clubs that may have been once somebody's furniture. A smattering of people come and go, each with a look of desperation on their face, but in this city who wasn't desperate? [/QUOTE]
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