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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3555375" data-attributes="member: 3448">Assuming that this attachment posts properly, this should help as a map.  It's worth noting that there may be some inconsistencies with the storyhour-- we didn't get this map until after a bunch of stuff had been written.  The big north-south continent is Drucien.  The northern east-west continent is Khamista.  The third continent is Zest'qua.Zorplona-Argoni is less of a place than a society of slavers.  Thinking something like SPECTRE (or the Scarlet Brotherhood) gets you on the right track.  They do control some chunks of land (like one of the Enclaves in the City of Enclaves), but mostly they divide the world up into areas of influence/control without regard to other countries' borders.Baron Opal, I can't really help you much with the color pools.  There's a little bit of discussion about them coming up, but only in passing.  Unfortunately, none of the main PCs in this group is particularly interested in them, so we haven't been learning much.------Kit nodded.  “What about the Cu’rinirim issue?  It’s pretty clear that Princess Cu’rinirim’s guard captain killed him in self-defense, but I don’t see an easy way out.”“Yeah.  If we quash it, we have a mess domestically.  If he is tried and convicted, we run the risk of alienating House Cu’rinirim, and we have enough enemies as it is.  But any sort of trial could make things worse.”“What if we tried to handle it quietly?  Have him acknowledge wrongdoing, fine him, tell him never to return to Canberry…”Alistair frowned.  “I don’t like it.  He isn’t guilty, if the report is accurate.  I’m not even sure that we could get the Cu’rinirim to agree to it.  It’s one thing to submit to local justice--it’s another thing entirely to admit wrongdoing when they don’t think there is any.  It might insult them if we even ask, or it might make them think we aren’t honorable.” Alistair rubbed his chin as he thought.  “What if we arrange for a judge who we can trust to rule honorably, but the mob will know is against the Noldar?  I was thinking of the half-Eldar who is an advisor to one of my vassals.” Alistair flipped through a stack of parchment.  “Here it is.  Caleoglas Mal’quenwe, advisor to Count of Soaringspire.  I’m pretty sure he would rule honorably, which would mean acquitting the Noldar, but appointing him will make the builder’s family happy, because they will know he hates the Noldar.”“That could work.” Kit thought about it.  “Are we sure he won’t convict just to hurt House Cu’rinirim?”“Pretty sure.  I can’t be certain, but I think his sense of honor and commitment to the truth would prevail over his animosity towards the Noldar, especially where the actual defendant would be a Shadowelf, not a Noldar.”“I like it.  Makes everyone happy-- or maybe it makes everyone unhappy, but not so unhappy that they’ll make trouble.”“It also gives us an excuse to hold the trial in Soaringspire.  Once the captain goes off in captivity to trial by an elf, most of the locals will think he’s as good as dead, but the Noldar will barely notice.”“Right.  I think that’s everything we need to deal with now, except for the military situation, and we should take care of that when we can get Dame Brionna’s perspective.”</blockquote>

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