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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 4432247" data-attributes="member: 3887">A few odds and ends... with emphasis on the odd:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Thrice-a-Day is an Eladrin clockmaker. He gets his name from the old Eladrin saying, “even a broken clock is right thrice a day”. He actually crafts a variety of intricate curiosities in the shop he both lives and works in just off Five Fathoms Market, but it’s his timepieces which are most readily identifiable. In the small yard behind the shop, Thrice-a-Day is building his masterpiece; a Fae Clock Tower. Seen from the street, it resembles an ornate grandfather clock that just peeks over the wall around the yard. When looking out the shop’s back door, however, the Clock Tower looms up 10 stories or more, at an impossible angle, seeming far larger than the space it’s crammed in to. Thrice-a-Day is always in need of some odd part or ingredient for the elaborate Ritual that is the construction of the Clock Tower. He's sure he'll finish it one day, and from that glorious day onward, his Clock will 'tell time'. People assume he means it'll tell Time 'what to do' or 'how quickly to run', rather than in the conventional sense. A professor at the University, Wulfram Fritz, has recently become interested, if not obsessed, with the impractical clocks Thrice-a-Day makes. He's convinced that they all show the correct time, a fact which has disastrous, though unnamed, consequences for the Middling Lands.</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Lord Bum is the port's "King of Beggars". He lives, when he can afford to, at a dockside flophouse in the Stagger called Bumcastle, in honor of him. He dresses in a mocking patchwork of "castoff" finery that suggests both a quick wit and a more than passing acquaintance with the criminal underworld. It's said he almost has as many eyes and ears on the streets as the Governor. When asked his full name he usually gives it as "Arsely Bottom", or "Arsely Keister-Bottom". His "court" of homeless men and women can usually found meeting, or at least sleeping one off, on the benches of a park near the flophouse. They are known as the Unseemly Court.</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Medallion just might be a man, though port odds-makers give better than even money that “he” is actually some kind of animating force that resides in the medallion he always wears around his neck. Either way, he basically owns the nicest part of town, including his fabulous estate on Memorandum Hill, which is said to contain pieces of the World Before.</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Eustace Mar is the Lord High Oceanographer of the Oceanographic Guild. His nickname, primarily among those who don’t respect him, is “Hydrocephalus”.</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Meridian Cantor is the Cartographer-General of the Geographic Society.</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Shem and Shaun are goblin tale-spinners and bards. They are compiling the complete, definitive, and, unfortunately, entirely incomprehensible history of the port.</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The name of the Tiefling empire in the World Before is the Imperium Goetia.</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The name of the Dragonborn empire in the World Before is the Magna Publica Machina, the Great Machine of State.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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