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<blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 9700276" data-attributes="member: 6802378"><p>Thanks for your answers. I say it sinceretely. I am happy to see you are willing to participate adding your own ideas.</p><p></p><p>Here an idea of city-state. Officialy it is only one but really it is divided into two zones, uptown and downtown. The uptown is the zone with wealth and power, ruled by the pretor, and the downtown is a "lawless zone" where the crimelord is nicknamed "godfather". The pretor and the godfather are archenemies but there is a secret. Both belongs to a secret organitation where only can know three members, the supervisor and two subordinates, and both obey the same lodge leader, the true overlord who uses the confrontation like a tool to control the domain.</p><p></p><p>Other city-state is ruled by a secret society whose leader cell is the "hulder sisterhood". The origin is when a concubine wanted to survive the harem intrigues and she accepted a deal with a noble. She offered her daughter's hand (he would marry her) and the grandson would become the future heir and satrap. The concubine suspected the noble really was an infiltrated genie but the truth was worse, he really was a fiend. You could suspect the concubine's daughter would suffer a horrible fate with her new husband but the facts happened in a different way. The fiend was killed and replaced by an impostor, a fey-lord's son. (really the noble fiend tricked his murder. He knew a descendant with fiend blood would be discovered by the clerics and then his plan was different). The bride needed some time to get used to her new husband but comparing the others their marriage was relatively stable and the fruits of this union were the first generation of hulders, a new kind of female feys with great beauty, some fox or cow tail, and a back that may seem rotten wood (under certain conditions, such as certain dates or using divinatory magic). A couple of generations later the hulders were tired with the palace intrigues and escaped. With the right contacts and help by the new satrap (the concubine's grandson) they created a secret organitation focused mainly into freelance espionage and information trafficking. Some times these hulders accept be hired to take revengue against those who abused innocent females or children, creating a grimm urban legend in the zone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LuisCarlos17f, post: 9700276, member: 6802378"] Thanks for your answers. I say it sinceretely. I am happy to see you are willing to participate adding your own ideas. Here an idea of city-state. Officialy it is only one but really it is divided into two zones, uptown and downtown. The uptown is the zone with wealth and power, ruled by the pretor, and the downtown is a "lawless zone" where the crimelord is nicknamed "godfather". The pretor and the godfather are archenemies but there is a secret. Both belongs to a secret organitation where only can know three members, the supervisor and two subordinates, and both obey the same lodge leader, the true overlord who uses the confrontation like a tool to control the domain. Other city-state is ruled by a secret society whose leader cell is the "hulder sisterhood". The origin is when a concubine wanted to survive the harem intrigues and she accepted a deal with a noble. She offered her daughter's hand (he would marry her) and the grandson would become the future heir and satrap. The concubine suspected the noble really was an infiltrated genie but the truth was worse, he really was a fiend. You could suspect the concubine's daughter would suffer a horrible fate with her new husband but the facts happened in a different way. The fiend was killed and replaced by an impostor, a fey-lord's son. (really the noble fiend tricked his murder. He knew a descendant with fiend blood would be discovered by the clerics and then his plan was different). The bride needed some time to get used to her new husband but comparing the others their marriage was relatively stable and the fruits of this union were the first generation of hulders, a new kind of female feys with great beauty, some fox or cow tail, and a back that may seem rotten wood (under certain conditions, such as certain dates or using divinatory magic). A couple of generations later the hulders were tired with the palace intrigues and escaped. With the right contacts and help by the new satrap (the concubine's grandson) they created a secret organitation focused mainly into freelance espionage and information trafficking. Some times these hulders accept be hired to take revengue against those who abused innocent females or children, creating a grimm urban legend in the zone. [/QUOTE]
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