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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 936638" data-attributes="member: 1328">Port-Bronze is a large island, named after its foremost city.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">What's the ruling power, and how does it stay that way? Port-Bronze owe its name to its ruler, a bronze dragon. Actually, a bronze dragon dynasty, but given the lifespan of dragons, dynasty or not matters not for humans. Its palace is located in the bay where the port is built, with a wide immersed part. The current leader is Queen Senitee, an ancient bronze dragon.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">How does having this specific ruling power affect the island's society? Being leaded by a bronze dragon has some distinct advantage. First and foremost, although not all people really understand it, is that the leader is uncorruptibly good. Then, the other asset are a great political stability, a government with good foresight and immense cunning, and in time of war, a devastating weapon.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">What unique features exist? Senitee's sons and daughters (a half-dozen of dragons between young adult and mature adult) as well as, it is said, the ghost of her late husband, slain two centuries ago by foul magic, stay near the island and are always ready to protect it. It is rumored Senitee has struck a deal with some dragon-turtles, who are supposed to haul warships around. Port-Bronze's fleet does have an unmatched mobility, able to move long distances even without wind. Finally, Senitee fosters an order of paladins.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">What kind of evil things can happen to my players there? Although Port-Bronze may seems an idyllic place given the wisdom, might, and goodness of its leader, this isn't true. Several gangs of thugs, and some weird sects, are plotting toward the downfall of the city. They are especially subtles, otherwise they don't stay active long, and always plot their nefarious deeds so that the blame fall on those shady strangers that call themselves "adventurers", who are the bestscapegoat ever. These secret organizations are frequently puppets for a personal enemy of Senitee's family, a terrible red wyrm who has studied actively sorcery and learned dreadul necromantic magic. He's already killed the previous king, sacrificing only an astral projection of himself, disguised as a human warmage, in the process. He'll try to start a war between Port-Bronze and another forces, so as to pull that same trick once more, once the Queen would escape the safety of her palace to join the battlefront. His hatred toward the bronze dragons is primarily motivated by the fact they ousted him of the island, which was previously his lair, and destroyed his laboratory and much of his experiments, before compelling humans to settle the island so as to make the place utterly unsuitable as a lair for an evil necromantic dragon.</li> </ul>Death's CoilThat name, and others equally ominous, describe a volcanic isle, recovered by a festering jungle. The island is a big volcanic crater, with a side that landslided into the ocean, forming a sort of big "C" on a map. On both sides of the "walls", a toxic wildlife prosper. In the submerged crater, the waters of the ocean are troubled by sulfur and other volcanic products that gives it an eerily beautiful color, but also a not-that-eerily awful stench.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">What's the ruling power, and how does it stay that way? The only humanoids inhabitants of the island are a tribe of particularly evil and degenerate orcs. They are demoncultists following Orcus, and have all sorts of perverse rituals involving diseases and necromancy. In a way, Orcus is the ruler there.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">How does having this specific ruling power affect the island's society? The demon-prince's corrupt influence, as well as the foul magic of the orcs, have also mutated vegetation and wildlife with evil disposition, negative energy and sinister plague-carrier. When tresspasser enters the island, they are first weakened by toxic vines, shadowy stalking felines, plague-ridden carnivorous apes, swarms of nauseating undead flies, and undead corrupted treants. Then, the orcs attack. They eat the flesh, damn the soul, and raise the bones of their victims.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">What unique features exist? Lots of negative-energy-infused creatures, even among the living. Festering plagues everywhere, including diseases turning you into vampires or zombies. The sulfurous waters in the lagoon are said to hold a gate to the River Styx, a gate that is opened by certain unknown, maybe astrological, conditions.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">What kind of evil things can happen to my players there? Cannibal demon-worshipping orcs, evil supernatural diseases, and twisted version of the worst man-eating feral beasts a green hell may hold.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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