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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daztur" data-source="post: 6061666" data-attributes="member: 55680">The Wives of Viceroy OrhanAdditional information about Hex 19.31 Note: I’ve started rereading the Dying Earth by Jack Vance and it’s easy to see why they influenced Gygax so much, I can barely read a page without scribbling something down that gives me ideas for this setting. This one is very loosely inspired by the ending of Mazirian the Magician. I’ve also started randomly choosing a page number each time I write a hex and then connecting the hex I’m writing to that one, which has been giving me some interesting ideas for the last few hexes I’ve written. It is easy to see why the Viceroys made Orhan treasurer of Jahur. Despite his protestations about the cost of the material components, how could they not make a man who could turn lead to gold their treasurer?  And Orhan did not only make his own gold, he built his own palace and sculpted his own wives. In his younger days, fresh from serving as an apprentice of the Lady (40.06) the Viceroys of the Jahur showed him their daughters one by one, but Orhan found much to be desired both in the girls themselves and in the heavy duties that every Jahuri man owes to his father in-law. He decided he could do better himself and grew his own wives in his vats and had a gnoll of the kharghaha sing souls into them (51.29.02). Their beauty and grace were envied by all of Jahur and Orhan owes his live to his favorite wife, Ronais, who was struck down defending him from the wax golem that attacked him. Although her body was shattered, one of Orhan’s apprentices was able to cut out her brain and keep it safe until a new body can be built for it. For his own safety Ohran now lies languishing in a dungeon and, while he has forgotten much, he has not forgotten Ronais and constantly rants and beats his fists screaming that he must be let out to build her a new body before it is too late. Hooks:-What material components are needed to turn lead into gold? Why other alchemy does (did?) Orhan know?-How did Orhan build his own palace?-What duties do Jahuri men owe their father in-laws?-Are there any differences between vat-born and normal humans? Did Orhan grow anything besides wives in his vats?-Why did Orhan need gnolls to sing soul into his wives? What’s special about gnollish singing?-Too late? Too late for what? In his current state what sort of body would Orhan create?-Is there anything else to tell about the love of Orhan and Ronais? Connection: the Lady grew similar people in vats (37.07). Maybe that’s why she kept the gnolls around in her tower… The Burnt CaravanHex 11.05 Maris Hallover is expecting the arrival of a supply caravan at Uncle Bertie’s Trading Post (03.08). She’ll be waiting for a long time because it was ambushed by goblins (11.01). The creatures were angered by the lies that the Furhoof (17.05) merchants told them and fell upon the caravan at night, their shrieks panicking the Furhoof ostriches. The corpses of the halflings and ostriches are now nowhere to be seen but a grove of oak saplings already grows among the burnt wreckage of the caravan. The only survivor of the attack (or at least the only one still in the area) is a very annoyed were-shark (00.06) that was being transported to the Ocean of Bitter Regrets in a salt water tank mounted on a great wagon. While in shark form it stays in a small pond and refuses to go far when it legs return for it for fear of being stranded on dry land when it returns to shark form. Hooks:-What is it with goblins and oak trees?-How will Maris and the Furhooves react to the goblin attack?-What lies did the Furhoofs tell the goblins that angered them so? Or do all lies burn goblin ears?-Why were the goblins able to panic the ostriches so easily? Is there something strange about goblin voices?-Who is the were-shark? What was it doing being carted about?</blockquote>

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