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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paka" data-source="post: 916942" data-attributes="member: 100">Pillars and Captain, welcome to the Story Hour.I re-read what I have and edited , re-wrote some sentences, nothing drastic, just some little changes that needed doing.  I think the most dramatic thing I did was re-write the last sentence to one of the posts.This week we will get to put in a proper five hours of gaming and I am looking forward to that.  I wish we could game some more, eight hours would be great but so be it.  Should be fun.Below is an e-mail exchange with one of the players, JJ, that I thought was worth keeping and worth posting. Chain of command: who eats who, and who fears who, who bribes who legates and asterix who's in charge orcs, goblins, legates, humans, halflings, gnomes (the food chainof command) What do goblins respect/fear the most what do orcs fear/respect the most It is all a convoluted chain of command. Some Orcs are also Legates, some Legates are Soldiers. Some Legates command men and Orcs in the battlefield and some, for whatever reason, cannot and do not. Fear? Izrador. He is the top of the food chain and while he's a God, he is a God who has a body and walks Eredane. Once, a year or so after you first visited Eredane he visited. You never saw him directly but could tell he was there. It was the worst ten minutes of your life, made being beaten by your father look like a Restday Picnic. Halflings are slaves in your understanding. They are the lowest on the totem pole and the only reason some aren't ritually beatne, eaten and raped (in any one of the nine possible orders) is because of the status of their owner. They are, after all, property. Gnomes are boatmen and it is their ships that take Orcs, supplies and such across the Pellurian Sea and into the rivers. They are a vital part of the Shadow's food chain but it is also known that they flaunt the laws and smuggle, sometimes to the Dwarves and Elves or other Insurgents. Goblins fear and respect anything that can kill them. Every so often a Goblin will get brutally cunning and rise in the ranks. If a Goblin really distinguishes himself he can become a Black Hood, a cabal of Goblin Assassins. They are especially nasty because they are trained and then put back out into normal patrols. One never knows when a Black Hood will strike on orders from a Night King of Izrador himself. Orc fear nothing. They are the true sons of Izrador. Well, in theory, they fear nothing. Truth is they are killed in droves in the Kaladrun Mountains and in the Ethenor Forest. They fear but to show it is to show weakness and to show weakness is to DIE. General: 1- how can we get slaves Get a writ from your friendly neighborhood Legate and bribe, bribe, bribe. Take the weak, put chains on them and declare them as your slaves; it is about that easy with a Legate's word on your side. 2- what r common bartering goods Good question. Food is a big one. Metal, fur, leather, tools of any kind. Hunting equipment, bows, arrows, slings, traps. Boots, this far north, warm clothes are a big deal. Live farm animals. A good healthy sheep would be worth a mint (but where would you put it when the Orcs come into town and get hungry or horny or angry?) There is a list in the book. I'll show it to you. 3 - what do gnomes often carry for trade and what do they want Gnomes carry much of the above, taking it where the Legates tell them. They also carry black market Elven and Dwarven items and take some stuff to different fronts for insurgent use. What do they want? They want to live on the river, survive while still doing their part to mess with the Shadow. And they want the bottom line, they want a profit at the end of the day. 4- how do we get weapons, armor, mounts You've been lucky little bastards and started with all of the equipment you could want because you were Tower Trained. This ain't normal by a long shot and I fear you guys are in for a rude awakening if you should ever rebel hard and fast. You get weapons, armor and mounts by being in the party of a Shadow Legate. THe moment a Legate isn't there to hold your hand you are an outlaw and will be killed or tortured and killed or just thrown into slavery. How would you get it without Legate help? That will be a big part of the campaign should you two decide to take the Rebel Plunge. Dorns: Ancestors any i might have herd of tales and fables. all word of mouth probably. any ancient mytheology, ancestral worship, and gods stuffs where are the largest communities of dorns. outlaw dorns of rewnon If it is cool with you, let's use Norse Myth for the Dornish ancestors. I picture them as vikings anyway. Let's bastardize Norse myth. You had an ancestor named Tor who threw lightning bolts and one named Loki Skywalker who is sly of tongue, etc. etc. Odin One-eye, the One Tree, all neat, brutal stuff that I think really works within Midnight. Let me think a little about the Baden family in particular. Please feel free to always make stuff up. Making up your corner of the universe is ALWAYS cool. More later...</blockquote>

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