[Mor's End Discussion] Time to open shop!

[wizardoftheplains]

Hmm.. how does 10,000 sound? Since EN World is getting its 10k member soon.

A 16th lvel Grandma sounds powerful enough. Armed with the deadly rolling pin of death..

Ok if there are no other objections, Mor's End is the name of the city and Kul Moren the Dwarven settlement, and Enheim the area.
Kul Moren will have a population of about 800, and the fishing village 500. This is so they don't overshadow Mor's End.
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Hmmm. I like all the above.

Just had a thought about Intrigue. Have an Mor's End Tavern Thread for the posting of all gossip/rumors relating to the city. Any posts that don't fit neatly into the Minister threads can find a home there. It's a thread available for continual subject hijacking.

 

[Lalato]

why would one call it Mor's End? Or just Mor-En/En-Mor?

The Barbarian Explorer, Noahn Deleric, was the first man to lay claim to the area... His grandmother, Nonna Deleric, was the one really in control, though... Because of her, Noahn's followers raided caravan after caravan... looting them for treasure and information... The information was for Noahn's Grandmother... she wanted to know everything she could about her arch enemy, the wizard Ovder Khost.

In a moment of strong will... Noahn broke free of the enchantments his grandmother had placed on him...

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I'm stuck here... I'm thinking that Noahn banishes his grandmother... and decides to explore the rest of the world... He splits the area between his two best men... Rusol Mor and Kulpin... Kulpin continues raiding caravans, but Rusol Mor decides that there is more money in trading than in raiding... He takes his END of the lake... and decides to build a settlement... thus Mor's End... as in Mor's end, or side, of the lake...

--sam

 

[Knightfall]

(Not that auspicious a name though... why would one call it Mor's End?

For me the reasoning was that the river would be called the Mor River and that the city was named Mor's End because it sits near/at the end of river where it meets the lake.

KF72

 

[Knightfall]

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[Krug]

Thanks Knightfall.
Mor's End it'll be. All this is looking very good.

wizardofthe plains: how about something else other than spider-kin for the 'thing' that's disturbed?

lalato: Catoblepas hunting; elaborate perhaps. What about those stricken to death by it? Hunting always seemed to me only interesting if the hunters had a tremendous advantage.

Knightfall: There should be at least a 1-2% 'other' in the population mix. Gobbos, Kobolds, monstrous beings... as long as you have a purpose you may enter the city.

 

[wizardoftheplains]

Thanks for summarizing again Lots of info.
I'm going to edit this offline a bit for the government thread I'm starting. I'll focus on the political structure.
Is it okay if I take off the names of the creators since they're posted elsewhere? I can keep them on if you all want.
I'll start by listing those that gave input at the top of the thread and then summarize. I'll leave government/political choices in and as people have other ideas or start voting with their comments I'll remove some of the less popular idea. Then I'll periodically post results back into this thread.

 

[Knightfall]

Thanks Knightfall.
Mor's End it'll be. All this is looking very good.

Catoblepas hunting; elaborate perhaps. What about those stricken to death by it? Hunting always seemed to me only interesting if the hunters had a tremendous advantage.

Knightfall: There should be at least a 1-2% 'other' in the population mix. Gobbos, Kobolds, monstrous beings... as long as you have a purpose you may enter the city.

you're velcome, again!

Actually, catoblepas hunting was my idea. And think of it as a cult of god of pain and suffering. They hunt a dangerous creature in order to risk pain in the name of their god. They're not a secret society but they do tend to be shunned at gatherings for their many scars and garrish outfits.

And I'll add the 1-2% 'other' in a minute.

Anything else you want to make semi-final? (Perhaps the Matriarch of the city.)

 

[Knightfall]

Is it okay if I take off the names of the creators since they're posted elsewhere?

Ask and ye shall receive.

 

[wizardoftheplains]

Thanks Knightfall.
Mor's End it'll be. All this is looking very good.

wizardofthe plains: how about something else other than spider-kin for the 'thing' that's disturbed?

Knightfall: There should be at least a 1-2% 'other' in the population mix. Gobbos, Kobolds, monstrous beings... as long as you have a purpose you may enter the city.

How about...
Some years ago, abandoned underground warrens were discovered beneath part of the city...a myriad of tunnels that the population uses for a underworld nightlife scene, storage (meat lockers, grain, and supplieds, and defense in a time of war. Unbeknownst to but a few of the cities inhabitants, the tunnels lead deep into the earth, to the resting place of an ancient creature from the First Age, a gargantuan arachnid buried in eons ago, currently in a state of prolonged (eon-long) hibernation deep below Mor's End.

The tunnels themselves were the work of a clever race of dark gnomes, who revered the sleeping creature as a god, and built an underground city/tunnel complex around it. They disappeared during the creature's last awakening, when they collectively offered themselves to their entombed god in a mad desire to keep it alive through another age...or so the legend goes.

(Even though I think the ELH is broken, I love the giant buried monstrosity angle. What do you all think?)

 

[Krug]

Wizard> Well your first duty is to choose the leader of the city!

Yes, Catoblepas cult hunting sounds good. Makes more sense.

Arachnid > Hmm.. ok. As long as it's not drow!