Storms of Change OOC Parts 1 and 2

[Manzanita]

Cool. I do see Manzanita as a lawyer. It would be a great blow to her pride to be consigned to mill work. Not that it shouldn't happen, but I'd prefer that she didn't join the elven army because she was too tied up in the white tower of legal and magical theory to properly appreciate the threat that was posed. After her settlement was smashed she would try to get work in a legal or magical capacity (perhaps in alchemy).

The manzanita tree, for those unfamiliar with it, is beautiful, but almost more akin to a bush than a tree. It is small, with a yellow trunk, and brown bark that slowly peels back, showing the yellow underneath. Quite pretty & striking, on those backwoods hikes in Southern Oregon.

The name of her band might be the Sparrows, or Monarchs, representing small, but brave migrants to a new land.

 

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Manzanita - Lawyer, alchemist, or anything else you want is cool. Mostly I just added a connection to the Jangis Empire, where you might go one day But everything is up to you, really. You don't have to be an outsider, you can give Manzanita links to legal or alchemical organizations or schools, whatever. I'll just incorporate it.

 

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GPEKO - Sorry, Darien's reaction to what?

There are 25 bodies, half of them children.

I take it we're ready to move on then?

 

[Seonaid]

Rowyn wants to help bury the bodies, but if Darien says to move, she'll go. Otherwise, I'm ready to move on.

 

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Ah! Darien's reaction to burying the bodies! Sorry about momentary brain freeze. You're sure Darien would agree it's the right thing to do. The merchants, on the other hand, you're not so sure about.

 

[Seonaid]

Screw the merchants.

 

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Is anyone taking the seat on the wagon? The rear lookout spot?

 

[Seonaid]

If no one else wants it, Rowyn will. Since she's shorter, she'd be slower. However, she doesn't at all mind walking. In fact, she sort of prefers it.

 

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The caravan is being pulled by heavy horses. Pulling the wagons, they move at a speed of 35 ft. So when you walk you're actually hustling

Edit corrected speed

 

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Rowyn's comment about missing her home got me thinking.

The Duchy of Rogan is about 90 miles E-W, and 180 miles N-S. It's bordered on the west by the Diamond Mountains, east by the Severin Forest, south Shillen proper, and north by the wilderness/borderlands leading to Goruka. The Trade Road is 20-30 miles from the forest. One day I'll have to make a nice map for you guys.

The Diamond Mountains and the Severin Forest are considered part of Shillen, at least by the ruling Council of Five.

Zanock and Dunathar come from somewhere along the Diamond Mountains near the south of Rogan. I've played around with the idea that Dunathar's dwarves wiped out Zanock's orcs Bert comes from the Duchy of Veln, on the Tand River, a few hundred miles south and east of your current location. Alan comes from a town only 20 miles to the west of Carodan. He will have visited Carodan before. Rowyn's village is east of Flinock in the Severin Forest.

Zanock, Dunathar, Bert, Alan and Rowyn were all travelling away from their homes for a while, and were staying in villages just south of Flinock, where they met up with the caravan.

Etherial's Ivory Brotherhood is located along the south western edge of the Severin Forest, also not far from Flinock. (I may keep him as an NPC, I'm undecided.)

Devan's small farming community is not far from where your last caravan stop was (ambush location). Manzanita, who has a more urban background, could be from Masar, the largest city in the Duchy, about 30 miles to the west of the same caravan stop.