Editing Typhonian Reach (section)

== Other Locations of Note ==

'''Map:''' https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1XM_zCm8gCuYlpqSmVsSHNycDA/view

'''Gazetteer Notes/Brain-Scribble:''' [[Typhonian Reach Gazetteer]]

'''Neb-E-Theq of the Twin Grains (hex 74.28)''' 

Neb-E-Theq's great fortune is also its curse. The city occupies a transitional zone where changing salinity levels allow harvesting of both barley and emmer wheat. As such, the clans of Neb-E-Theq have grown adept in the brewing of a vast variety of beers, and the other cities of Neb (as well as strangers from Nin, Zin, and even beyond) make pilgrimages to take part in Neb-E-Theq’s festivals and drink of its bounteous beers.
 
Yet within Neb-E-Theq trouble... pardon the pun... brews. The Barley Clans stoutly maintain that only beer made in the traditional way, using the barley mandated by the Fixed Sign itself, is true beer, while the elitist Wheat Clans look down their noses at what they consider an outdated brew. Additionally, even within the two factions, continuous infighting occurs over whose specific recipe is superior. Meanwhile, both factions resent the lugal-queen who wishes to funnel the booming beer trade through the palace.
 
And recently, frightful whispers spread among the people that Queen Lurshaba dislikes beer, drinking it only desultorily at ritual functions and in private preferring the outland beverage of... wine.
 
'''E-adish, the Sacred City of the Stelae, Now Abandoned (hex 60.33 – formerly 60.34, but I’m moving it to tie into Illuminous’ faction)
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Tales passed down from before writing fell from Heaven claim this was the first human city, founded on the banks of the life-giving Nin-Sish. For as far back as forefathers remembered, it dominated the delta. From E-adish arose its greatest and last ruler, the Queen of Queens, Bab-Shet-Gur-Shum the Inexorable, First and Last of Her Name, Victor over the Bullu-Gug.
 
It was Bab-Shet-Gur-Shum who conquered the lower delta and took the idols of other lugals to her House. It was Bab-Shet-Gur-Shum who called the Thousand Scribes to renounce sorcery and instead to unite the disparate Glyphs into a single written language, and then to found houses of learning. And having done this, Bab-Shet-Gur-Shum had porphyry and chalcedony and malachite brought from the mountains to the south, so that the cities' greatest mason-scribes could erect her Stelae: great pillars on which was carved Bab-Shet-Gur-Shum's Law. One Law for all the cities: harsh and inegalitarian, but clear and applicable to all under Heaven.
 
Yet Bab-Shet-Gur-Shum was not content with rule over men and women. She boldly proclaimed atop her ziggurat-palace that her Law applied even to the Nin-Sish itself. The Queen of Rivers would bend to Bab-Shet-Gur-Shum.
 
And so it was that all Three Comets appeared in the heavens. The Nin-Sish flooded Her banks, drowning the city and the Stelae and proud Bab-Shet-Gur-Shum. And then the very course of the Nin-Sish changed, renouncing E-adish to reconcile with Father Torrent: for if mortals would not show Her respect, then She would go back to Her mate who would. E-adish was left in mucky ruin, its irrigation ditches overrun with scum in which flies and frogs swarmed. No one dares to resettle, and so it lies amid the silty mire, a festering pit rumored to be haunted by all manner of unnatural things.