Editing User:Bill/City of Sepulcher (section)

===Setting===
This game would offer as much dungeon delving as anyone might want or unlimited social interaction. Your group may choose to enter the dungeon after procuring a license from the office of adventurer relations or you can pursue power and wealth above ground. The dungeon over which Sepulcher has grown is said to be the ruins of an ancient city and its catacombs. Legend has it that in the deepest recesses of the catacombs are ancient tombs containing the entire wealth of the empire that once made its capital here. Only the most learned of seers know the true name of the lost city and that the very utterance of it is accursed. How true these legends are is debatable, but several times a year the survivors of one band or another emerge from the pit bearing golden coins minted by no remembered kingdom and artifacts of great value.

The city is ruled by a mysterious Unseen Council that is rumored to be made up of powerful mages, demons, ghosts, disguised dragons, or any number of other outlandish claims. Some claim that the council is actively preventing the discovery of the ancient treasure of the fallen empire. Others believe that it is all a farce and that the council has intentionally seeded the dungeon with small amounts of gold to keep a steady traffic of adventurers coming into the city. All that is known to be fact is that the Unseen Council demands a heavy toll from those that would enter the lost city and that they seize the maps of any who return from the catacombs.

The trade guilds are powerful as well and enforce significant tithes on anyone plying his or her arts in Sepulcher, with which they pay several mercenary companies ostensibly tasked with protecting their members. Working as a cooper, mason, or spellcaster in Sepulcher is enormously expensive and the cost is passed on to the customer. Due to this many unsuspecting adventurers find themselves bankrupted by a single journey to the lost city. The Hidden Society's ranks swell with these castoffs and the trade guilds garner easy justification for their tithes by pointing out the rising wave of crime in the city.