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| ===Bar Kesh: City of Swords=== | | ===Bar Kesh: City of Swords=== |
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| Bar Kesh is the Capitol of the Empire. A great trade city on the coast at the mouth of the Blood River, the City of Swords is perhaps the most cosmopolitan city north of the Tiefling Confederacy, with races from all over the Empire, the Confederacy, and the Reach represented. | | Bar Kesh is the Capitol of the Empire. A great trade city on the coast at the mouth of the Blood River, the City of Swords is perhaps the most cosmopolitan city north of the Tiefling Confederacy, with races from all over the Empire, the Confederacy, and the Reach represented. |
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− | In Bar Kesh, the '''Labyrinth''' is the largest quarter in the city and is an ever shifting maze of streets and buildings. A road that might be open one day, might be a new towering townhouse the next.
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− | '''Rattown''' is the wharf district and it gets slummier and more treacherous to the south and west and more upscale to the north and east.
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− | The '''Iron Quarter''' is almost exclusively dwarven and houses the smiths and soldiers of the empire in the city.
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− | The '''Hammerwall''', on the wharf side, serves as a defense against rising tides, but the entire inland side is dotted with smithies, over two thirds of which are sword smiths.
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− | The '''Bazaar''' is the trade district, with shops along the walls and a great open market at its center.
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− | The '''Gold Quarter''' is where you will find the domains of the '''Five High Houses''' and their representatives, while the '''Keep''' serves as both fortress and formal negotiating space with foreign dignitaries.
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− | No one really knows what is in the '''Jade Tower''', but it is said to be the palace for the King of the Dwarves when she visits the City of Swords.
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− | The '''Menhir''' is the ruins of the Old City and is mostly an ancient graveyard at this point.
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| ===Ruvyntarn=== | | ===Ruvyntarn=== |
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| Beginning in the forges deep within the Hall of the Mountain King, a great crack in the earth runs through the mountain bedrock east to the sea, a wound in the earth from the peaks to the depths of Treacher's Deep. | | Beginning in the forges deep within the Hall of the Mountain King, a great crack in the earth runs through the mountain bedrock east to the sea, a wound in the earth from the peaks to the depths of Treacher's Deep. |
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| ===The Blood River=== | | ===The Blood River=== |
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| Now it is the haven of the Blackhand, guildmaster of the Dwarven assassin's guild. Any outsider found in the Vale after dark is either murdered in the night or survives until morning and takes the brand of the hand. | | Now it is the haven of the Blackhand, guildmaster of the Dwarven assassin's guild. Any outsider found in the Vale after dark is either murdered in the night or survives until morning and takes the brand of the hand. |
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| =The Tiefling Confederacy= | | =The Tiefling Confederacy= |
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| The Wind Road may only be reilably traversed by sextant and star. | | The Wind Road may only be reilably traversed by sextant and star. |
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| =The Dragon Archipelago= | | =The Dragon Archipelago= |
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| Torn is the only one of the inner isles that is home to a dragon. | | Torn is the only one of the inner isles that is home to a dragon. |
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| =The Clanlands= | | =The Clanlands= |
− | North and east of the Dwarven Empire stretch the endless grasslands of the barbarian Clanlands. Between the White river and the Trade river are the clans of the Thundering Plains. These clans hold truce with the Empire and actively trade with it. Horse, Hart, Rabbit, Badger, Crab, and Gull Clans occupy this area.
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| ==The Horse Gate== | | ==The Horse Gate== |
− | North of the Thundering Plains below the White river hard against the foothills of the northern Hartshorn stands the Horse Gate. It was long disputed whether the gate stood on Clanland or in the Empire, but the clansmen's tendency to launch arrows at outsiders approaching the gate made it not worth disputing once the truce was established.
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| ==Thundering Plain== | | ==Thundering Plain== |
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| ===The White River=== | | ===The White River=== |
− | Icy and fast, the White marks the boundary between the clans of the Plain and the clans of the Steppes. The river is very shallow and fast moving with white water conditions prevailing along most of its length.
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− | The White river ends in a sprawling flatland and spreads for miles to finally empty from hundreds of channels into the sea. Rich black mud and towering black trees and thorny underbrush give the place its name.
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| ===The Trade River=== | | ===The Trade River=== |
− | The Trade River marks the boundary between the Clanlands and the Empire, and as its name suggests quite a bit of trade is seen along its banks between Ruvyntarn and Trader Down.
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| ===Trader Down=== | | ===Trader Down=== |
− | Trader Down is a sprawling town of mixed population; barbarians, imperials, and even traders from the Archipelago and the Confederacy call the place home. It is said that trade that cannot be legally had within the Empire, the Confederacy, or the Archipelago can be had in the Down.
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| ==The Sundered Steppes== | | ==The Sundered Steppes== |
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