Second Adventure based in the north
Nameless is a former slave that shook off the effects of chemical addiction and exalted in secret . he desires to foment a rebellion in these slave provinces and have the slaves overthrow their own masters. He found a manse that he attuned to, that in another life he owned. He eschewed his own given name because it represents his old life.
The region that he was enslaved was formerly called the Fire Opal Principality, now called Dehenna. Built in the mountains it is the least populous with only about 660,000 slaves and two cities, Dehenna 60,000, the capital and smelting operation for the produce and Jade Depot 10,000, the transfer site to the Realm of all goods produced. The latifundiae here mostly have 300 people set in five mountain valleys along the coast. Each valley runs north south and each valley has several mountain spurs. This all means that rebellion rarely spreads here. Mining here is a combination of open pit, shaft and placer mines; it is all dangerous and with a drugged out workforce, little safety is enforced. All the agricultural output is consumed by the populous and all the minerals are exported with some food and drugs imported.
Inahjal still rugged, but the mountains are far to the west, this is an agricultural tributary. The land is flat and thus the latifundiae are more evenly placed, but still lightly populated at close to 300. The total population of the satrap is over 1.5 million, Inahjal in the center 70,000, and two costal ports with 15,000 apiece.
Serrat less rugged but still poor landscape manages to average out to 600 per latifundiae and about three million slaves, more in the south and less in the north towards the shadowland. Serrat located on the coast has 90,000 slaves and two small cities to the east and west on the coast of about 10,000, with third centrally located administrative city in the center at 30,000 slaves.
Amber River is lush by comparison; the hinterlands forested and the river plain fertile. The average latifundiae has about a thousand slaves, more in the river valley and more toward the coast. Four cities line the river valley, three averaging 25,000 and the capital, Amber River 100,000 on the coast bring the population to in excess of fifteen million slaves.
Latifundiae are 300-3000 slaves strong. Ten percent are guards or soldiers and one percent are administrators. Most of the guards work the same hours as the slaves but one in ten work nights and tend the roving attack dogs. Guards do not get the debilitating drugs but are still high most of the time. The administrators are on still another set of drugs. The administrators own all the slaves in the latifundiae, guards actually owning a portion of the slaves that the administrators do not own. There is one overseer in each latifundiae and they in turn own the guards and the administrators.
Overseer owns three administrators,àAdministrator owns ten guards and thirty-nine labourers , àGuards own five labourers.
Each latifundiae is surrounded by a thick hedge where possible, in the mountains a difficult to pass rise or wall and there is one road leading to the outside. This road leads to a central road circles until it meets itself. There are a total of seven latifundiae connected to this road in this manner and one road that heads out into the rest of the Satrapy. A Patrician typically owns the seven overseers for this cluster in his manor there are the house guards and servants about twenty total all slaves and there are the resident Monks for the cluster or grape. The Monks and Patrician family are not slaves. This would mean that one Patrician would own 2100 - 21,000 slaves. Seven Patricians report to a higher level Dynast, patrician or lost egg who might actually own those slaves or more (14,700 – 147,000). This higher level would be more important in determining quotas for the region or grape cluster. Seven of these regional managers have a provincial, or grape vine, leader who is without doubt exalted and has a direct hand in managing the area at least in theory, controls the provinces slaves (102,900 – 1,029,000). One final layer in the clusters brings it to farm level, and one further Satrap or plantation. The bureaucracy at the two final levels includes a lot of duplication of the lower levels and lots of opportunity for corruption, but still the majority of the work is still done with slaves and there are even in Amber river. No more than a few thousand citizens and a dozen Dynasts.
As above save change the cities so that the largest city is on the coast, where a Dragon of the Eighth Legion is present along with their auxiliary units, sappers, siege units and cavalry which is used primarily as messengers. Also in the Capitol are enough naval ships to carry the Dragon if the need arises. In addition at any time there are up to a dozen ships of the Blue Feet in port providing escort to trade ships and patrolling the waters nearby. Also there may be a few Guild trade ships carrying drugs and other items of trade.
The hedges are made of holly, which is evergreen and would help against undead, and additionally is very dense and prickly good for stopping slaves from escaping. Moreover, in regions with undead problems there are ward posts set outside the hedges to ward of the dead. In the mountains, regions outside the hedges are warded with salt if it is an area of importance.
The important buildings in the village are the Manor, if there is one, the administration house, the temple, the barracks for the Scale from the Eighth Legion (25 legionaries, one cavalry and one engineer who maintains the walls and one scatter catapult plus one Scalelord), the barracks of the guards, the kitchens, the slave dormitories and the warehouses. The portions of the town that are critical to the operation of the plantation are built of stone, and the rest are built of wood. The barracks, the manor, administration and drug warehouse are made of stone. The drug warehouse is warded against fire and is kept locked at all times, but it is in no way especially secure, as if there is a revolt, the Dynasts hope that the slaves would break into this building over the rest.
The priest in the temple is the Thaumatugy expert in the plantation and it is their responsibility to maintain the wards as well as conduct the services to the gods.
There were additional measures put in place in different slave states. One such measure was to isolate the slaves from other groups. Within Dehenna each of the plantations or mining center clusters operates in a different language. The slaves know dialects from Woodspeak, Firespeak, Waterspeak and Riverspeak, but the communication between the administrators is in Low Realm. The city language is generally Low Realm. Further from the Coast and far from Guild interaction, Riverspeak is another language used, but none of the slaves is taught Airspeak. The idea was that rumours would spread slower inside the state and escapees would have difficulty dealing with outsiders. Also since the language taught to the slaves is of an obscure dialect.
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