February 20
Dancing Sun Beam Tea House
Owner Betrôd Kawai, granddaughter of Ginithra Bergman
Dark hair with bands of golden blonde. She is clearly someone who the Nameless has never met, she has a comely round face with full lips and sparkling eyes, but something more sparks his interest and the name Ginithra bubbles to his lips…
Commander of Guardians Western Province: Steadywater Hammerhands. God Blooded with 3 Essence Fine Blue jade lamellar and white jade gore maul. Without her weapon her hands look like blocks. She is the daughter of a northern Glacier. Her Hair is white and her eyes look like ice, while she has the appearance of frigidity, her smile is generous and reaches her eyes. She remembers the Nameless's predecessor and he finds her appearance very familiar. It is disconcerting. She claims that they were colleagues and nothing ever happened, but a memory of carousing and an admission of love on her part.
Guild money lenders Jafar Darwish, young and has still spent three Winters in Whitewall as ambassador and procurer for the Guild. His Father is a guild factor in the South and used his influence to get his son the position. He has used his position to great effect, acquiring northern rarities and transporting them to the South for southern rarities to be sold in the North. He currently is sitting on a very large stockpile of fire dust and Firedust weapons that he is selling to Whitewall. A light brown complexion with robes of fur cut in a southern fashion, thick even in the summer and thicker in winter.
Antdrin Meltyl Lightsteel Hammerfast, Cheif Smith of Whitewall. Of indeterminate age, his long white hair sits knotted on his head, secured against stray sparks and the fires of the forge. His eyebrows, where they still exist, give a better clue to his age as they are long and bushy. His beard is shorn close to his face and generally he appears unkept. his clothing appears well worn, even his apron has the appearance of many years of thorough use. His hammer and work tools seem to be a mix of White Jade alloy and Orichalcum. The anvil, hammers and tongs, instruments of the bluntest varieties are made of white jade, but the tools of precision, small chisels and files are deep in the work shop and glitter like only Orichalcum can. Earth Aspect 500+ years old exalt.
House Ledaal Dragon Blooded Dehenna
4 DB
Governor and Two Aides
The Governor is Ledaal Catala Murase one of e few of that household to come back to the Realm proper, though it was never his intention to to go to back to the Relam, a place he has never lived. A sorcerer of the Rings of Catala and an active Scavenger Lord he is a black sheep, literally, as he is aspected to Water. He is a sorcerer of some power aided by his Wave Cleaver Diaklave Spell-Cutter that has two effects in addition to its martial capabilities: 1) it lowers the cost of all spells by the Hearthstone rating set in the pommel and 2) it allows the wielder to cast Sapphire Counter Magic at full price if the wielder can use sorcery and can't already.
His aides are both of the House Catala as well, and both Air aspected. One is a sorcerer of limited power and the other is more martial in power.
Ledaal Catala Yakhara sorcerer exceptional armour and fine blade
Ledaal Catala Ignatiz warrior fine armour, exceptional set of throwing Jade throwing axes
One head Administrator
Ledaal Yuasa, disgraced due to recent theft of jade Diaklave. Currently waiting further orders
5 Pat families 100k slaves
House Ledaal patrician families administrating slaves
With about half of all children exalting within the Realm, the other half are forced to take a backseat to the glory of their brothers. While Dragon Blooded will often live for hundreds of years, their mortal brothers don't and live out relatively normal lives in the background often as administrators. House Ledaal, has been around for centuries, it's non exalted members are vast in number.
Ledaal Zhang Dehenna. western spur and Capitol
Ledaal Shuchun Dehenna Western 2 spur
Ledaal Lanfen Delshan. Eastern spur
Ledaal Jiang Delshan. Central spur
Ledaal Baozai Delshan. Eastern 2 spur and regional city Deshan
50 Admins. 1 DB 10k slaves
Graduates of the mortal equivilant to the Spiral Academy, they have no family here, their position is political or by merit. The lone Dragon Blooded administrator is a graduate of the Spiral Academy but Ledaal Tetsurô suffered from poor social standing and thus is here for his first posting. He administers the production in the secondary city of Delshan
1 Dragon of troops 7 DB
One Dragon Lord DB two aides
The Eighth Legion is not the best posting for an aspiring Realm Dragon Blooded, but Dragon Lord is fairly prestigious Cathak Raghatra has accepted the posting here and has risen to this level after three decades of service; he is looking for a change. Fire aspect middling power essence 3
Exceptional Articulated Plate 13L/15B, H9, M-1
Exceptional Grand Daiklave S3, A+3, Dm+13/4, Df+1, R2 one Hearthstone
His aides are more varied, one an older member of his House who insulted someone important and received the double insult of aide to a more junior and less politically connected Exalt, Cathak Barrisek fire aspect essence 4
Exceptional Articulated Plate 13L/15B, H9, M-1
Fine Daiklave S3, A+3, Dm+7, Df+2, R3 three Hearthstones
Two minor artifacts and two servants
Shomdudra a lost egg the rose through the ranks from Scale Lord through Wing Lord and looks as this appointment as aide to the Dragon Lord as a demotion. In reality it shows that House Cathak is interested in adopting her into its ranks. She has been in the ranks for forty years and has gained considerable renown among the rank and file. Earth Aspect essence 4
Fine Reinforced Breastplate 10L/9B, H8, M0
Fine Daiklave S3, A+3, Dm+7, Df+2, R3
Two Wing Lord DB one aide each
As Realm born Dragon blooded wants a position so low as Talon Lord, most of these positions are held by Lost Eggs, but occasionally a House of Bells graduate is given the honour, even if they don't see it as such, Dragon Lords have to have some merit after all, they lead 500 men. Cathak Eruantien is one such spoiled graduate. Essence 2. fire Aspect
Fine Reinforced Breastplate 10L/9B, H8, M0
Fine Daiklave S3, A+3, Dm+7, Df+2, R3 one hearthstone
Eika Aoki is from the Greyfalls area and a Lost Egg who experienced a few years in the Threshold before joining the Realm and has been rising through the ranks for the past decade. A wood aspect with 3 essence
Fine Reinforced Breastplate 10L/9B, H8, M0
Fine Daiklave S3, A+3, Dm+7, Df+2, R3
Twenty mortal Talon lords
50 monks 4 DB
One Immaculate Master and two immaculate aides (form level)
One initiate Immaculate
Earth aspect immaculate, two aides also Earth
Sister Bakra essence 4 perfect Testubo
Brother Tuma Exceptional Goremaul
Sister Kesra fine Testubo
One lost egg Wood aspect.
Sister Estella learned the Immaculate teachings as a child in the Realm and looked up to the Dragon Blooded and the Immaculate Order as the paragons of society so when she exalted she did not hesitate a second before joining the Immaculate Order. Things were tougher than they looked from the outside, but she persevered and completed her training. Sent directly to the Dehenna after completing her intiation to the secrets of the Wood Style, she became disillusioned with the enslavement in the states and tried her best to work within the system she was provided. Her progress within the Wood Style has been stifiled and she has instead focused on healing the slaves. Recently she has discovered a disused first age road and discovered a manse and then a band of escaped slaves on the otherside of the mountains. She has desired that this should be her flock as they were in desperate need of a healer and spiritual guidance. Jade power bow with a wood aspected hearthstone. Essence 3.
March 13
Trading company mishap, bandits north of Gethemane Jafar's company lost.
Nowhere there is trouble, Sister Estella has come to Nowhere and has started to administrate to the people. Intensely dissatisfied and disillusioned with the Immaculate faith that she grew up with she began to bury herself into the work of healing the slaves. In her of time she looked into the more natural settings of the area to calm herself and find her center. On one of these journeys she found the ancient roadway that lead across the mountains and she followed it. It led to another road way and a path, both led to a small firstage town. And near the town She found Nowhere. The people were in a real mess at the time, the winter supply of building logs had dislodged itself somehow and the resulting avelanche of logs had severely injured a number of individuals including the leader, Eiri Draq. That was a a week before she arrived and infection had set in and people were dying. The settlements was in disorder.
Within a couple days, all but the most injured were up and walking and the rest were well on the way to a full recovery.
Estella called the story a fraud from the start, and forced Eiri to tell the truth. He relented and told her that he and his core were setting up a settlement for refugees far away from wars in the Threshold and that they had accepted a few escaped slaves into their mix because they were hard workers they had been planning to set up an independent little settlement and that was it.
Estella thinks there is more to the settlement than that but she felt that it was closer to the truth than the first story, but in the end, she does not care as the people here in need of her guidance and care.
In addition to her advanced Skills (survival, medicine, archery) she sees Nowhere as a place that she can really contribute. Her motivation is to Heal the injured. Under her care the drug addled former slaves recovered faster. In the Slave states, she was constantly in opposition to her motivation in keeping the populous in a drugged stupor.
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My friend has requested that I add the rest of his circle to the mix. I have decided that I should at least have an idea of who they are and where they might be. I also have been keeping his available information limited, he grew up an illiterate slave in a population of slaves that was kept uninformed about the rest of the world, which means I can choose what exists and where over a long time.
My friend is running a story that predates the cannon story in a world that was less affected and less ruined. My story, this story is before the events of cannon, but I have not determined if the setting is going to have the same events. Typically he assumes that it would, because I tend to stick to cannon, but I think this time, it will be a darker version. The Bronze Age of this version is corroded around the edges, shadowlands are larger and more damage has been done. The Solars escape from their prison when it is opened, but more of them are captured. The Solar Purge was sudden and complete with only a few escaping the cage where their souls were imprisoned. Maybe ten maybe less. Maybe the Lunars were captured alongside their solar mates and the few Sidereals that died too, the Solars were the target, but the net caught other fish too. When the cage was opened, the Deathlords and the demons secured the bulk of the souls, instead of half escaping, only a handfull were released, the Lunars were cast from the net and the Sidereals. Creation is outnumbered, and the enemies are at the gate. But there are a few strong Solars that can stand against the onslaught. . ..
It is an idea.
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