Feb 18, 2018 2:53 pm
Episode 2
At-A-Glance Episode Reference and Directory (ongoing)
Region: Heshba (expansion info here)
Specific Area: Gelshemish, aka The City of Secrets, aka The Hidden City, fka The City at the Center of the World.
City Districts: The Plaza, Brick District, Shrine District, Regent District, Canals, The Swamp, Haran, Sarcoma
Specific City Locales:
• The Gleaming Market
• The Hall of the Nasi
• The Red Bastion of Midrad aka The Sealed Citadel
• The Circle of the Valiants
• The Garden Palace
• The Old Temple section
• The Cursed Palace / The House of Adriyelat
Close Setting Features and Locations:
• Jara Hili: an ancient forest that surrounds Gelshemish
• Jasher River: a wide slow-moving river, flowing west to east, on the banks of which Gelshemish sits
Wider Setting Features and Locations:
• Hodel River: a large river, flowing south to north, that cuts through central Heshba. The route by which the party traveled from the Alornic Sea and into the Heshba heartland
• Goelmorel: small village on the edge of Jara Hili, the last settlement before the caravan launch into the forest
• Osher: a riverside town on the Hodel, where the Korvaran longship is docked
• Jabez: aka Crown of the Hodel, a busy river city just a short ways inland from the Alornic Sea coastline on the Hodel River, where the party stayed for about a month and a half to get stabilized after crossing the Alornic Sea
NPCs:
• Valates (deceased): field leader of the Iron Legions, captain of the Iron Eagle Korvaran longship
• Gibon: Heshbaan debtor slave freed by the party and hired on as a servant and translator
• Amit: Heshbaan debtor slave freed by the party and hired on as a laborer/carrier servant
• Koral: Gilded Armsman field officer, a Bezil (Captain), original manager of caravan through Jara Hili, assaulted and infected by robed figure in Jara Hili
• Yasi: Gilded Armsman junior officer, an Ensha (Lieutanant), took over caravan leadership when Koral was incapacitated
• Oram: Gilded Armsman troop leader, a Ron (Sergeant), who built friendship with the party during the caravan through Jara Hili
• Kurios Sostias Medios: landowner nobleman from Lepidon in Pylos, part of same incoming caravan
• Don Artemona: noble from Kortella, part of incoming caravan, carried in on shoulder cart
• The N’hanum: aka The Bearded Traveler, mysterious swordsman who was seen riding a horse to Goelmorel, later involved in the nighttime conflict in Jara Hili, later departed from the caravan after recovering lost laborers
• Zuri Tzofar: Honorable Magistrate that was originally assigned as sponsor to the party, before party elected to take assignment with Balanser
• Aeuli: head servant and translator for Honorable Zuri Tzofar
• Balanser: Honorable Magistrate to whom the party is assigned as sponsor and liaison while in the city
• Avikam: guard and shieldbearer to Honorable Balanser
• Hasa: house manager and primary servant of Honorable Balanser, expert translator
• Imin Bash: elder who owns the house where the party is based in Gelshemish
• Ranel: head mistress of female servants at the House of Imin Bash, speaks Yuoric
• Cedrio: called Bronzehanded, Kortellan gladiator, an old friend of Ivor’s from the Helm of Nicor, now a manager at the Circle of the Valiants
• Ghurat: Heshbaan co-manager at the Circle of the Valiants
• Hamamid: Bishtu co-manager at the Circle of the Valiants
• Acastus: a known Korvaran field commander of the Iron Legions, son of Marabus, older brother to Valates
• Gon Brosh: Venerable High Consul, a high ranking government official through which Balanser would make requests and proposals of exchange on behalf Kray as a visiting Jeresian nobleman
• San-san: local Heshban convicted murderer, sentences to death in the arena, has survived and even thrived as a contender at the Circle of Valiants, playing the secutor role
• Mamdouh: (deceased) Sekeri slave fighter at the Circle of Valiants, was learning retiarius role, briefly assigned to train under Ivor, slain in the arena by San-San
• Manshesh: a carpenter who has a shop in Canals District, who was said to have sent a trailer to spy on Kray and Thorn after the social at the Hall of the Nasi
• Sarasat Bandecca: wife of the Sar, originally introduced herself to Thorn as "Bandi from Aroksas"
• Kosha: chariot driver who works for Balanser
• Palla Ba: Seetan doctor and "attendant of special knowledge" who works for Sar Yakud
• Lok: son of Palla Ba, also works for the Sar
• Atraharsis: Hechesi tribal leader, apparently has a more rural warlike wing of the Hechesi who live outside of the city in the Jara Hili forest
• Sergius: Korvaran legionnaire, part of the Iron Legions who are deployed in Gelshemish, guard on duty when Magistrate Eannautum was assasinated
• Honorable Eannatum: (deceased) magistrate slain by Dug-nuna the Stabber at the chariot showcase at the track before race day
• Ariav Talel: influential Nasi landowner in Haran, also owner of the race track
• Dug-nuna: (deceased) an assassin, member of The Stabbers, who assassinated Magistrate Eannautum but was later killed by Sergius.
• Shalanum: market house headmaster who arranged for Sizhen's arrival in the city and provides lodging for him
• Ra u nak: Seetan owner of the tea shop The Mountains of the Moon
• Nahid: a Ron (sergeant) in the Holy Gilded Armsmen, knows Yashub, present after the assassination of Magistrate Eannautum
• Honorable Puzar-Allala: owner of Cosmel, the Tan Bishtu horse that won the most recent Fast Horse Race at the Haran Track
• Hosco: champion race chariot driver
• Amarsin: merchant's daughter who Ivor took to race track
• Baqi and Jattab: Bishtu laborers who work for Ra u nak during busy times at the shop or for special catering jobs
• Basz-durba: (deceased) bug-like demonic, referred to as "the chasme", from the Underworld
• Elam: the swordsman leader of the Cursed, faction within the Cursed Adriyalet Palace
• Namtur: hulking fully-armored myrmidon, member of the Cursed
• Akkeen: one of the tattooed twins of the Cursed, perhaps the more talkative one
• Adar-Malic: one of the tattooed twins of the Cursed, perhaps the quieter one
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Factions, Mysteries, Targets, Legends, Rumors, and other Variables:
• The Red Bastion of Midrad, and later pictured
• The Scriptures of the Replica of Seki
• The Pale Star
• The Jewels of Ninsunu
• The Key to the Small Irons Gate (later updated)
• Sar Yakud and the Nasi
• The Holy Gilded Armsmen
• The Dasnishi
• The Hechesi (opinions here, here)
• The Hileli (info here, opinion here)
• The Doresh Mensha
• The Stabbers
• Rama Ash
• Iz Jeddriss
• Humbaba
• Agnon-Sami
• The Korvarans (The Iron Legions)
• History of Devils in Gelshemish
• The Cursed Palace
• Lost Treasure of the Adriyelat Kings
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At-A-Glance Episode Reference and Directory (ongoing)
Region: Heshba (expansion info here)
Specific Area: Gelshemish, aka The City of Secrets, aka The Hidden City, fka The City at the Center of the World.
City Districts: The Plaza, Brick District, Shrine District, Regent District, Canals, The Swamp, Haran, Sarcoma
Specific City Locales:
• The Gleaming Market
• The Hall of the Nasi
• The Red Bastion of Midrad aka The Sealed Citadel
• The Circle of the Valiants
• The Garden Palace
• The Old Temple section
• The Cursed Palace / The House of Adriyelat
Close Setting Features and Locations:
• Jara Hili: an ancient forest that surrounds Gelshemish
• Jasher River: a wide slow-moving river, flowing west to east, on the banks of which Gelshemish sits
Wider Setting Features and Locations:
• Hodel River: a large river, flowing south to north, that cuts through central Heshba. The route by which the party traveled from the Alornic Sea and into the Heshba heartland
• Goelmorel: small village on the edge of Jara Hili, the last settlement before the caravan launch into the forest
• Osher: a riverside town on the Hodel, where the Korvaran longship is docked
• Jabez: aka Crown of the Hodel, a busy river city just a short ways inland from the Alornic Sea coastline on the Hodel River, where the party stayed for about a month and a half to get stabilized after crossing the Alornic Sea
NPCs:
• Valates (deceased): field leader of the Iron Legions, captain of the Iron Eagle Korvaran longship
• Gibon: Heshbaan debtor slave freed by the party and hired on as a servant and translator
• Amit: Heshbaan debtor slave freed by the party and hired on as a laborer/carrier servant
• Koral: Gilded Armsman field officer, a Bezil (Captain), original manager of caravan through Jara Hili, assaulted and infected by robed figure in Jara Hili
• Yasi: Gilded Armsman junior officer, an Ensha (Lieutanant), took over caravan leadership when Koral was incapacitated
• Oram: Gilded Armsman troop leader, a Ron (Sergeant), who built friendship with the party during the caravan through Jara Hili
• Kurios Sostias Medios: landowner nobleman from Lepidon in Pylos, part of same incoming caravan
• Don Artemona: noble from Kortella, part of incoming caravan, carried in on shoulder cart
• The N’hanum: aka The Bearded Traveler, mysterious swordsman who was seen riding a horse to Goelmorel, later involved in the nighttime conflict in Jara Hili, later departed from the caravan after recovering lost laborers
• Zuri Tzofar: Honorable Magistrate that was originally assigned as sponsor to the party, before party elected to take assignment with Balanser
• Aeuli: head servant and translator for Honorable Zuri Tzofar
• Balanser: Honorable Magistrate to whom the party is assigned as sponsor and liaison while in the city
• Avikam: guard and shieldbearer to Honorable Balanser
• Hasa: house manager and primary servant of Honorable Balanser, expert translator
• Imin Bash: elder who owns the house where the party is based in Gelshemish
• Ranel: head mistress of female servants at the House of Imin Bash, speaks Yuoric
• Cedrio: called Bronzehanded, Kortellan gladiator, an old friend of Ivor’s from the Helm of Nicor, now a manager at the Circle of the Valiants
• Ghurat: Heshbaan co-manager at the Circle of the Valiants
• Hamamid: Bishtu co-manager at the Circle of the Valiants
• Acastus: a known Korvaran field commander of the Iron Legions, son of Marabus, older brother to Valates
• Gon Brosh: Venerable High Consul, a high ranking government official through which Balanser would make requests and proposals of exchange on behalf Kray as a visiting Jeresian nobleman
• San-san: local Heshban convicted murderer, sentences to death in the arena, has survived and even thrived as a contender at the Circle of Valiants, playing the secutor role
• Mamdouh: (deceased) Sekeri slave fighter at the Circle of Valiants, was learning retiarius role, briefly assigned to train under Ivor, slain in the arena by San-San
• Manshesh: a carpenter who has a shop in Canals District, who was said to have sent a trailer to spy on Kray and Thorn after the social at the Hall of the Nasi
• Sarasat Bandecca: wife of the Sar, originally introduced herself to Thorn as "Bandi from Aroksas"
• Kosha: chariot driver who works for Balanser
• Palla Ba: Seetan doctor and "attendant of special knowledge" who works for Sar Yakud
• Lok: son of Palla Ba, also works for the Sar
• Atraharsis: Hechesi tribal leader, apparently has a more rural warlike wing of the Hechesi who live outside of the city in the Jara Hili forest
• Sergius: Korvaran legionnaire, part of the Iron Legions who are deployed in Gelshemish, guard on duty when Magistrate Eannautum was assasinated
• Honorable Eannatum: (deceased) magistrate slain by Dug-nuna the Stabber at the chariot showcase at the track before race day
• Ariav Talel: influential Nasi landowner in Haran, also owner of the race track
• Dug-nuna: (deceased) an assassin, member of The Stabbers, who assassinated Magistrate Eannautum but was later killed by Sergius.
• Shalanum: market house headmaster who arranged for Sizhen's arrival in the city and provides lodging for him
• Ra u nak: Seetan owner of the tea shop The Mountains of the Moon
• Nahid: a Ron (sergeant) in the Holy Gilded Armsmen, knows Yashub, present after the assassination of Magistrate Eannautum
• Honorable Puzar-Allala: owner of Cosmel, the Tan Bishtu horse that won the most recent Fast Horse Race at the Haran Track
• Hosco: champion race chariot driver
• Amarsin: merchant's daughter who Ivor took to race track
• Baqi and Jattab: Bishtu laborers who work for Ra u nak during busy times at the shop or for special catering jobs
• Basz-durba: (deceased) bug-like demonic, referred to as "the chasme", from the Underworld
• Elam: the swordsman leader of the Cursed, faction within the Cursed Adriyalet Palace
• Namtur: hulking fully-armored myrmidon, member of the Cursed
• Akkeen: one of the tattooed twins of the Cursed, perhaps the more talkative one
• Adar-Malic: one of the tattooed twins of the Cursed, perhaps the quieter one
•
•
•
Factions, Mysteries, Targets, Legends, Rumors, and other Variables:
• The Red Bastion of Midrad, and later pictured
• The Scriptures of the Replica of Seki
• The Pale Star
• The Jewels of Ninsunu
• The Key to the Small Irons Gate (later updated)
• Sar Yakud and the Nasi
• The Holy Gilded Armsmen
• The Dasnishi
• The Hechesi (opinions here, here)
• The Hileli (info here, opinion here)
• The Doresh Mensha
• The Stabbers
• Rama Ash
• Iz Jeddriss
• Humbaba
• Agnon-Sami
• The Korvarans (The Iron Legions)
• History of Devils in Gelshemish
• The Cursed Palace
• Lost Treasure of the Adriyelat Kings
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