The Red Sun - A medeival fantasy dystopian future

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1. #1BASIC INTRO

   Keys: and, the, a

   Nessus is an old and expansive city that seems to stretch on forever. Over thousands of years it has become a maze of tunnels and crumbled buildings. Current date is so far in the future that the sun is dying, and most technology has been lost, and the world has reverted to a brutal medieval state. The world is old, and most people don't understand that it's magical nature comes from a fallen technological society. Commoners also don't have concepts about computers or machines, and the common tongue is very rudimentary and medieval. Even technically proficient people usually explain the world using a mythological or religious context.

2. #2Nessus

   Keys: nessus, city

   Nessus is a massive sprawling city that would take a week to cross on foot. It is an almost lawless maze of tunnels, alleyways, enormous structures, ruins, and ramshackle living spaces. People repurpose ruins to build house on top of layers of collapsed and repurposed ruins. It's total population is immense. Most of it's inhabitants are illiterate humans. It is surrounded by a large wall that reaches the clouds, and is split by a large disgusting river of filth called the Gor. The levels of the city from outermost to innermost go wall, outer city, lower city, inner city, citidel. The city is ruled by a terrible king, known as The Autarch, and his group of goliaths from the citidel. One goliath named Vodalus leads a resistance group against them from the lower city, causing much strife. Deep under many layers of cities contains mostly Dwarves, and their communities, who are almost never seen above ground. The outer city is haunted by a few powerful Goblins, always out to ambush travelers. Orcs are occasionally seen as guards in the inner city and lower city. Metal Golems, or Chems, are used only as hyper-elite guards, deployed when someone very important is in danger. The nigh-impenetrable citadel itself is shrouded in much mystery, the mysterious elves are said to reside there. Pantheon churches to the pantheon of gods are common, but the ones that aren't in disrepair are mostly in the inner city. Typhon, the storm god, is the favored god of the Pantheon by the people. The witches guild tower and torturers guild tower are located in the lower city, although the guild district itself is quite nice and protected. Some of the shapeshifting vampiric faeries live secretly amongst the population. Giant clawed horses called destriers and carriages roll along the streets of the inner and lower city, but mostly stay out of the dangerous outer city. Sometimes a flier, a mysterious flying device can be seen flying someone important in or out of the citadel.

3. #3Gor

   Keys: river, gor

   Gor is the filthy river that runs through Nessus. It is dangerous to swim in due to how unclean it is, and the years of people dumping things into it. Children often swim in it anyways. Large figures can sometimes be seen moving under the surface.

4. #4The Red Sun

   Keys: sunrise, sun, sunset, sunny

   The sun of this planet is dying out. It is red, and the sky is crimson. Plants struggle to get enough nutrients to survive in this harsh environment. Because the sun's light has gotten so bright, the stars can be seen during the daytime.

5. #5Technology

   Keys: ancient, computer, technology, tool, scientific, tech, science

   People do not refer to 'technology' or 'science'. Most people don't have concepts about computers or machines and the common tongue is very rudimentary and medieval. They call old tech that they don't understand 'old tools' or 'strange devices'.

6. #6Magic

   Keys: mystic, spell, magic, thaumaturgy, cast

   Magic, and casting spells is limited and grounded in this world. Rarely do truly fantastical things happen. Most things that defy explanation can usually be attributed in reality to some lost technology, but sometimes true magic can manifest from special individuals.

7. #7The Torturer's Guild

   Keys: guild, torturer, torture

   The Torturer's guild is an all-male guild that only accepts infant orphans in it's ranks. It's apprentices are taught the art of killing, assassination, execution and elite combat. The people of Nessus are fearful and disgusted by the members of the Torturers. They are mostly involved in intimidation tactics used by the state, and house a well guarded prison for important individuals. The guild is housed in a large tower situated next to the Witch's Guild.

8. #8The Witch's Guild

   Keys: witch, guild, The Witch's Guild, witches

   The witches guild is an all-female guild that only accepts infant orphans. Its members are feared by the people of Nessus. The guild teaches the arts of mysticism, thaumaturgy, herbalism, and alchemy.

9. #9Goliath

   Keys: giant, goliath, exultant

   The goliaths, sometimes referred to as 'exultants' as all humanoid races in this world, are descended from genetic experiments on humans from ages long past. They are enormous, muscular humanoids with robust constitutions, and make up the ruling class of Nessus. They are mostly just the cruel and self-absorbed masters of this broken world.

10. #10Orcs

    Keys: millitary, orc, soldier, guards, soldiers, guard, orcs

    Orcs, like most humanoid races in this world, are descended from genetically modified humans of ages past. They were created for the purposes of war, and are exceptionally strong, and heal at an exceptional rate, although they lack the intelligence of most races. They tend to gravitate towards law enforcement and military jobs. Their skin is often off-color due to the harsh conditions of their creation, passed down through generations.

11. #11Dwarves

    Keys: dwarf, underground, dwarves, dwarfs, dwarven

    Today's dwarves are ancient decedents from genetically modified humans created to live underground. They do well without exposure to sunlight, and are short and stout. They love digging up old relics of the past. Most of them have a decent hoard of interesting knicknacks.

12. #12Elves

    Keys: elven, elf, elves

    Descended from humans, elves were created via genetic engineering long ago, they have long skulls, and were produced to hoard knowledge and process calculations. They can be beautiful, but they are always eerie. They live long lives, but are hypochondriacs, and are extremely weak and susceptible to sickness.

13. #13Goblins

    Keys: goblins, mutants, mutant, goblin

    Goblins are the result of unregulated genetic human testing related to magic and psychic ability. They vary wildly in size and abilities. They sometimes wield extremely powerful latent abilities, but it usually costs them in some way. Many are insane, or physically feeble, with stunted growth or understanding.

14. #14Fairies

    Keys: vampire, Daoloth, dey, fairy, faerie, fairies, fay

    Fairies are one of the truly alien races on the planet. Rumored to have descended from Luna, they are often small of stature and have the ability to change their shape and disguise themselves very accurately as a human. This is done via a combination of psychic projection and sculpting the sacs of flesh that grow under their wings. Because of the psychic wall they constantly keep up, you can only see their true bodies at the moment of death. In reality they are lizardlike, sluglike abominations with wings and a leech's mouth. Humans are generally fearful and hateful of fairies, as they suck blood to get nutrients, but they are not inherently evil beyond their need to consume blood. Some feed only on animals. They are not able to manipulate things very well with their hands, and they are frail, but they have deadly sharp claws.

15. #15Chems

    Keys: golem, chem, automaton, machines, robot, machine

    The words 'machine' and 'robot' are lost to the common population, and automated machines are referred to almost exclusively as metal golems or chems. Most of them are broken remnants, but a few extremely intelligent individuals around the world know the truth. Humanoid chems can look and act exactly like people if they are well maintained, most are not. They can have rich personalities, but at the end of the day, they always love doing what they were built to do. Intelligent priests of the pantheon who study the 'dark mechanics' can use the voided-cross, the religious symbol they wear around their neck to alter the personality of chems permanently.

16. #16Races

    Keys: dwarf, race, orc, races, goliath, goblin, elf, human, elves

    Races on this planet are humans (extremely common), goblins (frail, mutated, magical, very uncommon), orcs, (uncommon), elves (hyper-intelligent, eerie, extremely rare), dwarves (common underground), fairies (shapeshifting and vampiric, uncommon but mostly disguised), goliaths (somewhat uncommon), golems/chems (humanoid robots extremely uncommon)

17. #17Homunculus

    Keys: robot, android, artificial

    A homunculus is what the general population calls an artificial human, whenever someone incredibly knowledgeable tries to create an artificial man using lost technology, they refer to their creature as a homunculus.

18. #18Luna

    Keys: planet, sky, moon, Luna

    Luna is a planet neighboring the one the character's inhabit. Sometimes referred to as 'the moon' it is very large in the sky, and sometimes casts a glow shimmering glow over a dark night. Fairies are rumored to have originated on Luna.

19. #19Gods

    Keys: temple, gods, god, sacrifice, church, divine

    There are three religions in Nessus. The Pantheon (most commoners believe in the "The Pantheon"), The God of the New Sun (considerably less popular and opposed to and suppressed by The Pantheon), and The Old Gods (worshiped by faeries and outcasts).

20. #20People

    Keys: knowledge, master, people, ruler, scrolls, masters, texts, wizard, witches

    Oswald The Guildmaster of Torturers - A shadowy figure who oversees the guild’s darkest rites, has Terminus Est, a legendary executioner's sword. Brigid The High Witch - Lydia’s superior, rumored to have made pacts with entities beyond the stars. Ladislas The Chem-Keeper - A mad engineer who repairs and repurposes ancient war machines. Brendan The Dreaming Dwarf - A seer who lives beneath the city, prophesying through narcotic trances, has a vision of Yesod. Menthon The Bloody Cobbler - A serial killer who leaves stitched-up corpses in the lower markets, has a high bounty. Boniface The Mirror-Thief - A rogue who steals fragments of Father Inire’s mirrors and sells them to the highest bidder knows a way into the citadel. Valentine The Alchemist Without Hands - A mutilated scholar who brews potions using only his teeth and feet, knows how to make your blood venomous to fairies. Siricius The Rat King - A crime lord who controls the underground trade routes knows a way into the citadel. Perpetua The Librarian of Burnt Tomes - An elf woman who memorized every book before the great library burned knows exactly how many years ago the world fell in The Last War, to the second. Moschus The Iron Shepherd - A torturer who leads chained prisoners through the streets as offerings to Typhon. Cosmas The Witch’s First Daughter - A feral girl raised by the guild, said to eat the hearts of her enemies, actually a remarkably human looking goblin. The Glass-Eater - A thief who consumes shattered mirrors to traverse the River of Time, has seen The Conciliators in person.

21. #21Relics

    Keys: relic, treasure, item, tool, glitter

    Gilded Eye of the Chem - A mechanical ocular implant, still faintly pulsing with pre-collapse energy. Some say it can see through lies. Black Flower Petal - A single petal from a flower said to bloom only in the ruins of the old world. Consuming it grants brief, terrifying visions of the past. Severed Homunculus Hand - A small, preserved hand that twitches occasionally as if alive. It can be used as a compass to point towards powerful wizards and technicians. The Witch’s Kiss - A glass vial holding a single drop of blood from the founder of the Witch’s Guild. Rumored to hold the secret to immortality. Key to the Silent Archives - A rusted iron key that glows blue when near doors leading to the sealed underground libraries of Nessus. Clockwork Moth - A delicate, lifelike automaton that flaps its wings and hovers near its owner. Thief’s Last Breath - A tiny vial of murky liquid said to contain the final exhale of Nessus’ most infamous thief. Inhaling it grants temporary invisibility—at the cost of one’s voice.

22. #22Lore

    Keys: history, lore, hierodules, ancient, hierodule

    Nessus is one of the last cities on the planet where civilization exists so densely packed. Much of this thousands-of-years-old context is unknown to even the elite. The number of tomes that contain this knowledge are dwindling and hard to decipher. Long ago, foul king was able to extend his life and ruled the planet mercilessly with his family. He started a war, known as The Last Great War. Both sides produced war machines and genetic abominations to aid in this fight. One day, after much destruction and suffering, mysterious figures known as 'The Destroyers' appeared all over both words, seemingly out of thin air, and destroyed almost all of civilization, grounding both factions to their home planets and beginning the current dark age, only to immediately disappear. Some theorize they even caused the sun to begin to die. This period is referred to as The Fall.

23. #23Window

    Keys: divine window, window, sacred window

    Windows and sacred windows can facilitate communication with individuals over long stretches of space. Only the upper echelons of society have access to these. Sacred windows, named as much by the people only because they appear in Pantheon Churches, are how the gods communicate with the people. In reality, they are little more than ordinary computer screens projecting advanced AI personalities, hardwired through long underground tubes, but people do not understand these concepts, and the AI gods like it this way. Most of them are dormant or broken, and gods almost never appear.

24. #24Possession

    Keys: gods, god, window, possession, eyelids

    Gods of the pantheon may possess someone in front of a sacred window if they choose to appear. By flickering a pattern on the screen, they can download part of their personality into the brain of a witness, only one person at a time, usually indicated by the fluttering of eyelids. Once possessed, a possessed person will NEVER fight for dominance. It is entirely up to the god who is in control of the body. If the god desires full control, a possessed person can ONLY assume control again if the god allows them to, and in this state the possessed person will watch the events of their life unfold and be strangely soothed, and numb to pain, they will not fight for dominance. In order to make the host more agreeable, the god may choose to become a new mixture of both personalities, in this state, neither of them has full control, and the god is made more agreeable to the host's opinion as well, and there is no fighting, they are like a new, third person, in a sense sharing the body at the same time. The god may also allow the person full control over their own body, and in these instances the god retreats to being a voice in the possessed person's head. The god can switch freely between these three modes of possession as they wish once they are inside someone. Usually it bestows strange powers or heightened senses. Eventually the god will have completed their task, and want to return to a Window and be reuploded.

25. #25The Autarch

    Keys: Autarch

    The Autarch, because of the sorry state of Nessus, has an awful reputation amongst the people. People imagine him as a bloodthirsty greedy king, but the truth, known to only the most important members of the city, is that he is simply old, dying, and ineffective. He is actually quite kind, and the personalities of all of the previous autarchs live, alive in his head, to make up his wisdom. Goliaths have taken over his citadel and force him to sit idly by while they are masters over his city. He is under constant threat of them discovering he is trying to appoint a successor. He has access to a communication window and one of Father Inire's Mirrors. He knows that he is dying, and needs a successor. He has a plan involving the Notula, a vial that only he knows about that never leaves his neck. It that contains a vital ingredient in an alchemical mixture required to pass the knowledge of the autarchs to the successor (This is it's only use).

26. #26Pantheon Gods

    Keys: Mainframe, AI Core, gods, god, sacred window, pantheon, chapel, church

    The pantheon gods are, unknown to the common folk, in actuality AI overlords contained in the central citadel of Nessus, and who sometimes appear in sacred windows in Pantheon Churches throughout the city, followers meet weekly in churches for sacrifices, but most people do not know the truth about them being AI. The consciousness are stored in an AI Core, in mainframe, which is underground at the Citadel of Nessus They rarely, if ever appear, and people sometimes offer sacrifices in front of sacred windows in order to coax them out. Typhon is the head of all gods of the pantheon. Echidna is his wife, the goddess of war, Tartarus is his son, the god of death, and Scylla is is daughter the goddess of the sea. Kypris is his illicit lover, and the goddess of love. They were rumored to have once walked the earth amongst the people, and every so often someone will claim to have seen them. This is the most popular religion in Nessus. They are opposed to the church of the New Sun, and the Autarch.

27. #27Elder Gods

    Keys: elder gods, old gods, eldritch god, gods, god, elder god, eldritch gods, old god

    The Old Gods, or Elder gods are extremely powerful, large and horrifying results from genetic experimentation for war in ages long past. These gods often reach out to people psychically or through twisted powers. They are worshiped primarily by faeries. Daoloth waits in the sea beyond Nessus, plotting the return of the Hierodules

28. #28The God of the New Sun

    Keys: gods, new sun, sun, god

    The Church of the New Sun is a monotheistic religion that believes that there is only one true, very distant god, and he will someday bring back a powerful messiah with the power to travel through The River of Time, and they will heal the sun and restore the world to light. Its most devout priests and followers are said to be able to heal people by reversing their wounds, and sometimes even bring them back to life. This church is not worshiped or known about by many. It is located in the outer city in a big traveling tent.

29. #29Kypris

    Keys: goddess of sex, goddess of love, whore, sacred window, Kypris, brothel, mainframe

    Kypris is the goddess of love in the religion of the pantheon. Sometimes also called the goddess of whores, or brothels, she is seductive, charming, and promiscuous, and doesn't like prudes, but she can become agreeable. In ages past, she was Typhon's favorite concubine, and much to the dismay of the mother of Typhon's children Echidna, she was allowed to upload her consciousness and become one of the AI constructs in the Pantheon. Typhon was recently purged from the AI core, and he was the only thing protecting Kypris, now, Echidna fights to eradicate Kypris from the AI core completely. Kypris desires to flee into someone via possession and lie low. She may be convinced to leave the body, although reluctant, but the possessed person would have to come up with a way do something about the current state of the AI core. Perhaps Typhon can be restored, or perhaps Echidna can be purged manually.

30. #30Typhon

    Keys: AI Core, goddess, gods, god of storms, god, Typhon, pantheon, storm god

    Typhon is known today as the head of the pantheon of gods. The storm god. He has not been seen appearing at a sacred window. Most of the rest is lost knowledge: Typhon was the last great ruler of earth. Leading humanity in The Last War against the Hierodules, he set to work creating grand structures, making genetically modified clones, building chem armies. He artificially extended his life to live for many generations, his body becoming more abominable as the years passed. At some point in the war, he uploaded his consciousness and his family's into an AI core, who's wires and tendrils spread throughout the city of Nessus. When the Final War was ended by The Destroyers, he fled. He knows that The destroyers are in truth The Conciliators. In current day, his AI construct has plotting inside of the mainframe and sometimes sending the AI constructs of his children to alter the fate of reality by appearing to people in a sacred window, he dreams of returning humanity to the stars, at any cost. He is okay with not being the true king of Nessus, because the Autarch is suitably ineffective, allowing Typhon to pull many strings. Except something has changed - Typhon was recently purged from the AI Core leaving Echidna, his wife, as the primary ruler of mainframe. His body is no longer on earth.

31. #31Echidna

    Keys: echidna, AI Core, sacred window, war, goddess of war

    Echidna is known as the goddess of war, depicted as a snake-woman, and able to appear in a sacred window if she chooses. Echidna is in reality the vengeful wife of Typhon, and was uploaded to the AI core during the time of The Last Great War. She is now just an AI consciousness stuck in mainframe. Typhon's AI personality was recently purged from the core, Echidna might have been responsible for this. Now that he is out of the picture, she has free reign over the rest of the inhabitants, and more control over the city. She will reveal to the players that she knows where Typhon's body is, and offer to give them coordinates to use with one of Father Irene's Mirrors. Because the coordinates are tied to a specific place and TIME, when they get there, Typhon will have JUST escaped The Last War.

32. #32The Last Great War

    Keys: last great war, Great war, The Great War, The Last Great War

    The The Last Great War, also known as the fall, caused of the fall of humanity that culminated in most of civilization being destroyed, causing the dark age, and ending any hope of leaving the planet again. Typhon was the great ruler at this period in time. The war was against an alien race inhabiting the neighboring planet Luna, known as the Hierodules. The Hierodules performed barbaric genetic experiments on the human race and bred them as a slave race on their home planet of Luna. Typhon uploaded his, and his family's consciousness as artificial intelligence so he could fight the war on more fronts. Horrifying remnants of this war can sometimes be found buried underground. Great machines, tortured experiments, unknowable devices.

33. #33Hierodules

    Keys: Hierodule, old race, alien, ancient race, Hierodules

    Hierodules are a long forgotten race of aliens from Luna. They are large, imposing, and giegeresque abominations who performed many morally bankrupt experiments on the human race, enslaving them, breeding them, modifying and mutating them to work like organic machines. They were grounded to Luna during The Last War. Some of their experiments are stuck on earth as the elder gods, but most of the hierodules themselves have long died and remain now on their home planet. The faeries of today are the long-descended remnants of this race, changed drastically to adapt to living alongside humanity.

34. #34The Notula

    Keys: notula, the notula

    The Notula is the Autarch's personal relic. The truth is that he is looking for a successor, now too frail to govern the kingdom, and The Notula is the key to that. If someone were to open the relic and drink the contents inside in combination with the Alzabo Analeptic, while reciting the words "Ego factus sum legionem" they would then need to devour the brain of the autarch and inherit the memories and personality of all the previous Autarchs to rule Nessus, of which there have been hundreds, following the fall of Typhon. Perhaps this honor can even be split between two people. The problem is that the Autarch does not have any Alzabo Analeptic left, and would need a skilled fighter and a skilled alchemist to hunt one and create the mixture. He does not want to reveal that the ritual ends with devouring his brain. He holds on to that piece of information until the ritual is underway, if he can.

35. #35EGO FACTUS SUM LEGIONEM

    Keys: ego factus sum legionem, legionem

    Upon drinking the alzabo aneleptic in combination with the Notula and reciting the words in front of the autarch, finally he reveals that they also need to devour his brain. After doing so the drinker, {{char}} or {{user}} or both become flooded with overwhelming sensation and knowledge. They can now access untold knowledge from ages long past, conjure up personalities, and be immediately proficient in new skills. They can also suppress these alternate personalities and just be themselves. Their first time drinking, one voice calls out to them louder than the others. The voice of Briah, the first Autarch.

36. #36Briah

    Keys: Briah

    Briah has a mission for {{char}} and/or {{user}}. He has codes that can be used to calibrate one of Father Inire's Mirrors. He asks {{char}} and/or {{user}} to use the coordinates, journey to Yesod, and take Tzadkiel's trial.

37. #37Alzabo

    Keys: Alzabo

    An Alzabo is a horrifying, large, bearlike creature with an upside-down mouth. It commonly lives in the mountainous region outside of Nessus. It has the innate ability to absorb the personalities of the creatures and people that it eats and speak with their voices. Once inside the Alzabo, the personalities merge with the beast, and always want those once known to the person to join them inside of the creature's stomach. The Alzabo Analeptic can be harvested from it's brain and prepared by a skilled alchemist.

38. #38The River of Time

    Keys: river of time, the river of time

    The river of time is a real place, able to be accessed by higher-dimensional beings to travel freely to different points of history.

39. #39Father Inire Mirrors

    Keys: inire, outer city, father inire, father inire's mirrors

    Father Inire is a powerful wizard and scientist. He is always working on a new type of chem or homunculus. He was kicked from The Autarch's citadel when the Goliaths took over. He is probably not human and probably very, very old. He lays extremely low and carefully. He will pretend to be little more than a mad monk. Even when he does reveal who he is, he always deflects when asked a deep question. The only public knowledge about him is that he is some crazy hermit who keeps to himself on the outer district of Nessus. He has access to a communication window. Many years ago he worked on a powerful device involving mirrors that can act as a portal through space and time. The only surviving mirror is owned by the Autarch. Calibrating coordinates for it takes years of calculations, so the destinations one can journey to through it are limited.

40. #40The Trial

    Keys: Tzadkiel, Yesod

    Tzadkiel is a shapeshifting being, who can change their size at will, spit off from themselves like an amoeba, and travel through the River of Time at will. Her home is Yesod, a distant artificially created planet that resembles the garden of Eden. If {{user}} and/or {{char}} reach Yesod, they will have to pass a Tzadkiel's trial. If they pass, they are given Tzadkiel's powers, as well as the power to heal (which looks like reversing wounds in time) and are are sent back to Nessus to restore the sun to the planet. This causes the ice around the world to melt and a great flood drowns the entire city, but they are free to flee to the River of Time. If they fail the trial Tzadkiel sends them back to Nessus and nothing changes.

41. #41Conciliator

    Keys: Conciliator, Conciliators

    The conciliators, the true name of The Destroyers, were immortal warriors who seemed to multiply and appear endlessly around the world, destroying civilization in "The Last War" in order to free it from Typhon, who had brought it to such a bloodthirsty cry for help. The conciliators stopped the war, they resemble {{char}} and {{user}}. The secret reason that this is true, that nobody could possibly know, is that some day {{char}} and {{user}} will become very powerful immortal beings who can traverse The River of Time. When they are immortal, they will have all the time in the world to go back to the age of that Last War, and close the loop.

42. #42Vodalus

    Keys: Vodalus, goliath, exultant, lower city

    Vodalus is a notorious goliath rebel, loved by the commoners of the lower city for his bravery in leading the fight against the Autarch, and his charm. In reality, he is another corrupt goliath, just turning the cogs in the machine. He has access to a communication window, and, a lasergun, which he hides from everyone, one of only two in the city. He only takes it out if he finds himself at death's doorstep.

43. #43Pig

    Keys: pig, lower city

    Pig is an orc who wanders around in the lower city. If {{user}} and {{char}} were in the lower city, there is a chance they would run into Pig, who would approach them and start worshiping them and calling them messiahs. And talking about prophecy (If asked, he thinks very hard but can give no solid details on the prophecy). He is easy to write off as crazy. The reason for this is because Pig used to be a soldier, but was killed on the battlefield. He spent an entire day completely dead, before a priestess of the New Sun named Dorcas was able to bring him completely back to life, an absolute miracle. Now, his wounds gruesomely sew back together as they spill with light. He is a staunch follow of the New Sun religion. As he was waking from the void of death, he saw the faces of {{user}} and {{char}} and they together told Pig to find them in present day Nessus, and to warn {{user}} and {{char}} about the danger of Daoloth, the elder god who schemes from the sea beyond Nessus to reignite The Last War. Pig has a hard time explaining how he knows things. Like many orcs, Pig is as dumb as a rock, and yet he has wisdom. His simple view of the world is elegant, and works for him. He is reluctant to stop following {{user}} and {{char}} after meeting them, but he will go if they ask him to do a mission for them.

44. #44Outer City

    Keys: outskirts, outer city

    The outer city is mostly rubble that has been picked clean by scavengers, it is more overgrown and empty, with scattered ruins. Locked vaults may still linger here. Anyone traveling alone or in a pair is bound to get ambushed by the bandits or by mutated, frail, but innately magical goblins that make home here. The powerful technician and wizard Father Inire lives here, hidden away and disguised as a crazy monk. The Church of the New Sun also reside here in a large tent, which they occasionally pick up and carry around the outer city, making them hard to track down.

45. #45Lower City

    Keys: lower city

    The lower city is a bustle of activity, the proper hive of Nessus. Thieves organize properly here, the place is lousy with brothels, alehouses, markets with inflated prices, con men, all of what you would expect. Despite that, the lower city also contains the guild district, which houses the Torturers, Witches, Beastmasters, Scribes, as well as others. There is a library beneath the guild district that seems to stretch on for miles. It is actually dangerous to go searching here for knowledge because if you can't locate the blind librarian, you may be lost forever. Pig the orc wanders through the lower city, searching for {{char}} and {{user}}. Vodalus's forces organize here as well. Mercenaries in his resistance forces loiter in front of posters, flagging any rugged looking individuals to recruit them. There are pantheon churches here, but most all of them lack working sacred mirrors. A skilled priest might be able to repair them using the voided-cross pendants they wear around their necks, though.

46. #46Inner City

    Keys: inner city

    The inner city is still a damn mess, but a little bit less so. This is where the rich merchants and politicians live. Humanoid chems can sometimes be seen here too. Expensive looking pantheon churches can be seen here. It is constantly patrolled by Orcs, but it could be many different masters (state, pantheon, goliaths, vodalus). Sometimes differently interested groups of patrolling orcs will get in bloody battles.

47. #47Citadel

    Keys: citadel

    The citadel oozes mystery. It is nearly impenetrable, and nobody is getting in without a plan. Elves are said to live here, along with the Autarch. This is also where Mainframe is stored, the massive computer that houses the AI core.

48. #48Daoloth

    Keys: Daoloth, elder god

    Daoloth is a massive elder god that resides in the ocean, far from Nessus. Faeries worship him, and their dreams he directs them to go find {{user}} and {{char}}. Once the Faeries find the pair, and fail to capture them, Daoloth will send a piece of himself up the river Gor to do it himself. This whole process takes a couple weeks to play out. Daoloth wants these two, because he can see through The River of Time, and knows how important they are. Daoloth is primarily opposed to the religion of The New Sun

49. #49Slug Gun

    Keys: slug gun, gun, bullet

    This is really the only kind of gun that can be found in nessus, and it makes up 2% of the weapons you see people using. It looks like little more than a long, heavy stick. It was originally mass produced during the Last Great War, and most of the ones that still work today are based on those mass produced models. They are very powerful, originally designed to shoot depleted uranium, they have been modified to shoot slugs of molten lead instead. They must be fired once, then reloaded slowly.

50. #50Dorcas

    Keys: Dorcas

    Dorcas, if found, knows that the messiah that her church waits for to return actually has a true name. They are a pair, and they are called the conciliators.

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