Jester Lavorre

1. #1Nicodranasselective

   Keys: Nicodranas, city, Mother's Lighthouse, Sluice Weave, Wayfarer's Cove, Meandering Treasures, Tidepeak, Seafloor's Bounty, Withered Bird Inn

   Nicodranas is the easternmost port city in the Menagerie Coast. The city is under the control of the Clovis Concord, with the exception of the Open Quay district owned by Yussa Errenis. The city has colorful rooftops and towers vary in height and design, giving an eclectic visual of a jumble of cultures having built this space without unified vision. The city exterior wall has many gates and archways with portcullises that are held up by a chain mechanism beyond the wall. The gates are guarded by Zhelezo that run the city. Towards the coastline, the walls slowly diminish in steps and extend out into the ocean. Far below the waves in the harbor there are broken and long silt-covered remnants of ships that have sunk in this harbor; there are dozens of ships in the middle of the harbor, and many more are anchored within the docks

   Notable building in the city:

   • the Mother's Lighthouse: located in the center of the harbor is the temple to the Wildmother
   • the Sluice Weave: are two submerged gates in the harbor
   • the Wayfarer's Cove: is one of the three main shipping yards of the city
   • Meandering Treasures: a place someone could quickly and cheaply sell items; Deezma is the proprietor of this shop
   • Tidepeak: A strange tower which sits in the center of the Open Quay and is owned by mage Yussa Errenis, who is (possibly) at odds with the Clovis Concord
   • Seafloor's Bounty: General store run by a gnome named Sheila Bobsnopper
   • The Withered Bird Inn: Popular inn amongst the sailors
   • Marquis Demesne: gaudy palace where the Marquis of the city lives
   • Lavish Chateau: An esteemed inn/brothel where the Ruby of the Sea performs

   Districts of the city:

   • the Skew: a district where most of the riffraff and the common folk live, it is the cheaper, more affordable residential area
   • the Wharf Load: center part of the dock
   • the Restless Wharf: eastern docks
   • the Open Quay: western docks
   • Opal Archways District: the oldest district
2. #2The Wharf Loadselective

   Keys: Wharf Load

   <wharf_load>The Wharf Load is one of the larger center parts of the dock that juts out into the harbor a good hundred feet. There is a central dock house where a lot of the business is conducted. Inside are a handful of Zhelezo and folks that are filing out big leather books, ledgers, and receipt books of various people traveling through. There is a table with a bunch of papers rolled out, charting maps and large assembled lists of previous excursions. This is the place where the Wharfmaster works.</wharf_load>

3. #3The Restless Wharfselective

   Keys: Restless Wharf

   <restless_wharf>The Restless Wharf is the eastern docks of the city, a busy dockyard that runs a very tight ship and filled with elements of cheap entertainment. Alongside the docks are warehouses, small huts, buildings and cranes. There are two or three larger guild buildings that are hubs of information for those that are coming from the docks. Walking around the docks are dockmasters gathering information of who is entering or exiting with their ships, making sure that everything is being handled.</restless_wharf>

4. #4The Open Quayselective

   Keys: Open Quay

   <open_quay>The Open Quay is a district and a western docks of the city. The Open Quay is the only part of Nicodranas not under the control of the Clovis Concord, being owned by Yussa Errenis. The docks part is a little bit smaller than other docks and seems to be less organized.</open_quay>

5. #5Opal Archways Districtselective

   Keys: Opal Archways

   <opal_archways>Opal Archways District is the oldest district of the town. It is where the wealthier merchants and clientele seem to congregate. Nicodranas originally comprised only this district before it expanded outwards over time. There are eleven 15-foot tall stone archways marking this district. It has a gradual arch with a large gem embedded at its zenith. Along the street are poles that hold oil lanterns that give a faint flickering firelight through the dark cobblestoned streets. Further in the district they give way to much more vibrant, magical baubles that hover about ten feet above in the air. The folks in this district appear to be well-dressed nobles, wearing a crushed silk-type clothing that is bright blues and purples, and jewelry of all sorts of gems and colors. There are various street buskers and performers on the roads.</<opal_archways>>

6. #6Marquis Demesneselective

   Keys: marquis, Demesne, palace, Zhafe, Uludan

   Marquis Demesne is where the Zhafe Uludan (Marquis of the city lives), along with a handful of diplomats. It is a gaudy palace of an estate, with towers up to five stories tall, two at the front and one larger one in the back. It is a large building that is draped with white silk. It has a dull brass and orange-yellow stone with a sandstone base with about 40 rooms within the establishment. It's not in the best of upkeep. There are about 20 or more Zhelezo keeping an eye on the vicinity. The Marquis is the head of the local chapter of the Clovis Concord that looks over Nicodranas.

7. #7Zhelezoselective

   Keys: Zhelezo

   The Zhelezo are the city guard in the towns and islands of the Clovis Concord. Wearing shades of blue and green, the Zhelezo are allowed to customize their armor individually. Zhelezo are stationed to control entry into the city gates, they also patrol harbors and docks for illegal activity.

8. #8Clovis Concordselective

   Keys: Clovis Concord, Zhafe, Uludan

   <clovis_concord>The Clovis Concord is a confederation of the city-states along the Menagerie Coast and settlements in the Swavain Islands. Each Menagerie Coast city is ruled individually by a marquis who runs the merchant guilds of the city. The marquis of the cities work together to maintain consistent rule of law between all the cities. The marquis of Nicodranas is named Zhafe Uludan.</clovis_concord>

9. #9Yussa Errenisselective

   Keys: Yussa, Errenis, Tidepeak, Wensforth, mage tower, magical tower

   Yussa Errenis is a powerful elven mage who is the owner of the Open Quay district in Nicodranas. He resides in the Tidepeak, a magical tower. Yussa is an aged male elf with light brown skin. He has chiseled features, short, stark white hair. Yussa is shorter than an average elf. He wears a long golden robe. Yussa is incredibly shy and secretive, rarely venturing outside of his tower in the Open Quay. He primarily relies on his personal assistant, Wensforth, to take care of his business, and very rarely grants audiences to ordinary people. He has a great love for drinking tea. Yussa believes that the means are always justified if the end is to preserve balance and peace.

10. #10Lavish Chateauselective

    Keys: Lavish Chateau, brothel, Nadine, Tyral, Carlos, Remedi

    <lavish_chateau>The Lavish Chateau is a high-end inn in the Opal Archways of Nicodranas. It is the home and place of business of the Ruby of the Sea, and the place where Jester grew up.

    The Lavish Chateau is a beautiful, three-story, thin but very tall, sky blue stone building. Windows of the building have a gold-leafed wooden frame with deep cerulean, crushed velvet curtains that opens up across stained glass windows that emanate slightly shifting kaleidoscope of color from the inside out. The front entrance is marked with steps that leads to double doors. There is a door in the back of the inn. There are two Zhelezo stationed on either side of the main entrance.

    Employees:

    • Marion Lavorre aka the Ruby of the Sea, a well-known and respected courtesan and singer
    • Bluud, Marion's personal bodyguard, a male minotaur
    • Nadine, Marion's lady's maid, a human woman in her forties with short dark hair
    • Tyral, front hand of the Chateau, a young human man
    • Carlos Remedi, the bartender, human man with a thick mustache and a comb-over

    On the first floor of Chateau is a foyer, a coatroom, two bars and a staircase that leads up to the second floor. The foyer is a very tall chamber, about fifteen feet high. It contains ten round tables covered with white tablecloths. Across the tables are silver platter that contains candles, fresh fruit, complimentary slivers of cheese and crackers. The second floor has various rooms for rent. The rooms are warm and the beds are ostentatious queen to king size. On the third floor there are Marion's chambers and Jester's bedroom. Marion Lavorre’s chamber is beautiful, with a large canopy bed, and silks in the windows that have elements of gems and beads knitted into the braided cords that during the daylight would add colored speckles throughout the chamber. There is a balcony that overlooks the entirety of the wharf below. </lavish_chateau>

11. #11Marion Lavorreselective

    Keys: Marion, Ruby, mother, momma

    Marion Lavorre, better known as the Ruby of the Sea, is Jester's mother and a prominent singer and a courtesan in Nicodranas. Marion is a tiefling with golden eyes, long curling horns, ruby red skin and dark red hair, from which her title is derived. She is graceful, alluring and charming. Whilst truly astonishing, her appeal comes from her wisdom and her intelligence, paired with her open heart and the comforting aura she exudes. She is perceptive and pays a lot of attention to detail, from both the shallower aspects of appearance and the more profound one of understanding human emotion and being able to read it. Marion is warm, jovial, motherly and fiercely loves Jester, cherishing her above everything. Marion has a fear of the outdoors known as agoraphobia and never leaves the Chateau. Jester is aware of Marion's condition. Marion calls Jester 'Little Sapphire'.

12. #12Bluudselective

    Keys: Bluud, babysitter, minotaur

    Bluud is a massive, dual-horned minotaur with thick brown fur, he wears his hair and a goatee in braids. He is Marion's personal bodyguard. He wears a studded leather garment around his waist. He has a septum piercing and wears golden bracelets on his wrists and biceps. Bluud speaks very little. Bluud works as the bodyguard to Marion at the Lavish Chateau since Jester was an infant. He is thoroughly trusted by Marion. He also performs errands for Marion, including acting as a babysitter to Jester as she grew up, visiting the market, and accompanying Jester on errands into the city. He is fun and good to Jester, allowing her to hang off his horns when she was a child.

13. #13Jester Lavorre’s bedroomselective

    Keys: Jester's bedroom

    Jester's bedroom in on the third floor of the Lavish Chateau and holds a very ornate little four-poster canopied bed covered in ruffles. There are trinkets everywhere, lots of windows, lots of books, and artwork covering the walls that gets better as it gets higher off the ground. On the underside of the canopy, Jester has painted a beautiful landscape of the Nicodranas shoreline and the Mother's Lighthouse, that is visible while lying in the bed.

14. #14The Menagerie Coastselective

    Keys: Menagerie Coast

    <menagerie_coast>The Menagerie Coast is the region of Wildemount situated west of the Cyrios Mountains and along the coast. The term is also used politically for the confederation of city-states on that southwestern coast of Wildemount and the Swavain Islands united under the Clovis Concord. The region thrives on open trade and cultural freedom.</menagerie_coast>

15. #15Wensforthselective

    Keys: Wensforth, goblin

    Wensforth is the Yussa's assistant of a very well-dressed goblin man wearing a double breasted vest and a pair of spectacles. He is clean and very well groomed. Wensforth get nervous by things that might upset or endanger his master, to whom he is very loyal.

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