Brave new world - People and Places
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Socotra
Obtain polar coordinates from the library on Svalbard Island- island past great sea. Growing there are 'Dragon' trees, who's sap is 'Dragons Blood'.
Gothenburg
Large city with enormous library. Thriving fish trade. The most significant import is grain and alcohol. priest of different religious here. A fantastic library. about 8K people
- Redshield – a contact of the Bishop. He is a tailor and spy with extensive contacts.
- Long Annie – a witch who lives on the outskirts of Gottenburg. She is 6.5 and her joints are big. human and in her 40s
- Alchemist – lives under a bridge in Gottenburg. Can make potions of youth. We hired him a housekeeper for a year.
Trondheim
small town a few days sailing north of Gothenburg. A friendly bishop looks after the town and occasionally hunts vampires.
Bear Island
small windswept island a week out of Gothenburg. Was the headquarters of the Ogres
Svalbard Island
a difficult to find island 1-2 weeks out of Gothenburg.
- Library – strange trapezoidal shape. Wooden frame and dark glass. Significantly larger on the inside. The lower level leads to the abyss, the top level to the astral. It contains an enormous number of scrolls written in a multitude of languages. With enough research, much knowledge can be located here. Rooms are magically lit upon entrance.
Eternal City
There are a number of quarters in the city
- Ironchurch
- Throne of the Empress
Has a nexus to Seagate
Eisenkirche
a large city in the County Palatine
- Peter - contact who arranged food deliveries for Unterkiel.
- Centrum Orbis - a metropolis many leagues south of Isenkirk
Has a nexus to Eternal City
Three villages in the bay near the city
- Unterkiel - about 1800 people
- Eichelhorn - about 1200 people. Attacked by the Ogres. Short of food for winter.
third village???
Crescenti family / house
an organisation run by the eye of discord that operates as an inter-planar trade organisation. They certainly seem to trade in quite high-end goods, but they also seem to have a lot of political interests and the like. Plainly its the eye of discords spy network / income / power and the like. Behind the Ogre attacks.
Osterson
small village to the east of Trondheim, across the mountain range. Preyed upon by vampires.
To the far east
Crater
- Black dragon - sits on angular "coins" that are from Carcosa
- 20 frost giants
- 6 ogre magi
- Yellow writing – a Propitiation to "The King in Yellow" (Hastor). Stops the use of his name, in the area from having a negative effect on his disposition towards the utterer.
- Shadow of the black sun
- Lair contains two dias, both three dimensional summoning circles – one to Carcosa and the other to ???
- Building a gigantic cross plane summoning portal, it will take a year or more.
Crater Village
small village, no others with 25 miles. Grows pigs, small cow like creatures. Dried apples. The land is not suitable for wheat.
