City Folk

Pubs and Taverns

  • Redman, the owner of the Broken Sword tavern, has six fingers on left hand. The extra finger is non-human and scaly. #Gossip
    • No one really knows but the Broken Sword of the Broken Sword Tavern refers to a magical sword owned by six-fingered Redman. #Gossip
      • The Broken Sword was given to Redman by elves but was broken after slaying an elemental. Only Dark Steel can reforge it back. #Uncommon
    • Zavinna, Redman's barmaid. No one knows where she comes from and those who have entered her bed will never be able to tell. #Uncommon
  • The Full Moon Tavern, off Longside, is run by Alomos DeLupe. Many say he is a werewolf but never to his face. #Gossip
    • Alomos DeLupe is really Sanka Mehumat, a Rakshasas from beyond the Steppes with shape changing powers. The werewolf story scares and misdirect his foes. #Secret
  • Foul Ron, an old beggar who frequents adventure's taverns. The truly observant will see something golden around his neck. #Uncommon
  • Hiendson, once a leading guild member but now a drunk telling stories of evil & chaos at the highest level. #Gossip
  • In the King's Teeth tavern, next to trader Eld Florent's place, everyone stands. No furniture can survive its rough patrons. #Gossip
  • The Dark Room, an underground inn run by a patrons who prefer the dark. Its entrance is in a cave. #Gossip
    • Stelez Darkfingers, owner of the Dark Room owns the slaving ring and deals with the Cloak to sells slaves to the Undercity. #Gossip
    • In the Dark Room, patrons are entertained by a undead comedian that uses a living victim as a ventriloquist doll. #Gossip
    • The Dark Room, Undercity traders bring in magical beast and aberrations to partake in an underground arena. #Gossip
  • The acrid odor eminating from the thatched roof of The Unrepentant Inn revealed the presence of a colony of nesting striga. #Gossip
  • The Dragon's Rest is an inn, an exclusive clubhouse and adventurer's guild. #Common
    • The owner is part of the Silver Balance Union. #Gossip

The Outcasts, The Mad and the Ignored

  • Undertaker Griggor takes care of the graveyard and the undead sleeping in them. He is the leader of a dark cult. #Uncommon
  • Talan the gravedigger drives a stake through the heart of each corpse he buries. #Uncommon
  • Scorchia, healer and herbalist is just a regular old hag. Rumors spreads around town that she eats children and wears the skins. #Gossip
  • Halen, an idiot child, spouts rubbish but occasionally makes high accurate predictions. #Uncommon
  • Hepus, the half-crazed fisherman, swears he just saw a whale being carried out of the water by a flock of orange birds. #Gossip
  • There's a creepy beggar that can walk on walls and that whispers to his victims, 'Do you have coins to make means join?' #Gossip
  • Candle maker Tobrias Kell claims that he can see ghosts and spirits when he closes one of his eyes. #Gossip
  • The leader of the Reaching Palm is rumored to be a diviner that can see the future from his palm. #Secret
  • It looks like a shack, but the house of Eidy Trash is trapped and labyrinthine. He sits in the cellar, sharpening his blades. #Uncommon
  • Isrisu is obsessed with elves and follows them around. She has strange visions bout them. #Uncommon
  • Keala, a street urchin girl claims that she found a hole that would take her to a 'faerie realm' in one of the wells. #Uncommon

Entertainment

  • Brody the Bard's Stage on Wheels has a constant lurch as it travels the streets. The gaudy purple orange has dulled a bit. #Common
  • Niway's Troupe, a troupe of gnomes specializing in special effects using illusions, ghost sounds and prestidigitation. #Gossip
  • Celed, a male minstrel that carries a harp and is famed for being to sing melodies in high pitch voices as if he was a woman. #Gossip
    • 'Vocal experts' claim that it is the harp that is singing and Celed is merely mouthing his lyrics. #Uncommon
  • Alek is a bard who tells tales of great adventures in his past, a lost kingdom, and great treasures. Too bad no one believes him. #Uncommon

Shops and Traders

  • Gardener Shembud owns a greenhouse that sells beautiful flowers from the warm lands and breeds a hive of poisonous butterflies. #Uncommon
  • MacGregor the shop owner. Why does he always have exactly what you need even if you don't know it at first? #Gossip
  • The house & shop of trader Eld Florent is always a muddy, smoky, busy mess. By crude log walls lounge hopeful caravan guards. #Gossip
  • Old Jertzy's Bakery sits on the corner of the market square. The warmth from its huge oven can be felt in the street. #Gossip
  • Sophia, a local shopkeeper, knows everyone in town. Wondering where to find lute strings or henchmen or deadly poison, ask. #Gossip
  • An odd shop sits in between Wick's Alley and Manners Street. The owner sells various glass lenses to be worn and magnifying. #Gossip
  • Olaf, blacksmith on Ferry Lane, never buys coal but the forge is always hot. Marks on his anvil might be occult symbols. #Gossip
  • There is a toy shop near Market Place in Twill. The toys are said to whisper to children in their dreams. #Gossip
  • A skeleton of a horse rest in the stable of Stablemaster Dorn who never removes it, claiming that its owner will return for it 2
  • The Twill Night Market is the place to buy and sell magical items without having to pay a fee to the Wizards Guild. #Uncommmon
  • Norman, a merchant that sells mundane items which he claim are magically enhanced. Most are fakes but some are really wondrous. #Gossip

Priests and Mages

  • The Temple of Lilithia, goddess of compassion, always smells of jasmines and other flowers as though in a perpetual spring. #Common
    • Priestess Soval of the Lilithia Chruch leads social activities to help the poor and sick and raise funds by selling flowers. #Gossip
    • The divine magic cast by the clerics of the Temple of Lilithia has been described by some wizards as 'frighteningly powerful'. #Gossip
  • Every 13 days a group of 6 cloaked arcanists meet at the outskirts of Twill. They use sign language and never talk aloud. #Secret
    • The sign language used by some arcanists in Twill, know as the 'silent tongue', evolved from the gestures used in spell casting. #Secret
  • Huggrad, a wizard guild outcast was a friendly and well-loved wizard by the townspeople until he disappeared one day. #Gossip
  • Norman the Merchant is always wary. The Wizards Guild is after him for selling magic items without their permission. #Gossip

Myths and Mysterys

  • Many whispers surround on the content of the abandoned warehouse of Thorek, dwarf gem merchant but none dares venture in. #Gossip
  • Sendrick Gilas, a man that appears at night around the market square claims that he doesn't believe in ghosts, while floating 6” above the ground. #Gossip
  • You may see a man in black robes and with a yellow mask in Barker Street. If you talk with him you go insane. #Gossip
  • The deepest dungeons of Castle Twill are said to be imprisoning an ancient lich. #Gossip
  • 60 years ago, the town became a suspected hotbed of the Dragon Cult. Today, few vestiges remain. #Gossip
    • Now the cult of Orcus seeks to uncover the mysterious magic that the dragon cultist wielded. #Uncommon
    • There's legends of a sealed crypt belonging to ancient dragon cultist that causes the disturbances in the graveyard. #Gossip
    • A handful of Dragon Cult members survive in the Twill. They called themselves the Brotherhood of the Undying Flame. #Uncommon
  • Scholars believe that a serial murder that happened 8 years ago in Twill averted a terrible magical catastrophe from happening. #Uncommmon
  • At each nightfall, a man in green clothes casts magical light on three different parts of the city. He claims he's afraid of dark. #Uncommmon
  • That hollow tapping you hear near the sewer grates when peaceful folk are asleep? They're the messages of the Wererat cabal.

Butchers And Skinners

  • Butchers and fishmongers are found in Deaddog street. Some of the meat being sold may have given the street its name. #Common
  • Both Summerfield and Deaddog are located along the Dyke and dispose their rubbish there. #Common
  • Summerfield and Deaddog street are separated by an improvised wooden archway. There's some sort of rivalry between the streets. #Gossip
  • The local rivalry between the Butchers of Deaddog St and the Tanners of Summerfield stretches back 100s of years. #Uncommon
  • The tannery workers usually drink in the Skinners Arms Tavern at the north end of Summerfield. #Gossip
  • The butchers and other locals drink in the Deaddog Inn, at the south end of the Street. It is near the Skinner's Arms. #Gossip
  • Twice a year, the Skinners and the Butchers face off for a game of Street Bull. A rough ( violent) game using a bull's head. #Common
  • In Deaddog Street, there's rumors of a butcher that is willing to cut up any type of flesh. He owns a huge black dog that changes shape at night time. #Uncommon
    • The black dog is not simply an ordinary dog during the night. #Uncommon

The Rest

  • Saradok, a capable wizard and adviser to the Silver Balance Union has plans to turn liberate the city from the Empire. He thinks the Empire is weak and cannot send an army as far north as Twill. #Secret
  • Some claim there are only 5 elves living in Twill. #Common
  • Lady Veniskise, wife of a rich man, speaks to a skull every night while her husband is away on business trips. #Gossip
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