The Drow War Book Two. The Dying Of - RoseRed

traders to discuss business, are now a place where
delegates from the civilised nations can meet and
decide where they stand with one another. The
Halls of Concord are a microcosm in which feuding
nations are represented by arguing ambassadors,
while friendly nations settle major trade treaties over
flagons of dwarven beer.
• Xoth Sarandi’s wealth has come from the sea-portals,
which cannot be used without the portal keys, special
magical items that can only be obtained from the
House of Trade.
Rumours: The information below can be gleaned with a
Gather Information check. The check result determines
the quality of information. A high check result also
gives all the information that would have been gained
from lower results.
• 10–14: If you are anything other than an elf, then
the best person to talk to if you need unofficial help
is Maskin Tythe. He can be found at the Brazen
Trumpet Inn on Barter Street. Maskin can find you
pretty much anything you might need, for the right
price. If he does not have it, he knows a man who
does. No humans are allowed to set foot on the
Bridge of Pure Blood. If you try it, they will shoot
you.
• 15–20: There is a new representative for Jehannum
in the Halls of Concord. The old representative,
Karil Sturvin, has been recalled back to Jehannum.
Several people watched him leave; he was shouting
insults at the elves and humans alike as he stormed
down to the docks and on to a waiting ship. The new
representative is a strange, sardonic bald man called
Brexel who claims to speak for the ‘lawful occupants
of Jehannum’, presumably these drow that have come
and taken the place over seemingly overnight.
• 21–25: There is great confusion in the Halls of
Concord concerning the invasion of Jehannum.
The delegates have reported back to their
sovereigns, who are now deciding whether or not
to recognise the drow as the rightful occupants
of the country. A meeting has been scheduled
for noon tomorrow, at which the nations will
announce their positions on the drow occupation.
When Brexel arrived in the city he was in the
company of four silent companions dressed like
theatrical performers or acrobats.
The High Council is in a state of denial about the
massacres of drow non-combatants in Jehannum
after the last Drow War. Although its members paid
the humans of Jehannum to break their treaty with
the drow, the official line is that no such action ever
took place and that the council remained neutral
throughout.
Brexel has been seen speaking with the ambassador
for Kandang, a strange fellow who wears a white
dragon mask and has vapour surrounding his body.
• 26–30: A crate large enough to conceal an ogre was
loaded onto one of the ships in the ambassadorial
dock last night. The dockhand who saw it happen
believes it was the personal galleon of the Kandang
ambassador. The people who loaded the crate were
definitely not regular dockworkers. They were
dressed more like circus performers.
• 30+: Karil Sturvin never left Xoth Sarandi. Brexel
and his companions, the Shadow Troupe, murdered
the former Jehannum ambassador. They dumped his
body somewhere in the city where it would never be
found. Brexel and Fangthane Barbiculus have made
a private deal involving future drow support for an
invasion of Valjinn.
A check result of five or less, or the whim of the Games
Master, results in the following misinformation:
• The High Council of Xoth Sarandi are sponsors of
a slave trade. They use the ambassadorial docks
to exchange cargoes of captured human slaves for
magic items. Nobody ever finds out, because the
ambassadorial dock is private and closely guarded.
The slaves end up back in Shallenoi, being forced to
serve, just as they used to back when the elves had
the whole world in their grasp.
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