Month: October 2025
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The Open Verge
A circular, open-air market built around Glassfire Works, a massive three story shop dedicated to all things clockwork and artifice. The stalls are lively, brightly colored and full of goods from across the world. Silk cloths hang above and across the stalls for shade, casting the winding paths in a kaleidoscope of colors. The Open…
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Glintrow
A widely destroyed district, once home to some of the poorer folks in Aideum. Now it is a graveyard of the burnt bones of structures intermingled with the temporary structures of the people who still live and work there. The only intact buildings are a pair of factories. The Glintrow orphanage is located here, operating…
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Rumcutter Walk
The premier entertainment district in Waterfowl, consisting of several large taverns situated around an open air park. Located right alongside the Inner Harbor, Rumcutter Walk caters mainly to sailors and merchants with coins to burn, but is known in Waterfowl as the place to go for a rowdy time. The owners of the businesses here…
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Ashgrove District
An established and wealthy neighborhood in the Waterfowl Borough, just north of Brimlock Row and Lowhaven. The buildings here are made of stone and brick, the yards large enough for gardens, and the central market bursting with fresh fruits and goods from across the world. Many of the older families of Waterfowl call this place…
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Lowhaven
Once an up-and-coming neighborhood in the Waterfowl Borough, now mostly devastated by the fires. Reconstruction here has been slow because of the lack of established wealth, however a large tent city has sprung up around and through the destruction. The vast majority of people here have lost everything. Notable Places Notable People
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Borough: Inner Aideum
Districts Dicana’s Path
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Dicana’s Path
Dicana’s Path is a temple district located in Inner Aideum comprised of various cults of Selk and their temples and shrines. It consists of a single large, complex building with attachments and extensions at irregular intervals. Inside the building, a series of narrow, interlocking pathways and tunnels open into larger spaces that house individually built,…
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Selk
Selk (sɛlk) Archetype: The Trickster Domains: Trickery, Knowledge, Death Titles: The Survivor, Architect of Knots Depiction: He appears as either a weathered old man in patchwork clothing with an ironic smile and six eyes, or as a large spider. Holy Symbol: Blackened coinTemples: Shrines in back rooms of shady establishments, a carving above a particularly dark passagewayFollowers:…
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Church of Our Lady of Knots
The endless rumbling sound of threadworn spinning wheels joins with a softly hummed chorus. A dim candlelit chapel that could pass as a bazaar’s shop if exposed to the sun. Tapestries of endless hues drape from rafter to rafter, crisscrossed with the silken threads of coffin-spider webs. Pilgrims file into the chamber in silent procession, …
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Borough: Waterfowl
Districts: Ashgrove DistrictBreakwater CrownBrimlock RowGlasswaterGlintrowHalbervineHullForgeInkspill DistrictInner HarborLanternquayLowhavenThe NettlesThe Open VergeRumcutter WalkWeaver’s End