Friday, August 17, 2012

Rumors in the World Between II



Harrowfaust
If you’ve got a madman or lunatic in the family, you could do worse than sending them to theasylum at Arkhamdale.”
† Grish Spango, hawker of penny dreadfuls

The Brotherhood of the Yew has the appearance of being a society for folkloric and historicalscholarship, but the organization has an inner circle actively devoted to tracking and destroyingthe walking dead. Members of that inner circle recognize each other by the silvered half-moonpin they always wear on their lapels.”

† Morgan Castia, alchemist of Vineyard Hills

The Forsaken Keep of the Blighted Urn is the seat of the Knights of the Lost Legion. Cursed byan eternity of lifeless indignity, the Knights can be temporarily forced into service by powerful,occult magic. However, the spells that bind their service can only be cast by the black-hairedseventh daughter of a seventh daughter. Anyone else who attempts to ensnare them by sorcerywill be dragged into the Keep and forcibly conscripted into the Lost Legion.”

† Gilliwack Jhemp, plague doctor

The Iron PrincipalitiesSome say that the Guild of the Red Hand is just a fairytale told to scare children, but my cousinVernard was into some bad business. One morn his wife woke-up and found him choked to deathin their marriage bed. A palm print was stamped on the wall in gore-colored ink. You can’t tellme that wasn’t the work of the assassin’s guild.” 

† Mortimer Guld, forger and fence for goods of uncertain legality

As bad as things are in Caligari, at least we’ve still got a semblance of law and order. You can’tsay that about the ramshackle border towns of the Principalities. Not much grows out there in the sandy soil, but there is gold and silver laced through the land. Those metals give rise to greed and greed gives rise to violence—the mining towns of the South are a good place to get yourself killed, if you’re so inclined.” 

† Jennings Slake, retired duelist

In the days of King Glavius, the great island city of Karamodia was the center of the knownworld. But the King did anger the spiteful elemental spirits with his [parchment torn] and thegreat serpent Amaloch did pull Shining Karamodia to the bottom of the Sorrowsea.”

The Chronicles of Sewalus Toole, volume three

4 comments:

  1. I don't know if you want to take advice on pyschiatric treatment from a penny dreadful salesman, but that's just me.

    Interesting rumors, as always.

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    1. I totally would take that advice.

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  2. I'm trying to figure out why the turtle has a stand for an upside-down skull, and as a secondary question, connecting that picture to the idea of rumors...

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