What Ba Chim's spy tells you about Il Tasi'in Il Tasi'in, a thick-walled town of 3000, is the seat of power for one of the the most isolated of the borderland satrapies of the Scarlet Sultanate. Located on the east coast just after the shoreline turns south, it is a bare 60 miles from the Xobi, the cold rocky southern desert in the Weird. The town which is dominated by the two raised quartz-dome hills called the Teats of Manat was formerly called Manawat and was deeply associated with the worship of that chthonic goddess (who is said to have ruled over fate itself and “sapped the self-will and value of Men”). The ruling satrap is like other borderlands satraps both a highly-positioned courtier and necromancer, an important role in the maintenance of the undead-worked plantation system (more about Industrial Necromancy in a blog post). Ul-Namihirra is generally considered to be a deeply incompetent in both his expected roles but survives politically by his ability to shift...
Hmm, i do have a fondness for Golden-goat-horned statuettes....
ReplyDeleteYes, i will add that to my trophy room. Noted 1000 of 100,000,000,000 repaid. You are almost paid off.
Chris Kutalik note statuette will now go to trophy room of underground lair. (Whenever I build it).
500gp more repaid.
ReplyDeleteAs to the remaining balance, Lazzaro is consulting with Exautarch Komos about placing the rest of his recent payouts into a high-yield mutual fund to be cashed out in the DISTANT FUTURE (when all the humans are dead). He assures me that this can easily amount to much greater than 100,000,000,000 suns in merely a few centuries.
That is good news indeed.
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