<strong>Kafka: Zaine, Bellona</strong><br/><br/>The guard looked genuinely sorry that he had to turn the travelers away, but orders were orders. "I'm sorry, but the Captain was very clear that nothing passes the gates without his explicit orders after sundown," he told them. "But if you head down the road for an hour, you should reach the village and find some beds there."<br/><br/><hr/><br/><strong>Urban World: Alaxos</strong><br/><br/>According to the scholar's apprentice's knowledge, most of the world was controlled by the empire which was headed by the Sultan, while the remaining lands were split among small vassal kingdoms. The empire was in turn divided into provinces each of which was administered by a Vizier. The Sultan was trying to centralize command of the world's adventurers under his control through the Imperial Heroes' Guild which he controlled. The more traditional Adventurers' Guild which answered only to its members had been declared illegal and driven underground, quite literally into the sewers, and nowadays they were mostly a disgruntled bunch long removed from their glory days of old, sulking and waiting for an end coming not with a bang but with a whimper.