<strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 24pt;">Setting</span></span></strong><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/arnHoKX.jpg)  </div><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>Continent</strong>: Avistan<br/><strong>Nation</strong>: former Cheliax<br/><strong>City</strong>: Golgotha<br/><strong>Government</strong>: Imperial territorial, Mayoral feudal<br/><strong>Ruler</strong>: presumed to be Lord Asmodeus Himself.  Some think it's a man, or woman, claiming to have channeled the infernal lord.  Others are devoutly certain.<br/><strong>Mayor</strong>: Krell Loghtus<br/><strong>Law</strong>: ... loosely enforced.  The "Empire" has outreached its ability to enforce much.<br/><strong>Alignment</strong>: NE<br/><br/><strong>The Year:</strong> Unknown.<br/><br/><strong>Brief history</strong>: Golgotha was a bastion of strength and commerce, thriving on plantations, craftsmanship, and trade under the ironclad control of the Chelaxian throne until the wars severed some of the crucial ties to the throne.  It remained loyal... mostly... throughout the Troubles, but the War of Damnation was a breaking point.  They held out surprisingly well, despite the corruptible, massive number of rebellious slaves that turned to demonic pacts and necromantic alliances in an attempt to overthrow the crown, finding betrayal and pottage their reward as they became cannon-fodder in the ensuing decades of cataclysmic battles that turned the city from totalitarian paradise to dystopian hellscape.  The scales tipped after a cataclysmic battle in which-- if the legends can be believed-- a Mythical Red Dragon known only as Blind Hate appeared and laid waste to the city for a series of days and nights known as the Week of Sorrow and Fire.  The city, left in ruins, fell easily to the dead, and those left fought a guerrilla campaign until the war gradually died out.  There were few heroes, and those are dead... three exceptions remain, and they never leave the Manor.  Descendants purportedly run the city, but their muddied blood is often cited and never proven.<br/><br/><strong>Key districts:<br/></strong>       ·         White Plains (former commons) - hard to build on thick marble, so it became a place for temporary structures that don't get permanent foundations.  Merchants, trade, soldiers found here sometimes.<br/>       ·         Spinning Devil - tenements started in the remnants of the Lord's district, built into the gutted buildings and yards.  Called the spinning devil because it formed in clusters and sprawled.<br/>       ·         Brambles (Garden District) - primarily ruins, was hit particularly hard, as if targeted in particular.  Few real structures remain, many sprawling gardens-turned-wild and minor structures contained therein.<br/>       ·         Sorrowforge - Hardened old shipyard.  Connected to commons by half-flooded tunnel, where boats transfer cargo.  They rule the harbor and ship in slaves, basically tolerated pirates.  Ruthless, selfish, and wealthy.<br/>       ·         The Flock - Countryside where old middle/lower class lived, all was burned.  Not uncommon to find relics in soil, more profitable than food but can't eat it.  Lots of bones too.<br/>       ·         Devil's Bastion - Apparently the mayor lives here.  I certainly didn't vote for him.  There are soldiers there, and sometimes someone comes out and says something will be or won't be done.  Typical.<br/>       ·         Black Boneyard - Hunks of fused metal and stone litter the remnants of the scorched citadels of the wealthiest district of Old Golgotha, with entire neighborhoods ready to collapse into the swamps that have overtaken them.  <br/>              Once filled with canals and mansions, it is now a stinking cesspool of colossal ruins, unrefreshed by the tide.</span>