Lyssky

Lyssky is a strange place in the world. they're close to the bay outlet, to active volcanic areas, lush farmland full of vineyards and much the world has to offer. They have a huge harbor and a population of 5,503 people. The population is also made up almost entirely of Ooskaran elves. Why would an Ooskaran reside in Eastern Murake?!? of all places? That is for you to find out :) Lyssky is the second to last town one would pass through on their way through Murake, and as such boasts several inns to stay in. They reside in the Gellion Territory, and are the only town in it. Lyssky might be one of the most peaceful places in Murake, but I'd still watch myself, just because the Ooskaran are the majority... and they are pacifists... doesn't mean they would always remain so, especially so far from home and in such a place as Murake. Lyssky is a rather small town, and in the middle of the Old Town square, there's a large statue of the Ooskaran deity, Felgaia. Oddly, this statue seems to have the appearance of a medusa--the hair looks like snakes, and the deity seems to be holding them.

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These are actually worms. This community is infested with the moshka worms, and one of the first Ooskaran to try the drug saw a fever dream of Felgaia holding snakes, but it was actually a dealer holding the worms...

The people here are generally friendly. Probably a bit too friendly.
They're known for their wine, which is so good, you'll never stop at one bottle. This is one of their main exports out of their harbor.
The ruling woman in charge of the town is Althaea Tilthana (F Elf),

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She wears a long tan cloak with a sworling design on its back. she wears a helm made of a taxidermied deer with antlers still attached. Her eyes are brownish-green and set into her reddish brown skin. Her teeth are small and perfectly white.
As far as etiquette, she's quite rude, and will insult and call you out on a whim. Definitely on drugs, and quite the partier. Likes pretty women, and will give them more of a chance then the men for sure.
Her parents were both born in Lyssky as well, and hunted big game in the southern reaches of the country, but she was usually sick as a child, so she was at home the entire time with a caretaker that would sometimes slip a little moshka dust in her drink to make her sleep. It slowly made her addicted to the substance.
As a child, she wanted to be a hero, and some of that goal still resides in her, but there's an influence surrounding her town that seems to keep her under a smog.

She is politically weak, and is generally puppetted by a council.

Tavern: Ahinar's Brewery

Owner: Ahinar Iranapha, Female Elf

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Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved, strange for someone who should be doing well... She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with bits and pieces of odds and ends. Her hair, while naturally golden, has a dirty sheen to it, probably could use a good washing. She wears an eyepatch.
Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Ahinar is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.
History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her mother. Ahinar was born on a far western desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Barkeep. They were far from the motherland of Malan, but her parents never seemed to mind much. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.
Motivation: Retire the richest woman in Murake; and obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is her passion
Voice: High pitched and raspy

Location: In an arcane quarter. The street outside is watched by a squad of the town guard and is crowded with shoppers. Description: The tavern is a wooden single storey building, with a small fenced yard and a koi pond. It contains a number of crates stacked along the back wall and a dance floor. Specials:

Octopus Ramen with Crowberry Tart (4 sp)
Fish Stew with Onion and a Glass of Vodka (5 sp)

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Hadarai Mellerelel, Male Elf
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Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a tan wide-brimmed hat and tan clothes. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. This hazel eyed northerner is not easily forgotten. Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all, even if they don't generally want it based on his appearance. History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He now owns his own business. Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Occupation: Fletcher Voice: Thin and wheezing
Irann Caphaxath, Female Elf
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Description: This western woman has a bulbous nose and wears a custom-built plate and leather armor that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. Her skin is unnaturally pale for an Oosakaran. Her black hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She tends to wears goggles to shield her eyes. Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She believes the village needs to unite against the moshka worm problem. History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in hopes that banded together they can take out the industry for moshka dust. Has a crush, not sure on whom.
Currently works as an interpreter between the Ooskaran of Lyssky and other races that pass through. Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's
Mella Eathalena, Female Elf
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Description: This woman wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. (Ew). She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized ruby on her right hand. Her hair is black and curly. Her amber eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything. Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. Ideally, she'd love to be against corruption and the like, but ^.
History: She is the product a well-kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Because her mother participated in the massacre of their homeland in Malan, brigands burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the east, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her father from journeying east to reunite her family. They took the cheapest boat they could find to Murake. She now mingles about in high society along the northern coastline, even if they really wish she would just bathe a little more. Motivation: Money/treasure; and she uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs.
Has no true job, but will hustle certain things, or sell her body while high.
Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong
Felosial Iathrana, Female Elf
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Description: Standing 4'11", this woman sports green and brown clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her green eyes dart from person to person. Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one, given that she can be in their presence long enough for them to finish the story. History: She was born in a small mountainous village near the Allant volcano. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. Some 10 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Felosial never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before. Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing her hectic life and new spice merchant responsibilities is difficult.
Being in the spice trade, Felosial also moves moshka dust when she needs to, but she really hates doing it.
Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant Voice: Sore throat, cough

Blacksmith: The Molten Duty

Owner: Enalis Teinithra, Male Elf

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Description: This man wears a green top hat and brown clothes. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an amethyst on his left hand. He keeps his hair short and dyed blond. He has violet eyes and a green hat with a grey feather. Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Blacksmith arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Occupation: Blacksmith Voice: German accent

Location: In a small alley. The street outside is full of market stalls. Description: The blacksmith is a log tower, with an orange shingled roof and moss-covered walls. Several battered shields hang on the walls. It contains a beautiful oak countertop and a mess of tools and supplies scattered around the shop. Specials:

Ammuntion, +3 (dmg 150) (375 gp)
Shield (10 gp)
Ammunition (371 gp)

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Quillathe Arnuanna, Female Elf
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Description: She stands about 4'10" and is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Scribe. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. She keeps her long brown hair kept up in a rat tail. She has amber eyes and a blue hat with a white feather.
Personality: She is happy with her job as a Scribe. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.
History: Born the oldest of a large religious family, she was no stranger to responsibility. In her 15th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She has achieved small success as a Scribe.
Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and she has turned away from the church that once ruled her life. Lyssky is a refuge sort of place for people like her, that no longer fit in the mentality of Malan, but the rest of the world isn't great either.
Has a crush. Works as a scribe in the blacksmith's backroom sometimes, and he helps her with braces for her disfigured leg.
Voice: Hard of hearing, loud
Dreali Siannodel, Male Elf
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Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep blue leather and dull white iron scale mail. His auburn hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a length of dark leather. His green eyes are passionate and lively. Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly. History: Dreali was born in the southern reaches of Murake, a violent place. At a young age he loved to build and create, using what magics he has to make anything and everything from the surrounding jungle and oceans. He wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He has since married many spouses, only to have them die. He claims to not be responsible.
Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.
Is a fellow scribe with Quillathe. Thank goodness he doesn't love her, right? Even if he's constantly flirting with her.
Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Jeweler: Crown Trinkets

Owner: Theirastra Iranapha, Female Elf

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Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She typically wears black cloth garments or leather armor. She sports a flattop hair cut. She has gray eyes and a black hat with a dyed purple feather.
Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She spends most of her nights at the local inn, getting drunk and spouting off.
History: Theirastra was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success in her business as a jeweler. Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Job, Family. Occupation: Jeweler Voice: Speaks in third person

Location: In a small alley. The street outside has a beggar harassing passers-by. Description: The jeweler is a plaster cabin, with a reinforced wooden door and finely-crafted furniture. A cat serves as a mascot and greets customers. It contains an empty birdcage and a large well-used grindstone.
Specials:

Exquisite Earrings (4 gp)
Exquisite Necklace (5 gp)
Exquisite Earrings (4 gp)

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Traki Erenaeth, Male Elf
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Description: This malnourished man dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He wears large thick round spectacles. Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty, definitely spends more nights than not drinking with Theirastra, and is surprisingly the voice of reason for her. He lacks moral complications, and may or may not have hit on said woman before. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.
History: Gifted from a young age, Traki studied abroad, in Malan. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the sea to a summer home near a ruined castle off the coast of Murake. He would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the island due to the painful memories there, and he was abandoned. Traki took refuge in the ruined castle and only found help when a random Fukibi messenger saw him there. He has that person to thank for saving his life. He took up a trade and eventually became a tanner, something he could at least be good at and make a little money doing.
Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he feels kind of lost in life, disconnected from his family.
Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Job, Nature. Occupation: Tanner Voice: French accent
Efferil Nailo, Male Elf
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Description: He is wearing the road-beaten gear of a warrior. He has relatively dark red skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles, especially for an elf. He wears his now silver hair up in a very large beehive style do, his neck and spine portion decorated with intricate braiding and beads. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim, but only when reading. Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered being a friend to any Fukibi people he comes across and travels near and far. History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Architect. He started his own business in the field soon after. Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Logical. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Architect Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

General Store: The Stone Petunia

Owner: Ridaro Nailo, Female Elf

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Description: She has a missing right leg. She tends to wear a long jacket to sort of hide it. Sometimes has a prosthetic. She wears her hair in dreadlocks and her eyes are a pleasant brown.
Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip, or she used to-before she lost the leg.
History: Ridaro was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 3 years.
Motivation: To be a priestess again; and balancing her hectic life and new merchant responsibilities is difficult Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Merchant Voice: Pirate accent

Location: In a temple ward. The street outside is filled with the smell of damp earth. A group of stray dogs are fighting over meat (or an arm). Description: The general store is a wooden cabin, with a small fenced yard and a small enclosed deck. It contains an old-looking telescope and jars of bulk candy on the counter. Specials:

Shovel (phb 150) (2 gp)
Mirror, Steel (phb 150) (5 gp)
Mason's Tools (phb 154) (10 gp)

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Ilanis Xiloscient, Female Elf
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Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a brown tunic with blue highlights, and long green pants that bunch up around her shoes. She is bald. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.
Personality: She doesn't talk much. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.
History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and pirate family. In her 18th year, her parents were killed by a goblins raid, leaving Ilanis alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it. Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by goblins, and she desires to right it; and she is wracked by social anxiety
Currently works for the general store as a laborer.
Voice: Australian accent
Erevan Suithrasa, Male Elf
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Description: He wears green painted combat armor at almost all times. He carries a battered quarterstaff and tarnished axe as well. His chestnut hair is singed and buzzed short. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned. Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.
History: Born in the south his family was never financially stable. Through the years after Erevan was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Erevan's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.
Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes.
Occupation: Barkeep Voice: Mousy voice
Rithka Ilphelkiir, Female Elf
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Description: An older woman who does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it, she is not a threatening figure. Her red hair is lengthy. Her gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air. Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty, especially those that would judge her on her appearance. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, and of this she is easily convinced.
History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Rithka grew up listening to her mother's many stories. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot, and occassionally modeling for artists.
Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and she has passion for adventuring and risk
In her spare moments, she spends time engraving.
Flaws: Depressed, Greedy. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Engraver
Voice: Indian accent

Local religious fanatic Ilanis Ethanasath, Female Elf

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Ilanis has been horribly disfigured from birth. Her parents tried to kill her in a housefire, but they were unsuccessful, Ilanis coming out alive, but covered in burns and her head filled with trauma. She dresses in a clean white cloak covering plain cotton clothing. Her black hair she keeps tightly cut or braided to her skin, lest it be caught or burned. It doesn't grow as it should, in some places, and is discolored in others. Her face is marred with sharp features and looks grimacing at all times. She wears thick glasses in brown frames.
Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her, and she holds that close to her heart ever since the day her parents tried to kill her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day, even if her body doesn't allow for it. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end, which makes sense because she couldn't win a fight if she tried, even if she desperately wanted to. She is a dedicated Blacksmith but believes her peers are too gung-ho. Spends her time working for Enalis, who doesn't judge her.
Has been married, but recently found out her long time partner was cheating on her the entire time, and only married her for her money.
She's currently visiting the general store to purchase bandages. Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Housing

Small Cottage Owner: Ahinar Fasharash, Female Elf

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Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Elves. Her skin is light but she possesses many tan ritualistic tattoos. She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright white and tan, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Her chestnut hair, when down, is lengthy. Her eyes are likewise green. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned. Is a roofer with lots of money. Voice: pre-pubescent

The house is a stucco simple building, with a white tile roof and finely-crafted furniture. It contains a single bachelor-style room with a bed and chest, along with a dresser on the far wall. In one corner is small firepit with simple cooking pot. Cured meats are hung in bundles from the rafters.