Gambling - Illegal
Most of the underground gambling that occurs in Eisen tends to be relatively tame; occasional back alley games of dice or ‘friendly’ games of billiards or poker in local taverns and inns. While not associated with any of the guilds, most of those “small change” games don’t attract enough attention to really be worth the effort to send the Rooks to break them up.
On the other end of that spectrum, however, are the real underworld gambling circuits.
Exclusively run by the Syndicate, and only for those who are in the know, savvy Eisenfolk can find everything from exotic creature arenas to full blown undercover casinos to, perhaps the most famous of all, the Pits.
The Pits are a series of locations throughout Novandria that shift around on an arcane and unusual schedule where underground boxing and pit fighting occurs. The expectations set of the Pits is such that everyone minds their manners - unplanned brawls and poor losers find themselves both ejected quickly and suddenly not fed the location information anymore.
Furthermore, there is an expectation in the Pit fighting circuit that attendees do not talk about other attendees - there are more than a few ‘noble born’ who patronize the Pits and who would be exceptionally put out to find their name and family in the paper or on the Rook’s warrant list. Loose lips are just as likely to get someone expelled from the Pit circuit as fast as making trouble.
Perhaps obviously, the guild associated with the pit fighting circuit is the Syndicate and they aggressively pursue anyone trying to horn in on their market.
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