WELCOME TO YOUR NEW FACTION!

[abraxasmods]

TIME TO EXPLORE

Welcome to three new cities! Now that your characters have access to new places, we wanted to give you all the information you need to start shaping the world of Abraxas. Each of these pages contains a basic outline of each city's setting and important people. Some of these people will be available for NPC interaction on the IC posts for each city.

Please feel free to learn about
Solvunn / The Free Cities / Nott

YOUR NEW FACTION

We know you may have questions about what a new faction means for your characters. Don't worry — we have written a guide to help you explore your options.

We would again like to stress that this world is yours to mold! We encourage you to do things like name the shops and create the NPCs that work in them! Dream up the things held in the museums. Decide what styles of clothing and food can be found. Anything you can think of! All we ask is that you keep the general setting and attitude of each locale intact. If you find yourself truly stumped as to whether something is allowed, please ask us.

NPC INTERACTION

For each new city post, we are offering NPC interactions! The available options are

◎Solvunn
✒︎Rowan March

◎The Free Cities
✒︎Prime Minister Marlo Reiner

◎Nott
✒︎Lord of Representatives Lyle Vela

◎Castle Thorne
✒︎Jolene Sybell

At Castle Thorne, Jolene Sybell will be conducting the interrogations (with assistance from some angry guards). All characters will be interrogated, but the actual thread is optional. If your character wouldn't have much to say and isn't willing to flip on the others, they will be released without much hassle.

Due to mod availability, please take into consideration how your character would receive being interrogated before requesting an NPC thread. Handwaving is perfectly acceptable!

We will be accepting NPC threads until Friday, September 3rd at 11:59PM EST. If you have tagged the NPC thread by that time, you will receive a response! And please, remember that your mods are regular humans with full-time jobs, so while we will do everything in our power to tag expeditiously, your patience is appreciated.

THE HORIZON

And just as a note, please remember that characters cannot yet travel between cities, but they are welcome to visit each other in the Horizon! Characters who have not yet been there can be introduced to it via physical touch from a character who has been there and can take them there, and all first timers in the Horizon experience memory loss.

Comments

[abraxasmods]

Your friend is in luck! Plenty of grocers and food stalls will buy fresh game meat, and bones and other bits can usually be sold to potion and elixir makers even in the Free Cities. Along with more familiar fauna like wild dogs, small deer, mountain lions, rabbits and the like there are two local creatures easily found along the edges of the desert outside of Cadens that can cause trouble and need to be dealt with:

Chaigon - Large mammalian creatures that could be mistaken for armadillo the size of cows, aside from the prominent spikes that cover their body. Territorial and become highly aggressive if approached in the wild. Or if they think they're being approached.

Outrice - a large flightless predatorial bird with dull red and brown feathers, vaguely resembling an ostrich but with red scales rather than skin on its featherless head and long legs. Its neck is thicker and feathered and its beak and talons are wickedly sharp and curved to tear easily through flesh and bone. It will go after humans.

(More local fauna for all areas to come soon in a proper bestiary.)

[gynvael]

This is perfect, thank you for the details!

One more thing, since it sounds like the Free Cities is pretty vast to travel -- how long would a round trip into the surrounding desert and back be (provided he obtains a horse and assuming a pretty experienced rider)? Is it a case of a 3-5 day trip, a moderate ~1 week, or something like 3-4 weeks? Basically, would this be feasible as a regular source of income or just a once-in-awhile thing that needs to be planned out?

Also from the pictures, it seems like the Cadens desert is similar in climate/terrain to, say, the deserts of Nevada (some plant life and streams exist, etc.); I just wanted to make sure that's a correct interpretation!

[abraxasmods]

That's a very good question! Unfortunately, characters aren't going to be able to traverse the entire desert. After a few day's worth of travel into the desert itself, one will encounter military camps and barricades and will be told to turn back by soldiers. If asked why, the soldiers will respond that the Free City's military is conducting training exercises.

But there are plenty of beasties in the accessible area of the desert making it a viable source of income, as well as plenty of game in the foothills and low mountainous areas south of Cadens. And yes, the accessible desert terrain is similar to that.

[gynvael]

Gotcha, this works great. Thank you again mods!