Benevolent Founder, Spirit, Marloff, Genius Loki
Whispers of the Talon
"Ship of Fools"
"Death, she comes for us all. Never wince away.
Make your strength. Be that strength, and wield it tenderly."
Marloff's Growlery Apprentice, Jay Sparrow
On the edge of town, surrounded by a wrought-iron fence supported by stone columns, lies the town cemetery, where Jastrey's undertaker sees to the interment of its dead. An arched gate topped with a pair of weeping serathine statues serves as the only entrance or exit. A plaque next to the gate warns succinctly, "No visitors after sundown. No trespassing in the catacombs. No disturbing the graves. Violators will be killed on sight."
War canoe style ship sporting large outriggers used by Faro'oq to travel trade routes between Jastrey and Glesmyr. Outfitted to cut the ice of the frozen north and stay insulated from the biting cold. The ship is rarely in port at Jastrey during the winter mestruns of the year preferring to make port in Glesmyr, but travels back and forth during the summer mestruns when the ice blocking the trade routes is minimal. But will make the journey when the Captain or Quarter Master have need to be in Jastrey.
The Brotherhood Tower in Jastrey has a long and storied history to its name. After losing its vault and foundation on the Second's Sixth of Arathost, and beset by fiends and ultimately sealed from entry on the Second's Seventh of Arathost, 5,732 NB, it was collapsed by Malkonius Stoneshield and Ikara on the First's Eighth of Suribatre, 5,733 NB in an attempt to stop the Theocracy incursion during Ressik's invasion of the shard. Shattered in to rubble and dust, it was time to create a new home for the Docents, and a new Library for Jastrey.
Avaren's Warren stands within the temple district, the Prime imbued white stone shining brightly. It stands, a beacon to all seeking refuge, healing or solace. Within it's gleaming walls are the Chapel, Surgery, Orphanage, Hospice, spare rooms for guests or acolytes, and the First's chambers. Beneath the solid wooden floors is a subbasement, divided into several chambers, ready to house as many as possible should the need arise.
Sitting across from the Pillar of Virtue, once a well maintained stone building it is now little more than an abandoned ruin. A badly painted sign once pronounced the building to be the "Brokn Noz", in Cirth; but now it bears the Vostonjin "兵屋". A smaller sign underneath previously proclaimed the property as "Accorded Neutral Territory" on a handsome set of gray boards; but now bears the Vostonjin "傭兵" and "僧兵".
Set at the edge of Jastrey is a small, ivy-covered stone cottage nestled in among the trees, colorful wildflowers growing along the property's edge. A cobblestone pathway, lined with colorful flowers and plants, leads from the dusty Jastrian road to the front door, and you can see several herbal, flower and vegetable plots to the side, leading behind the lovely structure.
A mighty redwood tree grows high in the forest. Among it's twisting gnarled roots a stable. There's a fairly large building nestled neatly in it's branches; not carved or cut out, but intertwined as though it grew from the tree itself. Decorations of wolves, moons, and storm clouds are a major theme, with the symbol of the Gor bloodline, and the Broken Wing tribe on each window. Smoke billows from the smithy's chimney at the bottom of the tree, and tanning racks litter the rear yard. The left side borders a flowing river, and the right side buzzes with several bee hives.
A tower on the edge of the forest outside of town made in an elven style that seems to at least partially be grown from the trees themselves. The Rookery is a temple devoted to the immortal Kelvaros. Ravens, crows, rooks, magpies, and other corvids are raised within its halls and trained as messengers and couriers. It is the home to only two of Kelvaros's followers: the head of the Vindicators, and the head of the Conservators.
Head Vindicator: TBD
Head Conservator: Silaine Norling
