Connected to Hex 19.31
Jahur’s notorious penal colony consists of fingers of stone rising from The Sea of Typhoons, bone white with the guano of sea birds. Many criminals convicted by the courts of Iano or the Viceroys serve long sentences on these bleak, rugged isles regardless of the severity of their crimes. Convicts - pickpockets, murderers, vandals and rapists - hike up and down the slopes in gangs led by Janissary guards, collecting buckets of guano. This harvest is essential for Jahur’s alchemists, who need it to produce black powder and fertilizer.
There is little room for human life on the Lonely Crags, so the Janissaries have implemented a grim parole system. Whenever a new convict arrives into a prison block, the block is forced to vote on which of their fellow inmates becomes “paroled” to make space. The convict with the most votes is drowned, cut into pieces and fed to the sea birds to ensure that they continue to roost on the Lonely Crags.
A long-term convict named Iram, a potter sentenced for his years of liaisons with the Viceroys’ concubines, has so much influence over the paroling process that he is known as King of the Rocks. Inmates eager to win his favor will do almost anything for him, including smuggling, theft and murder. Those who anger the King of the Rocks live in terror, knowing that their days are numbered.
Connections
- -The octoids (23.32) have agents and contacts on the Lonely Crags.
- -Some scholars believe these fingers of stone originated in Ninbolm (05.24), and were placed here by the sorcerers of Bergolast to mark their maritime borders.
Hooks
- Who has escaped the Lonely Crags? How?
- What black powder technology does Jahur employ?
- What kinds of sea birds fly over the Sea of Typhoons?
- Who are some other inmates?
- How do inmates manage smuggle things to and from their prison?
- What power does the King of the Rocks have outside his little realm?
