Connects to: 11.03, 25.16, 29.14.03, 29.14.52, 39.23.01 and the City of Shuttered Windows.
The patriarch of one of the richest of the Great Families of the City of Shuttered Windows, Count Seutorian spends little time in the city and refuses to set foot on ground, feeling that it would be demean one of his blood. When travelling, forty oxen pull the cart that draws his balloon through the sky. The balloon itself is one of Yilbar the Illustrious’ masterpieces and is emblazoned with a startlingly-lifelike image of Baron Harenghast’s mother.
However, the Count’s balloon usually remains at its mooring on the highest tower of his manse, which lies atop the first hill north of the City of Shuttered Windows to rise high enough to be free of the malarial air that lurks on the north bank of the Keening Sea and it is a splendid building indeed. The walls are paneled with ebonized wood with gilt trim and carvings of strange beasts from across the Shrouded Lands and beyond and his collection of furniture and objects d’art is as eclectic as his guests. His week-long parties, in which dwarf bankers rub elbows with transplanted dryads, are famous far beyond his estate.
Subhex:
- 30.12.01 (Brigadier Kalas Montra-brey, the Elfcatcher): this famous hunter is staying at the Count’s estate.
Connections:
- One of the Count’s nephews of a patron of the theater (39.23.01).
- Another of the Count’s nephew is the self-proclaimed Baron Farnsfall (11.03).
- The Count maintains a flock of peacockatrices in his garden (25.16).
- One of the Count’s current guests is the orc Brigadier Kalas Montra-brey, who Seutorian provides with assistance in his hunts in return for a promise of an elf slave of his very own, if Kalas can find one that meets his specifications.
Hooks:
- Who does the Count buy his art from? Adventurers? Does he treat them fairly?
- What interesting things happened at the Count’s last party? Who was there?
- Why did he have Baron Harenghast’s mother painted on his balloon?
