Or Osserys or Ossorys.
They live in The Ashberry Mountains (24.18).
They cultivate ashberries **to make **Ossery Fire
The people of the Ossory clan shoot jets of flame from their fingertips at will. Despite possessing such a terrifying gift, they are perhaps the least xenophobic witch clan. The clan has become wealthy trading their wine (Ossery Fire, see 24.18) with *Blind Midshotgatepool **(26.20).*
Every other witch clan covets their gold, but the Osserys’ bitterest rivals are their neighbors, the Dungers (25.17). The two clans have been raiding each other for generations. For a long time, the Dungers had the upper hand thanks to their noxious clouds. But their fortunes are reversing. Ivelyn Ossery, the clan’s chief vintner, has managed to employ a half-mad necromancer named Ranmore. Ranmore, when not muttering or weeping quietly to himself, commands a platoon of skeletons that move through the Dungers’ stinking clouds unimpeded.
Ranmore was discharged from the Necromantic Office (29.14.35) after showing signs of insanity. During his time there, he was contacted by a ghost he calls Jahbulon. Ranmore believes that Jahbulon has chosen him to complete a horrible but necessary task that will usher in a new era for Shuttered. The visions he received involved raising the White Road (26.13 *and 29.13)* and marching on Winds (23.11) and the Freeholds. Despite this, Ranmore was not deemed insane or dangerous enough for Shuttered’s asylums, so he was geased away from the city and left to his own devices. He is a modestly capable necromancer - very far from being able to raise the White Road. But Jahbulon, in his still voice, tells him that his exile is the beginning of the trial that will elevate him to greatness and destiny.
Connections
- Jahbulon is an approved Small God (29.14.32) associated with reason and masculinity. He is unpopular and obscure even among scholars, however, and hasn’t had a public shrine in Shuttered in nine years. Those who follow him assert that he was a saintly scholar whose extensive works evangelizing the virtues of rationalism and logic have been lost and destroyed.
- Jarn Ossory’s Rod of Adhesion is now in Castle Greymere and the family would like it back (20.00).
- The Osseries took the land in which they live from The Mirdenlows.
Hooks
- What do the Osserys do with all their gold?
- Just how insane does a necromancer have to be to become committed to an asylum? Does Shuttered fear that imprisoned necromancers will seek vengeance, or does exiling them benefit someone?
- Is the voice in Ranmore’s head really Jahbulon?
Ashberries and Ossery Fire
The Osserys use their mastery of flame to burn stretches of forest and scrub on their mountain slopes. From the ashes of the burned forests come ashberry bushes. The bushes’ orange fruit makes an exquisite, spicy wine that is known as Ossery Fire.
Connections
- Abdul (05.04) owns contraband ashberry bushes, but his attempts at recreating Ossery Fire have resulted in a poisonous wine that causes spontaneous internal combustion. But until drunk, only the keenest wine experts can tell the difference between the imitation and the true vintage.
Hooks
- Besides a pleasant spice, does Ossery Fire have any extraordinary qualities?