Liore

The Deadriver City

Pronunciation: LEE-or (or, LEE-or-eh)

Term for People: Lioran

Names for Groups: Crew, Flotilla, Company

Masks: Commedia Dell’arte Masks

Most Popular Event: Carnivale of the Gods: Masquerade

They say Liore is as cutthroat as it is ancient. It exists in an area torn apart by calamitous miasma. Its people are viewed as decadent and diseased. Ornate Respiration masks and sumptuous, well repaired clothing disguise the scars and sickness beneath, with lucious balls and rowdy parties all held in the ruins of a crumbling city. Few of the buildings are occupied in the deserted urban jungle, and crews of Ruffians and Pirates squabble over the empty city territory in the name of Noble Benefactors. The practice of duelling to settle disputes is common and assassinations to finish them even more so. 

The Dead City is blessed with highly skilled traders and merchants, as well as an abundance in water magic. Much of the ruling class of Liore are wealthy merchants, overseen by the ruling Famiglias, ‘The Spiders’, headed by the Doge and the fabled and unseen ‘Council of Eight.’ Most Liorans live on their trade ships and are sponsored or hired by wealthy patrons. Each ship has its own minor God or figurehead, and all are subject to the whims of the Stars, Ocean and Weather Gods. The crews wander the oceans and rivers, talented at raiding as well as trade, with Lioran outposts smattered along driftwood coastlines and riverways, their leaders called “Captain” or “Commodore”. Priests on the ships are there to appeal to the Gods for good weather and bountiful trades, to predict oncoming storms and phenomena and to uphold crew morale.