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Ashkyos was a city on the Ashen River in north central Khul and a haven for many peoples and races.[1]
Description[]
The city was currently ruled by the dictator Marshal Lakatos.[2]
Ashkyos was one of the cities located on the Great Northern Trade Route. [3]
Ashkyos was a violent and almost lawless city, similar to Kharé or Port Blacksand.[4]
Geography[]
It was divided into a number of districts:
- the shops;
- the warehouses;
- entertainers square;
- the markets;
- the docks; and
- the Old Quarter.[5]
The Old Quarter[]
The infamous Old Quarter was distinguished by its rowdy drinking dens, gambling houses and even more dubious establishments lining filthy thoroughfares. It was frequented by drunks and wide-eyed smokers of suspicious-looking water-pipes.[6]
The Markets District[]
In the Markets District the merchants buy and sell all kinds of wares; everything from food and fabrics to basilisk-skin cloaks, kegs of guursh, and magical pots and pans that clean themselves.
The merchants are varied in the origins. humans, dwarfs, elves, the odd furtive gnome, man-orc and even a lizard man peddling patent medicines and necklaces of shark's teeth for charms, could be found there.[7]
Crime[]
The city is a hive of crime with many a footpad roaming its streets. The infamous Ashkyos Guard was of little comfort, being a particularly corrupt and unforgiving institution. Some of its captains happened to be man-orcs.
Sport[]
In Ashkyos, sport is an important part of life with the Gladiatorial Park dominating Entertainer's Square, a throwback to Kabeshian influence perhaps.[8]
Population[]
Ashkyos' inhabitants were mainly human. There were some elves, dwarfs, lizard men and gnomes working as merchants in Ashkyos. There was also a large population of half-ogres, who often found work as gladiators, mercenaries and torturers.[4] Man-Orcs are found in the Old Quarter of the city.[9]
References[]
- ↑ Titan - The Fighting Fantasy World - ???; Master of Chaos - pg.29-30, p.229, p. 337
- ↑ Master of Chaos - 49
- ↑ Titan - The Fighting Fantasy World - p.123
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Ogre", Beyond the Pit , pg. 98.
- ↑ Master of Chaos - 229
- ↑ Master of Chaos 337
- ↑ Master of Chaos 181
- ↑ Master of Chaos - 208
- ↑ Master of Chaos 104, 337