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The Shriven Imperium is a union of religious city-states along the northeastern coast that is subject to much more internal strife than their name might suggest. The shrewlike, mouselike, and possumlike peoples are constantly feuding about the religion to which they all belong; when they manage not to fight each other, they are constantly trying to expand. The languages of the Imperium are viewed as archaic and high-minded, like the attitudes of many of their representatives.
71. Old Zhulb's Attic
71. Old Zhulb's Attic
Today’s word is Attic, which is really tricky to work with so this might be a stretch. The boundary between the Prairiegrand and the Shriven Imperium is a plateau rim known as Old Zhulb’s Attic, named after the demonic legend of Zhulb. The attic is defended by itinerant foresters belonging to the Nameless Order who attempt to forbid incursions by the Imperium, taking great advantage of the wilderness and the heights.
What can be found or done here
Investigate recent murders among the Nameless Order; fight against an Imperium raiding party; explore the rocky passages behind countless tiny, tall waterfalls.
72. Molder
72. Molder
We will start by transforming today’s word (Decay) into something more archaic to fit the landscape. Molder is a swampy, scraggly moor between the cliffs and the sea, and it is home to ancient mousefolk who think they still have power even though no one pays attention to them anymore.
What can be found or done here
Restore mousefolk artifacts to a mansion on the moors; explore the half-sunk ruins of a temple; rebuild a waterlogged roadway from before the Imperium.
73. Kirk
73. Kirk
Today’s word is Church. The city-state of Kirk stands proud upon a rocky half-island, half-peninsula, peopled by mousefolk who love to burrow into the seaside cliffs and otterfolk who dwell on outlying islands. Everyone in the Imperium argues that they are the source of all divine power, but Kirk may have the right of it—at worst, they have the most churches, and the biggest.
What can be found or done here
Tour (or rob) a cathedral; scour the shallows for the treasures of the past.
74. Midden
74. Midden
Pit is downgraded to Midden: a refuse-strewn corridor between city-states that have lived in a permanent state of warfare, each trying to dump their trash in the territory of the other.
What can be found or done here
Dig through the trash for something valuable, rare, or forgotten.
75. Leviathan
75. Leviathan
Today’s word is juggernaut, which already feels kind of archaic, but a step farther arrives at Leviathan. The shrewfolk of Leviathan like to build enormous creations to glorify their religion: towers, cathedrals, lighthouses, ships, wagons, balloons.
What can be found or done here
Topple a colossus.
76. Strand
76. Strand
Strand is a collective name for all the various stretches of beachland with no proper towns, only villages that are constantly trying to escape the notice of the bigger city-states.
What can be found or done here
Rescue the downtrodden; hide and recover.
77. Tempestuous
77. Tempestuous
Off the coast lies an island wracked by Storms known forever as Tempestuous. The bravest and most resilient otterfolk—along with scattered others who can make the stormy crossing—live amongst seaweed, rockspray, and albatrosses.
What can be found or done here
Seaweed, rockspray, albatrosses, and hostility.
78. Chaos
78. Chaos
Chaos is already an old word, and well worth keeping. Chaos and disorder is a thing ostensibly despised by all the pious folk of the Shriven Imperium, and is the name given to the inland counterpart of Midden, the grounds where no one else wants to go, crawled over instead by the unwanted, the exiles, and the vagabonds.
What can be found or done here
Find someone who has been banished.
79. The Qualm
79. The Qualm
Doubt is not permitted in the Imperium, a fact represented no more clearly than by the Qualm, an inquisitive organization that roots out all doubt and lack of faith. Their agents are flung far across the continent, and can strike at anyone and drag them back to cavernous dungeons by the sea.
What can be found or done here
Free a prisoner from the dungeons; steal espionage intelligence.
80. Kinesis
80. Kinesis
Perhaps the most militaristic shrewfolk dwell in Kinesis, some distance back from the sea at the mouth of a short but active river. They field their own armies as well as expensive, deadly mercenaries, either individual fighters and bravos or whole companies that fight in fearsome phalanxes for the right price and the right motivation.
What can be found or done here
Hirelings.
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