1) Sure!
So for warships, the fastest builders are:
Selvard Haeleophar, Master Shipbuilder, of Telflamm (a brilliant, mercurial dashing ladies-man whose feuds and tirades are legendary); he has built armor-plated coastal rakers with fitted rams, oars as well as... #Realmslore
2) ...sails, and raised ballistae decks, in twelve days, but twenty-one days is the norm for his six drydock shipyard.
He has a rival, Vellard Sisters Shipwright of Tsurlagol, who can keel only three vessels at a time, but can turn out “bare-timbers but navigable”... #Realmslore
3) ...rakers or battle-caravels in eighteen days (the norm? slips to nineteen or twenty days before crews can sail a new warship on its maiden shakedown voyage).
The cheapest good warship builders are:
Pelandro Rahavillar, Pelandro’s Peerless Shipyards, of Teziir, .. #Realmslore
4) ...maker of old-design “cruisers” (the large but unarmored and not ram-equipped battle caravels) that can double as merchant vessels when not fighting. Pelandro was a dashing ladies-man, but nowadays is a flamboyant old romantic with a cane and much wistful... #Realmslore
5) ...nostalgia. And six wives.
Jhassala Lyrimmjakh, of Nimpeth, specializes in small, fast coastal rakers, slender and stealthy and utterly unsuited to ramming or carrying heavy artillery of any sort. They have minimal comforts (decking turns the hold into one big... #Realmslore
6) ...common cabin), but are beautiful and very swift; lee-boards can be dropped on the “inside” of a turn to help them turn tight and quick. Most are painted in dark colors; they lie low in the water, and so are suited for stormy seas. Jhassala’s grandparents... #Realmslore
7) ...were slaves in Nimpeth, and she fiercely hunts and assassinates any slavers trying to revive the defunct slave-trade (it collapsed in the Spellplague and never recovered) in Nimpeth.
The sturdiest warships are built (slowly) by:
Ruelrond Honadarr, Master...
8) ...Shipwright, of Hlath, famous among sailors as the builder of Honadarr’s Unsinkable Hulks,” wallowing wide-hulled, slow tubs that resist capsizing, are treated to be fire-resistant, and are nigh-impossible to sink (ramming them repeatedly or using storm waves... #Realmslore
9) ...to sail atop them and grapple to lodge atop, to shove them under ere cutting the grapple-lines seem to be the only ways to send one to the bottom). Critics sneer that they “sail sideways” and “have all the grace of a bloated dead ox carcass,” but they last, ... #Realmslore
10) ...and last, and last.
The most luxurious warships (“pamper-cabins” as well as fancy trim and brass railings and experimental ballistae and even mangonels mounted) are made (slowly and every expensively) by: Hargauntra Velrauthynd, Lady Master of the Waves, ...
11) ...of Saerloon, in Sembia. Her warships are large and beautiful, and much favoured by maritime powers for fleet flagships, to carry rulers or for celebratory sailpasts of cheering citizenry. #Realmslore
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In the 1490s DR, the shipbuilders who can make the most luxurious large ships are Anabravvur’s of Selgaunt, in Sembia (third generation firm, current head: Alpharra Anabravvur (unwed thirty-six-year-old albino woman, smart... #Realmslore
2) ...as a whip, coldly clear-headed, and VERY rich and well-connected in Sembia). They’re expensive, and so busy that they can afford to take their time (if you complain as a client, they just shrug; they’ve so much business waiting that they don’t care if they... #Realmslore
3) ...lose a client. Or six.) Their vessels are beautiful, elegantly designed, and superb in materials and workmanship.
If you want the fastest makers of rugged top-quality ships, when looks don’t matter but durability and seaworthiness in storms does, your best... #Realmslore
1) Meanwhile, in Ath Cliath…
Adventurer Rognvaldr Jonsson is making the rounds of the taverns, trying to raise skatt for a dragonslaying expedition. He’s carrying the scorched talon of a dragon he claims he wounded… #AthCliath#FateOfTheNorns
2) …two months ago, somewhere in “remote Hibernia.” He hewed the talon from “the claw that was seeking to slay me,” and it’s an impressive thing: a curving nail as long as a tall man stands. Rognvaldr says the wyrm… #AthCliath#FateOfTheNorns
3) …lairs in a cavern “full of gold,” and investors will all get “a helm-full, or more, each” if he can kill the dragon. Seithkona and galdrs may get more: ichor and scales and more from the wyrm itself, with… #AthCliath#FateOfTheNorns
1) “Don’t leave her in the street,” King Elvar advises. “People who leave trails of old ladies acquire certain reputations. Not something that matters to a king, but…” #epicfantasy
2) “Thank you, Your Majesty,” Chantratha replies, “but we do have a cunning plan.”
Wolf nods and opens the side door of Arvaeydur’s House of Nigh-Irresistible Pleasures once more.
To reveal, waiting inside, the many-tusked smile… #epicfantasy
3) …of Dardratha The Whipstrangler, Skorg to the Discerning. However, her eager grin falls when she gazes upon the face of the unconscious witch.
“Sarka!” She spits the name, and follows it with actual spittle.
“Foe?” Wolf asks. #epicfantasy
1) Gaj is a major market town in the foothills of the western end of The Maerthwatch mountains, where copper and silver (and a little gold) from local mines are smelted. Dwarves work the (shallow) mines, gnomes turn the copper… #Realmslore
2) …into wire in Gaj’s foundries, and traders come from coastal Chondath and Chessenta to buy the items made in Gaj (both wire grips for tolls and weapons, and wire mounts for jewelry and handles, such as wooden handles for… #Realmslore
3) …teapots and other hot vessels).
Gaj is an unwalled town that may soon become a city. It’s home to many crafters, and the surrounding farms supply it with ample goat cheese and milk, mutton, and vegetables. What its inhabitants… #Realmslore
1) Meanwhile, in Ath Cliath…
Word is racing around the taverns of a very curious event that happened just before dusk last night. A roofer hastening to get down at the end of a long workday slipped and fell from a… #AthCliath#FateOfTheNorns
2) …scaffold, plunging four floors to his—disappearance, into thin air, a scant instant before he would have splatteringly greeted the hard cobbles. He vanished in mid-despairing cry, suggesting that whatever magic… #AthCliath#FateOfTheNorns
3) …snatched him away not only wasn’t his, but that it took him completely by surprise.
So whose was it? Fey mischief? Some guardian seithkona or galdr or godi? Or…someone else?
SomeTHING else?
And again: why? #AthCliath#FateOfTheNorns
1) The Pirate King shows veteran experience by departing in a slow and leisurely manner, sidestepping to get out of view of the skorg or anyone else looking through the doorway before he begins to sprint.
Wolf calmly nods to… #epicfantasy
2) …Dardratha ere unhurriedly departing Arvaeydur’s House of Nigh-Irresistible Pleasures, and closing the door.
To find himself transfixed by the suspicious gaze of a woman who resembles nothing so much as a gruff, irate sheepdog. #epicfantasy
3) “You! Now that you’ve been in THERE, you’ve caught it!”
Wolf lofts an eyebrow. “I haven’t made any effort to catch anything, since my arrival in fair Thurnia. Could you be more specific?” #epicfantasy