Location Stormgrace

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Stormsgrace, home to the Paille family, curls around a quiet bay to sprawl out past the rush of marsh grasses and through the strong rooted sentinels of live oaks into a jigsaw collection of cotton fields. Theirs is a variety of houses built high on the sands of their Suvan shoreside, some on stilted pilings and others stretched across open crawl spaces floored by hard packed sand. Marsh grasses crowd dozens of narrow creeks and tributaries channeling from the sea into the surrounds before disappearing ultimately into the forest that guards the plantation on either end. The family resides in the three largest houses positioned at the points and center of the bay’s crescent moon shape. The house at the center of the crescent and perched over the waters themselves at the end of a grand pier is called the Eye. The two outlying structures are collectively called the Moats, referencing the clear ring surrounding the eyewall of a cyclone. Stephen Paille, head of the Paille family, resides at the Eye with his partner and their closest relations. The other family members lay claim to rooms in the Moats while servants live in a series of small, clapboard cottages lining the landward side of the oyster bed dunes. They face the two story barn and stables and crowd around a sprawling courtyard with patches of personal gardens between. Slave quarters dot along the single blazed road winding through the narrow strip of forest between the shore and the cotton fields where numerous, low buildings act as warehouses for freshly wintered cotton awaiting sale and/or transport. The family houses are connected to the foot of the Eye’s pier by well maintained boardwalks. Peppering these paths are beloved gazebos and little pocket gardens laid in with religious intent. Small, wind beaten shrines to Zulrav, Caiyha, and Makutsi are hidden amid clipped snarls of azalea and kudzu, often crafted from the weather-polished fragments of glass washed up onto the shore. Both family members and slaves have been known to create individual spaces amid the sprawl and it can be a source of revelation to stroll through on a balmy afternoon. Small, single craft floating docks rise and descend with the tide along the circumference of the Eye and landward along the pier until the end of the water line for use by arriving visitors as well as tying up the plantation’s fishing crafts and pleasure barges. Moderation Note : Feel free to self mod   Family NPCs Name: Steven Paille Race: Human, Drykas DoB: The 2nd of the Spring Season, 479 AV PoB: Kenash, Cyphrus Region Title: Head of Household of Stormgrace Skills: Leadership 65; Horsemanship 46; Riding 42; Tracking 32; Agriculture: Tobacco and Cotton 30; Weapon: Crossbow 28; Fletching 26; Wilderness Survival: Swamp 20; Etching 10 Gnosis: 1 Stormwarden Mark of Zulrav Additional Info: None yet.   Servant NPCs Name: Meridyn   Slave NPCs Name: Victor Gale Race: Human DoB: 3rd Fall 446 AV PoB: Stormsgrace, Kenash Title: Warden of Stormsgrace Skill: Leadership 37, Farming 62, Fishing 25 Gnosis: Zulrav 1 Mark Victor was born the son of a slave woman to toil in the Paille’s fields until the age of twenty-nine whereupon he was freed by Montgomery Paille, Stephen Paille’s father and predecessor. It is an open secret that Montgomery was Victor’s elder brother and that, alongside Victor’s clear potential, motivated the dynastic leader to train Victor in the running of his plantation. When not hard at work overseeing the day to day dealings of Stormsgrace for his nephew, Victor enjoys fishing and is known to have lengthy, involved conversations with his cat, Possum. ** Written up by Caelum