Smokesend is a strangely sparse plantation. Many families flaunt their wealth and style above ground with gorgeous gardens, ponds, and buildings, but if one were to stumble onto Smokesend, after an initial elegant stone plantation house in the style of many acts as a general meeting place for family and buyers but then the grounds simply have sporadic stone cabins, simpler granite structures to house slaves, and the expansive fields of tabacco are peppered with domed buildings used for drying and processing the plant all over the Rajors' lands.
There is a sort of verdant beauty to the flat expanse of land that surrounds
the sporadic stone buildings that peek above the tabacco fields. For leagues they stretch, every shade of green, vibrant purples and reds as well creating a rainbow of floral arrangements. On occasion the fields and their crop will be arranged in complex fashions, so that if one were to look upon the field from a bird's eye view patterns such as a slithering serpent or a billowing cloud of smoke could be seen from up on high.
Now the unknowing onlooker might ask themselves why. The Rajor family is no less wealthy than any of the Plantations that have made Kenash what it is today, so why do they not have the audacious show of wealth and status?
The answer would be that you are simply looking in all the wrong places.
The catacombs of Smokesend hold a wondrous assortment of stories around the holdings of Kenash. From romantic escapes (of which there are only a few) to sordid tales of blood and torture (of which there are many), few outside the Rajor family have gained access to the twisting, elegant stone work that lies beneath the Smokesend plantation. It is said there is a strangely muted beauty below housed in underground hotsprings, places of worship for the family and carvings depicting their homeland which was left behind not so long ago. Whether this tunnel system was made out of nostalgia for Zinrah, or simply a convenient way to keep other Plantations from spying upon Rajor activities few could say, but it gives a mysterious air to a set of lands that might otherwise appear abandoned save for their slaves in the light of day. It is rumored that the Radacke family has intimate knowledge of the Rajor's tunnel systems because of the aid it was required to set such an undertaking into motion.
Slave quarters are kept along the sides of fields, on the least fertile ground so as to fully optimize the rich soil that helps the tobacco blossom. They are generally simple boxes made from large chunks of granite.
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NPCs
Name: Shahessrajor
Race: Dhani, Constrictor
DoB: The 1st of the Summer Season, 333 AV
PoB: Zinrah, Falyndar
Title: Head of Household of Smokesend
Skills: Leadership 52; Poison 42; Botany 40; Weaving 38; Animal Handling 38; Wrestling 35; Agriculture: Tobacco 32; Wilderness Survival: Swamp 28; Musical Instrument: Drum 15
Gnosis: 2 Siku, 1 Bala
Additional Info: Hessra is a Dhani of exquisite taste, a calculating mind, and a taste for gardening. Having led a few of her own family and brethren out of the stifling jungles of Falyndar to the fertile land of Kenash, Hessra found her hobby for pipe smoking could flourish in an environment conducive to tobacco fields. With a knack for poisoning the competition and a love of all things green she and her family soon created a few new breeds of tobacco that shot the constrictors straight up the competitive line of Kenash's plantation families. Now Hessra can usually be found with a pipe in mouth and a tapestry in her hand. She oversees the growing rarely, but with an intensity that usually leaves slaves unable to work for weeks afterward if they are seen treating her plants in a fashion she dislikes.
Goods or Services
Tobacco is the primary crop that Smokesend deals in. However Smokesend doesn't just produce mere tobacco, their tobacco has built a reputation of being decadent and sinfully smooth. Visitors to Kenash often hope and plan their visits around Smokesend's famous tobacco parties.
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Smokesend Rollery** Written up by Tinnok
