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Dusty Jewel

A small trade outpost along the Estuary of the Forked Tongue. Owned by Hargo Vole

The jewel isn't much to look at, but when you're out of supplies and looking to avoid the heavy taxation of Balic, it's a shining gem in the desert. Owned by Hargo Vole, it has maintained decent operations despite growing oppression from Balic's interest in expansion.

Just about anything you need can be obtained by Hargo, given enough time and money.

Tomblador

One of top three most powerful merchant houses in Balic

Tsalaxa

A merchant house of ill repute

House Tsalaxa uses various legitimate trade ventures to conceal its blackmail, espionage, and assassination schemes. Its representatives are feared for their ruthlessness—and for their ability to strike without mercy when threatened.

• Atlas
  Balic

  The city of Sails; a massive city-state that sits on the fork of the Estuary.

  In Balic, we treasure our freedoms. You are free to speak as you will. Of course, Androponis is also free to speak as he will, which might very well be an order for your execution. Choose your words with care, my friend - Darian, a patrician of Balic
  
  The wealthiest of the Seven Cities, Balic is a mercantile power known for its democratic systems, though the senate does bow to Androponis' wishes.
  
  Trade is the lifeblood of Balic, and whether it be food, goods, or slaves, one can find plenty in the city-state.

  Blackroc

  A balican fort on the Dragon's Palate; used to protect skimmers from pirates and giants

  Kalidnay

  Once a great city-state, overnight it was destroyed, leaving nothing but ruins

  North Ledopolus

  The trade settlement north of the isle of Ledo, hardly a city-state, but quite prosperous.

  While technically not a city state, Ledopolus seems to be a city in the making. Currently, a bridge is being constructed between North and South Ledopolus to unite the two, making travel across the Estuary much easier. Unfortunately, the manskull tribe-- hill giants who live on the isle of Ledo-- have made construction nearly impossible, twice destroying the construction.

  Samarah

  A western port along the northern side of the Estuary of the Forked Tongue.

  It's a small walled port (the wall is chin-high) with a tiny harbour (although large enough for a fleet of twenty silt schooners) and a cobblestone plaza with a well encircled by a wall of gorak bones. The harbour is reached through a narrow inlet and only has one quay. Its has fifty two huts that are made from stone, shaped like beehives with a roof of gorak hide. The inhabitants seem to farm goraks, do some hunting (with bone spears) and there is also mention of chadnuts, so they might grow those as well. In the book its headman is an elf-tarek halfbreed called Riv. Riv says that most of the villagers are slaves who came there after fleeing the cities.
  
  The Templar magistrate, Praetor Thalnus, is the true power in the port, however. His legion provides all of the protection the port has.

  Stony Barrens

  Bedrock shelves exposed by windstorms.

  Stony barrens dominate the Tablelands. Most barrens are bedrock shelves exposed by windstorms. These weathered plains are covered with rocks that range in size from pebbles and gritty dust to huge piles of standing boulders. In places, the bare rock gives way
  to hard-packed red earth, and yellow sand collects in crevices, forming dunes or drifts. Huge mesas and pointed buttes dot the plains, a testimony to the erosive power of the elements.
  
  Cacti proliferate in stony barrens. Hundreds of species grow throughout, appearing in all shapes and sizes, from small, thorny buttons to towering saguaros. Some cacti are edible, making suitable fare for travelers low on supplies. Others are stealthy predators that can kill careless travelers; in the Athasian wilderness, one can never be certain who is the hunter and who is the hunted.

  The Gray

  The dead of Athas end up here after they die and are caught in an eddy and gradually fade away to nothing.

  When someone asks the spirits of the dead dwelling in the Gray where they are they reply "nowhere" and when asked who they are they reply "no one." They can however prolong their existence by dedicating themselves to a cause which is greater than themselves.
• Monstrous Codex
  Jhakar

  A vicious, powerful reptillian predator

  
  
  The jhakar (singular and plural) is a powerful reptilian predator resembling a scaled bulldog. Its hide is thick and wrinkled, and it has four short, muscular legs and a short, stumpy tail. The jhakar’s head is mostly mouth, with a blunt snout and a gaping, powerful maw. Its ears and eyes are well-protected beneath heavy ridges of bone and double sets of lids. The jhakar is sandy brown in color, with a darker snout and claws.
  
  In the wild, the jhakar hunts in small packs that fiercely attack to pull down all but the most formidable prey. However, the creature is better known in cities as a domesticated guard-beast and tracker of escaped slaves. Domestic jhakar are savage and unpredictable creatures, greatly feared by would-be thieves and escaping slaves.
  
  The jhakar is often domesticated as a blood-hound or guard-beast. It is an aggressive and stupid creature and has difficulty recognizing its handler from one day to the next. However, it is an excellent tracker, and once on the scent, it never gives up the chase.A wild pack of jhakar hunts a man or an elf as readily as any wild creature. Once they have scented prey, they never give up. Jhakar attack in one bounding rush, hissing like steam-kettles when they catch sight of their prey.
• Organization
  Desert Shields

  Solaris's former mercenary group.

  Shattered by a surprise attack by a group of raiders fielding numerous defilers the shields are now a fragment of what they were. What was left of their organization traveled to Tyr to seek employment either under or noble house or with the city guard.