Corco's Villa (IC)

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Originally Posted by TGLS

1) Let's check out what the mages of Tuguk have been working on. Maybe something they've been doing gets out of hand.

Magic in Tuquk is very limited compared to what Ogol has seen in the past. Lizardman shaman-knights bask in the sun to absorb magical energy that they use to produce energy. This is usually light, heat, and kinetic energy focused through metal.

The Orc shaman-knights meditate in glaciers, soaking up the cold as magical energy. They can shape ice, direct cold, and rapidly freeze-shape liquid water.

2) What are the main dissident groups in Tuguk?

The Blue Tusks are a group of Orcs who want the Lizardfolk expelled from Tuguk. They seem to mostly be wasteland orcs rather than the farming population that form the bulk of Tuguk. They're quite violent, conducting regular raids on Tuguk.
The Order of the Stone is a group of mining and irrigation experts that hold their expertise and benefit to the city is equal to the knightly orders that actually use magic, and push to have a seat on the council as an order.

Those are the two organized groups you can find about in the books. You get hints of other friction points. Farmer Orcs being denied apprentice positions in the grand order of knights. budget squabbles about infrastructure vs. military expenses. Arguments over whether Farmer orcs and wasteland orcs are part of the same people or not.

3) Which are likely to be playing with dangerous magic?

The order of the stone pointedly doesn't have magic.

The Blue Tusks have a good number of Orc shaman-knights, but seem to be working through traditional force.

Originally Posted by the_matrix_walker

Vassarious socializes and enjoys the parties and feasts. When in private, they reach out to the underworld contact and if they are willing to pay the funds from the first job, arrange for them to go to a war orphan's charity or the like.

That's a nice thought. There will be fatherless coming out of this war...

Vassarious will study the materials as time allows, with a focus on the political situation and players.

So the City council consists of 17 people:

• The grand masters of the five orders of knight-shamans.
• The heads of 10 clans: 3 of these are lizardfolk, 2 are wasteland orcs, and 5 are farming and mining orcs
• The master of irrigation
• The master of tunnels

Each seat has a vote. The five knightly orders are:

• The order of the Sand
• The order of the Glacier
• The order of the Sun
• The order of the Hammer
• The Grand order.

Sand, Sun, and Hammer are all lizardfolk orders, taking only shaman-knights working with heat and metal. The Glacier takes only ice shamans, while the Grand order takes both.

Vassarious notes that they have no currency, but that the number of iron forges in Tuguk has been increasing dramatically over the last two decades.