Gentry/The Illustrious Master of the Teeming Streets
The Illustrious Master of the Teeming Streets
The Master is a Gentry local to the New England area created by Ian.
Description
Realm - The Midnight Market
The Midnight Market is a cacophony of activity, plunged into eternal night. Lit by brilliant lanterns and festooned with exotic blossoms, an enormous maze of buildings create the labyrinth of the teeming streets. Houses which maintain the headquarters of various gangs that roam the constantly changing borders of their territories defend and attack one another with alarming frequency. Riotous street parades with crackling firecrackers, floats, and dancing dragons spring up spontaneously and move through the city. Shops bustling with anything that one might imagine from exotic delicacies and brilliant fabrics to strange animals and weapons of war are stacked up on top of one another. From brothels and bars, to gaming houses and tranquil gardens tucked away in all corners, there is no end to the activity and the chaos of the Midnight Market.
Methodology
The Illustrious Master is constantly looking to fill his realm entirely indiscriminately. Every so often he looks for groups to take, those who might create a particularly violent gang, provide a particular sort of entertainment, make refreshments, or possess particular skills lacking in the market. More often than not, however, he simply sends bands of Loyalists out to collect any who they might sucker into going with them. They are usually kidnapped roaming too close to the Hedge, or taken from those who might find themselves stumbling home from a drunken bar brawl only to awake in a far more impressive one.
His is a love of passion, anger, violence, and beauty combined -- where none are truly the hero and none are truly the villain. He fashions his creations for all the thrill of an action movie with magic, mayhem, romance, and intrigue. Almost any sort of creation might come out of the Market, but it is guaranteed that their durance would be one of chaos, danger, and color. There are few reserved flowers who survive the Midnight Market.
Suggested Themes for Escapees
The Midnight Market is filled to brimming with shops, restaurants, entertainments, opium dens, gangs fighting with one another, temples, hidden gardens, and everything in between. There is a distinctly mixed-Asian flavor that can't be pinpointed to any particular country, as though aspects that the Master appreciates have been borrowed from all over and blended together.
- Beast - Those common to Asian folklore are prevalent, symbolizing and resembling myths and legends surrounding them.
- Darkling - All manner of Darklings find their homes in the dark and narrow alleyways and the myriad shops of the Midnight Market.
- Elemental - Almost every element is represented, with a tendency toward the aspects common to folklore.
- Fairest - Usually serving as entertainment, pleasure, and among those who roam the streets as parts of the various gangs in constant battle.
- Ogre - Oni and Ogres of all sorts are common and work as labor within the Market as well as make p a good number of gang members, fighting with other rival gangs.
- Wizened - All manner of Wizened can be found throughout the teeming streets, filling the shops and performing services to the various gangs in the area in return for protection.
