Pitchcliff (border town trade between the Carja and the Oseram)
Free Heap (young, independent frontier town built by work gangs who fled Meridian during the Mad King’s reign)
Renowned for their exceptional skills as smiths and traders, the Oseram represent a high-water mark of general technological knowledge in the world of Horizon.
Oseram settlements usually consist of circular or conical structures and exhibit considerable engineering ingenuity.
The walls around their villages are armor-plated. Gates are drawbridges or porticullises.
Winches and cranes transport goods over the walls to waiting porters or boats.
Blast furnaces melt down salvaged metal which artisans mold into weapons, armor, or a dizzying assortment of component parts.
Though the Oseram and the Carja are currently at peace, the situation remains a politically volatile one. Access to Oseram territory for outsiders have been gated.
The Oseram in Free Heap lay claim to a rich seam of ancient metal and defend it fiercely. Many would consider these Oseram useful allies, though they are a source of frustration to their own tribe by refusing to adhere to tribal law. Or taxes.
When a character doesn’t realize they’ve been, like, shot or whatever and they hand brushes against their side and comes away wet with blood, and they’re just staring at it like wtf is this and then their knees just totally give out on them and they sink down, maybe gasping a little as the reality finally hits them. That’s good stuff.
I see that, and raise you a character who knows they’ve been shot, but waits until the rest of their crew is out of sight to put their hand against the slowly spreading stain of blood on their shirt, then trying to steady their breathing so they can follow without letting on how injured they are.
Okay but like the character who doesn’t realize they’ve been hurt trying to see if everyone else is okay only to slowly realize that everyone is looking at them with mounting horror. Then they touch their side to find it’s wet and oh no
When a character doesn’t realize they’ve been, like, shot or whatever and they hand brushes against their side and comes away wet with blood, and they’re just staring at it like wtf is this and then their knees just totally give out on them and they sink down, maybe gasping a little as the reality finally hits them. That’s good stuff.
I see that, and raise you a character who knows they’ve been shot, but waits until the rest of their crew is iut of sight to put their hand against the slowly spreading stain of blood on their shirt, then trying to steady their breathing so they can follow without letting on how injured they are.
And Sometimes a Potato 