Varada is a city on the edge of the frontier- wealthy, burgeoning with those reaping the benefits of exploration, and poulated with those profiting from travel through it. It is a place of change and progress, as well as long-held privilege and archaic traditions. The wealthy of Varada have built upwards, expanding their homes into steeple-like needles of strata. It is a mark of one's own station that they can claim multiple storeys to their home, and 'looking down' on others has never been quite so literal.
This has led to a thriving trade in thievery, and conflicting guilds or gangs, often clashing on rooftops during the night. The people of Varada keep their windows shuttered and ignore loud noises at night, allowing the gangs to have their way. It is an expression nearby to have "Varadan blinders on", meaning 'to ignore things going on around you'. It is in this way that the people of Varada have entirely failed to notice the nest of Vampires making the city their home, passing of their victims as merely victims of thieves, cultists, or missing persons. Varada is a thrilling and dangerous place to live or inhabit, and could be transplanted easily into almost any campaign setting. Also posted on Game Masters Stash on 29 March 2021. Comments are closed.
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