يناير Saba' al Khair

 

News

• The Long Wake has come and gone, concluding with Stillest Night during the week ending 27 January, and the Coreguyi Games hard after that. Gan ad-Din will have his debut in these Games (following his debut in the Ittiyqa arena during the Zihuitlani Games early last year, though only reported recently). These Games will be the subject of our next game on 10 February
• Najm ibn Marwan took his new ship, Rihha, on its maiden voyage to the half-sunken city of Babilar in the midst of Dirac's Sea. He and his companions returned with curious wares and some rumors of his and his companions' involvement in the life of the city; there will no doubt be return voyages in the future.
• The Attine Klackons, specifically those of the Fifth House, agreed to Iqtadar Sesel's request for a princess for the Klackons of his estate. No date is established yet, as preparations are in Sesel's hands, but eventually there will be a procession from the Spire to Sesel's iqta' leading this princess thence.

Rumors

• There is currently a constant kerfuffle at the Court of the Moon in Gadeed, where the Souffets are in a flurry--a fury?--over some apparently evil news they have received.
• It has become a kind of ghost story going around town that the Survivors of the Tel opened a magical portal in the library of Cothon-Under-Star. Details differ--some say it is a portal to the realm of the dead, others say they are able to traverse directly into the Tel al Safina, some say it is a portal to Sesel's iqta', and some claim, absurdly, that it's a portal into another library. Well, now there are rumors that they have done the same in the Herm & Stone as well ...

Items of Interest

• The Confraternity of 'Issa the Baptist is offering a bounty of 1000 dinars per shanu'u egg, or 3000 dinars per shanu'u fledgling on behalf of the Alkari of the coast (from Kir Sabaha). Shanu'u (gryphons) are known to roost in the high hills and mountainous territory over the Turma River to the southwest of Gadeed, especially over the Cataracts.
• Dindins are still plaguing the waters between Ittiyqa and Cothon and attacking fishermen and sponge/pearl divers there (see here for a former effort at hunting them). A more formal bounty has been placed upon them, claimable in any of three harbors, Ittiyqa, Cothon, or Baldashmun: 250 dinars per 3 dozen stone weight [don't be scared--this means 250 dinars per hit die, but we wanted to provide a diegetic number ~the Scribes]
• Per the inflammation of the Red Cloud's aggressions, a new bounty is being instated in Cothon: any detached head of a Kzin can earn one 200 dinars, while any live Kzin captive can earn one 500 dinars. Kzin lieutenants or captains would be worth at minimum twice such a bounty, but possibly far greater, depending on the importance of their position