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Heartland anvil stand9/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Tool Proficiencies: Calligrapher’s tools.Įquipment: A set of calligrapher’s tools (one of your choice), a set of fine clothes for public appearance, a set of traveler’s clothes, a book of regional case precedents, perfume, soap, a steel mirror, and a purse containing 10gp. Skill Proficiencies: Choose two from History, Insight, Intimidation, Investigation, and Persuasion At its worst? It becomes a dire, often petty, war over others’ lives. In ideal circumstances, this is a negotiation to benefit all parties. Together, these advocates and magistrates seek public justice. Folk tales about a wise elder being spooked into a heart attack by the sudden, spectacular appearance of an Empress or Emperor in a flash of magic abound, and especially in recent generations, have been entirely accurate. While there are no technical requirements for a magistrate, the head of the Empire must be swayed by the testimonials of a trusted advisor and rarely appoints a magistrate without at least a brief personal interview. These advocates present their arguments to a local judge or to an imperial magistrate - a wandering judge appointed by the Empress herself to decide these cases. From civil conflicts to dire crimes, you speak for your charge to ensure a balanced and thoughtful review of all sides - at least, in theory. An advocate can be hired by parties or provided for free, but the quality of an appointed advocate relates directly to the wealth and good intentions of local governors. Those who represent aggrieved or accused parties are known as advocates, and must meet certain standardized test requirements to be recognized by imperial courts. Advocate/MagistrateĮither in the Capital itself, or in the countless wayholdings and territories under the Empire’s influence, it is up to you to uphold the public justice. This network, built on relationships, ledgers, and communication, has shaped the lifestyles of its citizens. This network facilitates travel, communication, trade, and the rapid flow of the empire’s professional soldiers. Their personal wayholding, the hilly slope at the center of a great lake splits the lanes of the great southward river road and serves as the heart of the imperial highway system - a hard-earned marvel of marble roads cutting to nearly every major hub on the continent, with guard posts at every horizon. Life in the Capital serves as a beacon and a model to the rest of the Dream, or so the Lohrian insist. Those born too close to that arcane wasteland may develop as Blood Inheritors of this new corruption. Half-elves are more common in the east, where the Old Wilds rise on the horizon, but much of the area was lost to Lion's Fall. The noble families of the capital maintain a number of long-held Arcane Lineages. Most citizens of the imperial interior come from cosmopolitan or grasslands cultures. ![]()
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