#rivermarket

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It’s been awhile ✨✨✨

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Cool shot. River markets, Bangkok

Feeling the cool vibes at the vibrant River Markets in beautiful Bangkok.

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any ideas for a druid villain who isn't a pro-environmentalism "extremist" who opposes the #just'n'kind authorities and such? i'd like to do one but honestly most suggestions are just to make a fantasy anti-civ unabomber and idk im not too crazy about the concept

Villain: The Eelmonger

While the scholars debate whether it is nature, society, or fate that makes a person cruel, remember my student that none of these things are kind or fair to most whom they govern. -From the diaries of Tarraji, country tutor

Hooks:

Every year a great festival is held across the kingdom to honour the queen's birthday, a tradition started by the previous rulers to celebrate the long-sought birth of their first heir, but maintained by the current sovereign as a means of sharing a little of her prosperity with her subjects, the crown footing most of the bill for the event. This year, just as people (and the party) are crowding into the rivermarket to enjoy the festivities, a horde of grotesque aquatic monsters surge from the water to rampage through the town.

Two days later when the last of the beasts is either slain or driven off, word arrives that similar attacks have occurred all up and down the central waterway, paralyzing the realm's economy and making travel tremendously dangerous. The party could go hunting the worst of the rivermonsters, or they could sign up to protect a daredevil merchant's cargo and make a small fortune crisis trading.

Along with all this chaos an old threat reemerges, pirates with a long hatred of the realm trawling for plunder in the wake of the rampage. Apparently exempt from the wrath of the seabeasts that still lurk in the rivers and canals, they fly a new flag bearing images of sharp-toothed eels, and sing songs in praise of an unseen master.

Dressed like a peasant and exalted by outlaws, the enigmatic figure known only as the Eelmonger has emerged seemingly from nowhere to overthrow the realm and topple the queen from her throne. Who is she? Why her unprecedented attack? How is she able to turn the great predators of the deep into warbeasts bent to her aims? Among all the uncertainly all that can be known is that she has seemingly declared war against the realm, and will not stop till the queen and any who support her have been reduced to meals for the ocean's scavengers.

Background: Sha's parents thought it was very lucky for their daughter to be born under the same stars as the crown princess, as in the old traditions of the kingdom such "celestial siblings" were thought to share their fortunes, and as poor fisherfolk eking out a meagre living from the sea that fortune was dearly needed. As Sha Grew however it became apparent that the stars played a cruel game of favourites, and whatever luck the oneday queen was given was taken in equal portion from Sha's own: The day the princess was thrown from her horse and rose mirraculously unharmed was the day Sha tumbled over the side of her family's boat in a calm sea and somehow broke three bones, the announcement of the king's recovery from the brittle sickness reaching Sha's village the same day they put her long-ailing father in the ground.

These transgressions were manifold, too obvious and cruel to be mere happenstance, and over the years and the grand festival-birthdays Sha's resentment at her distant royal sister and the injustice of fate filed her sharp and cold as a gutting knife. Things paradoxically got a little better during the pirate wars, when those foreign fleets took the town she lived in as their fortress, burning and pillaging many other settlements along the coast and great river. Sha, now a woman grown, felt her fortunes had reversed, as the pirates were all to happy to pay for her catch with handfulls of stolen coin, and her expertise with local cuisine saw her elevated to the position of landbound galleycook, feeding whole crews of cutthroats in between their inland raids.

It was not to last however, after a few brutal years on the defensive, the princess and her allies rallied and launched an offensive that shattered the invader's fleet and ousted them from the lands they'd set to conquer, culminating in a battle that saw Sha's town (and the life she'd built there) burnt to the ground. It was in the midst of that fighting, trapped beneath burning rubble that Sha saw her celestial sister for the first time, glorious and beautiful and totally ignorant of her existence, scaling the ruins of Sha's happiness on her way to future glory. Sha was pinned there for days, forgotten among the rest of the corpses; it wasn't until a great storm broke and washed the wreckage of the battle out into the sea that she was freed, her druidic powers awakening as she drowned and calling out to those creatures of the brine to aid her. Whatever warpath and hope she had for making a good life in spite of her sister she left below the surface, because as soon as she made landfall she started plotting her path back to the queen.

Goals & Schemes:

Ruination: As strong as her monsters are individually or as a horde, The eelmonger knows her beasts can't challenge the might or logistics of an entire kingdom. However, Sha grew up on the kingdom's waterways and knows that just like small tributaries fed the great trade river, the lives of farmers and merchants feed into the strength of the crown. If she has any hope of evening the playing field Sha must break the system that feeds the realm's warchest even if it means breaking the realm itself in the process. Monstrous chaos and resurgent pirates are just the first step: Targeting the merchants will cause supply shortages and beggar the realm, after that she'll move on to sowing famine in the farmlands. When there isn't enough to go round people will break down into factions, causing the army the well trained army the queen has inhereted to crumble before it ever reaches the field.

Fixing the broken scales: Simply killing the queen won't be enough. Sha reasoned out long ago that if she ever did direct harm to celestial sister whatever fate bullshit that connects them would likely redirect the outcome onto her somehow and that just wouldn't do. Instead she has to settle for making the soverign suffer by proxy, all the while searching for some means of attacking the connection itself. Those pirates directly privy to her plan are out hunting for priests and fortunetellers during their raids, anyone they could kidnap and bring back to the eelmonger to help correct this balance.

Saint of the Brine: Though she has no love for gods, Sha's vengeful ascent is watched over by a coldhearted deity of the fathomless seas, who has umbrage with this particular kingdom ever since the queen's ancestors laid claim to its bays and coastlines by slaying a titanic beast she favoured. The eelmonger is her unwitting instrument of wrath, and whether the gods involvement began during Sha's almost drowning or all the way back were praying for a safe birth is impossible to say. Though the eelmonger has unseen aid throughout her campaign against the crown, if the party is able to make their enemy aware that some god may be the source of her misfortune they may be able to divert Sha's wrath from the queen and the realm's inhabitants.

Art

[briannabrackens]

who: @qorbanmooton where: flashback to the reach, shortly before the wedding of king cedric tyrell and lady illya oakheart. this is prior to the attack on the rivermarket and all seems well in the realm.

it had been some hours earlier that her brother had spoken to her in advance of a scheduled meeting he had with the lord of maidenpool; that he would be within his office chambers when the man came to visit, and simply to summon him when lord qorban mooton arrived to their chambers. only, considering she had been looking over the accounts of the household of stone hedge with a quill's feather resting upon the end of her nose, she had entirely forgotten of the matter until she heard a page announce the presence of lord qorban mooton. "already? ah shite." she had completely forgotten the time, and had forgotten to arrange for refreshments to be made, she leaned up from her place by the sunlit window.

"get some cakes or somethin, will ye prudy?" she asked, quickly rising to her feet. "quickly wit yee! we cannae have the man visit and not even feed him."

crossing the chambers multiple chambers into the main audience chamber, she had no idea that there was a small smudge of ink beside her eye as she greeted the master of whispers, bowing her head out of respect for another council member. her dog clover was barking up large amounts of noise from the other room, where she had closed the door; it wouldn't be proper for the dog to be lounging about in such formal meetings. "m'lord mooton, sit down, please. i'll call me brother now." she indicated for him to take his cloak off, spinning on her heels and momentarily running into the side room, continuing to call over her shoulder.

"he be workin hard these days, on somethin." as she opened the door, there was the sight of the corgie excitedly leaping onto her, attempting to speed off to qorban. she attempted to wrestle her dog to be quieter, and stop him pawing at her skirts.

"shut yer gob now, clover. enough! enough lad!" her voice no doubt carried over the rooms, and she moved to the spiral staircase up to the private office apartments where ronan was currently working. and then suddenly, her voice raised dramatically to a deep bellow: something that usually only came out when she were incredibly vexed, or drunk on brightwater whiskey. "RONAN! LORD MOOTON BE 'ERE!" no doubt some of the servants upstairs would've heard her yelling.

as she crossed back into the room, quickly closing the door on clover again, she looked back at qorban with a forced, polite smile, as though she had not just belted her lungs out. she gestured toward the seat, her hands coming before her. "the lord shall be here soon; he spoke earlier of your visit." there was a quiet between them, and she cleared her throat. she had never been to maidenpool. heard much of it though. "how be the lassies, m'lord? did they at at home?"

[peachymee]

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[ratthewrodent]

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[mimisp]

Tried the lovely talented ladies of At The Corner’s new restaurant Flora Jean in the Rivermarket! DELICIOUS! Go try it! https://www.instagram.com/p/CoAEpnjOsRN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The train ride at #popsontherock #littlerock #rivermarket fun for #children and great for #memories @claydios https://www.instagram.com/p/CfuTeBxOosP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[sjamesbriggs]

The City Diner in the River Market area of downtown Kansas City. #kansascity #missouri #rivermarket (at Kansas City, Missouri) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYQLYMbLDqy/?utm_medium=tumblr

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[lesliesessums]

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[sjsikora]

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[theclinty25]

Had an eventful day today... excuse how ratchet I look. lol! #TheresTooMuchGoingOnRightNow #Gay #WereGay #HitItFromBehind #Bam #friends #Boyfriends #Ratchet #Instagay #Homo #YesHomo #HomoSayWhat #TeamFag #TeamBlueEyes #SomeBitchNamedDeltrese #PokemonTrainer #PokemonGo #TeamMystic #RiverMarket #Selfie #KC #GayKC #YourMother #DontTalkShitAboutTotal (at River Market, Kansas City)