Duno Hollows: Inspired by Lake Ontario. The smallest but deepest of the lakes. Features rich blue, glistening waters, the cleanest looking. Has the most beautiful of port towns. Perhaps home to that beautiful town King. Home to mystical birds of prey and man-sized sturgeon and trout, which the bids battle or hunt.
Isinblad Bog: This name means something like “Sturgeon bladder”. Not really a lake, but a marsh or bog connected to Mont Sand. Inspired by Lake Erie. Contains vicious creatures and difficult to navigate waters without a shallow ship.
Mont Sand: Inspired by Lake Michigan. The most inhabited, built-up lake. People from this lake are considered city people. Residentship grew because of the desire to live on its shifting terrains, since it has massive sand dunes, bluffs, prairies, beaches, and large trees overhanging the waters. Euchaberry is on this lake.
Suave Lake: Inspired by Lake Huron. A long, thin lake known for housing serpent monsters and having a sweet taste to its water.
Lake Glacia or Lake Glassa (meaning glacier or ice): Inspired by Lake Superior, the deepest, windiest, and iciest lake. Up north. The hardest of villagers, workers, and sailor reside here. The ice steps are up here too, and the Irksome Freeze. Home to some iron whales, dinosaurs, and husk hounds.
Efficient in illegal fishing operations and capturing any type of bounty, the Dwarven Fishermen use crafty tools to catch its prey. Never disbanded or defeated, but the entire Dwarven race is expected extinct after an attempted genocide by The Clerics during the Lighthouse Wars.
Joon Olivet’s faithful following. Known for stealth and bounty hunting. Broken up but still technically running.
Buckshot Cunningham’s crew. Now dispersed, mainly suspected dead or lost, amongst Breckon Bore.
Hailing from Windfall’s Snare, the original gang from the crime-ridden island before Buckshot Cunningham formed a new gang that poached many of its members.
All-female gang; they pose as nuns then sabotage their victims.
Popular—and traditionally independent and nonpartisan—newspaper and mail distribution service fueled by its workforce of cormorant birds. Nicknamed the CCC for its ability to reach mail recipients by land, air, and water (Coast, Cloud, and Coral).
Conglomerate trading company, owned and operated by Solt Vallark, involved in a variety of dealings, most notably live and dead animal trades, tobacco, spices, newspaper distribution (Cormorant Couriers), alchemy, ammunitions, lumber, and jailing. Owner of the Enchanted Vivarium. Debatably the highest powered organization in all Breckon Bore after the fall of The Clerics.
Former intellectual rulers of Breckon Bore. Overthrown during the Lighthouse Wars, segmented into businesses and gang factions.
Past conflict in Breckon Bore leading to the dismantling of Clerical rule; the uprising was fought by an alliance of renegades: Lango Guardians, gangs, pirates, fairies, dwarves, and various wildlife and human factions throughout the lakes.
A group of scheming, enigmatic beings who work as informal law enforcement throughout Breckon Bore, but mainly as jailers at Falcon Fog Penitentiary. They prove to be both allies and adversaries at different points in Jessie’s journey.
Magical surgeons, physicians, and witch doctors who run The Soaring Beacon infirmary ship. They possess extraordinary healing abilities, by way of moving a life source from being to another, and provide guidance to Jessie on his quest.
Mermaids of Breckon Bore are native to the southern edge of Lake Glacia, most notably Vinehearth, where King Marimest held a wedding for his son, Prince Charles and his bride, until the celebration was invaded, and most of the attendees slaughtered. Those who hadn’t perished or vanished were nurtured back to health in the Enchanted…
Giant turtles, which migrate all throughout the Laurentian Lakes, but have maintained a presence in Duno Hollows—initially due to barriers to keep them near the zoo, but also because it’s a large, peaceful lake with minimal traffic. Legend says no sailor exits Duno Hollow unscathed because of the ferocious snapper. Llyda Croftwillow, however, knows they’re…
Flying beasts that hunt and mate during thunderstorms. The beat of their wings is known to generate lightning strikes and thunder.
Tavern for pirates and misfits. Located in the region called Windfall’s Snare, an island peninsula off the coast of Euchaberry.
Named Laurentian Lakes but crossed out on the map to read Lawless Lakes. Made up of four Great Lakes and a bog passageway:
Jessie’s stepmother, wife of Collin Qwake, and Roe’s Point lighthouse keeper. A resourceful and protective woman. She is shaken by recent events and becomes more cautious in her interactions with others. She is willing to go to great lengths to keep her loved ones safe, but she holds secrets, and surprises, of her own. Role:…
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