Once a timber hamlet renowned for honeywine and lightboats, Berez now sits like a wound on the riverbank, its docks slick with old blood and fungus, its cottages half-burned and occupied by animated corpses and aching spirits, and a thin living population eking safety in ruins and secret cellars beneath collapsed mills.
Where the river remembers those it could not save.
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Regent of Berez for the Crimson Court
A tall, pale noble who walks the docks at dusk and tastes honeywine for hints of defiance.
Former sawmill foreman, now an obedient steward by day.
A gaunt man with sap-stained hands who hums old work-songs that turn the air cold.
Keeper of the River Remembrance rites and medium for the dead.
A ribboned woman who stitches names into sacral cloths and speaks with voices not her own.
Operator of the haunted skiff and secret smuggler.
A translucent boatman with waterweed hair who accepts both coins and confessions.
Former vintner and guardian of the honeywine cellars.
A stout woman with stained fingers and a laugh like breaking wood.
Cellar shop and apothecary
A semi-submerged cellar where lights are kept low and trade is done in whispers and knocks.
A mix of thralls, bound spirits, a few brave living, and the odd noble envoy.
A low-ceilinged longhouse where survivors trade rumors to ghostly music and Crimson Watch patrons share spoils.
Vampiric oligarchy
Seven nobles rule from afar through regents and thralls, harvesting both timber and living flesh with bureaucratic cruelty.
Spiritual resistance
A loose confederation of mediums, wraith-sympathizers, and hacks who trade in rituals and secret burials.
Smugglers and freedom-seekers
Boatfolk and rogue carpenters who use hidden inlets to break the Court's monopoly and help refugees escape.
A stretch of shoreline where plaintive voices answer one's name from the mist.
A half-submerged wheel that turns slowly with no visible power and draws the water cold.
Cold caverns of casks where both tainted and rare untainted vintages are hidden beneath ruin.
A stand of birches where spirits gather each dusk and the living feel a pressure in their chests.
A buried keg of holy honeywine can cleanse vampiric thralls for a short time.
An old river pact once bound the Crimson Court's local line and can be invoked to force a withdrawal.
A tunnel under the docks leads to the Court's ledger vault and the names of nobles who purchased Berian timber.
Steal the Ledger
Sneak into the ledger vault through tunnels under the docks and steal records proving Crimson Court corruption to rally allies.
Free the Taken
Track the chains of those carried to the Court and liberate a named captive before the Night of the Seven Throats.
Silence the Wailing Grove
Discover why the spirits gather and perform a rite to calm them, risking drawing the Court's attention.
The Child Who Wouldn't Bend
Protect the resistant child and learn why they withstand vampiric conversion while shielding them from Maelara's agents.
