Dyvers, Capital of Furyundy, City of Marduke

City Statistics

Population: 250,000-300,000

Exports:

spices, spell components, rugs, textiles, fashion, fish

Imports:

precious gems, silver, gold, precious metals, gems, iron, metals, livestock, grain, unique metals for swordcraft, marble, alabaster, horses, paper, fine pottery, silk, jungle spices, jungle gems, Gibbil's wood, flintstone, Girru's oil, weapons, bows, glass, hourglasses, maps, printed materials

Ruler:

King Thrommel of Furyundy lives in Dyvers, Royal symbol of House Balvor is the green dragon, though gold dragons helped the house assume power.
House Fordad (Dyvers) is the other major noble house from the city.

Religious Ruler:

Archbishop Enduri (Marduke)

City Spell:

wind-related

Guilds:

Guilds have been outlawed in Furyundy, and the functions of guilds have been assumed by the noble houses.

Three major trading houses are Rieuwood, Chathold, and Wystill

Symbols of Great Families & private militias: Ram, Cockatrice (Fernald).

Description:

This city is smaller but older than Greyhawk, still, it could be considered the second largest city in the Flanaess. It is full of squareish, squatty buildings with very thick walls. It has one municipality with good and bad sections, but it none as bad as the Greyhawk slums or as great as the High and Garden quarters. Villas and mansions overlook the Velverdyva and the Nyr Dyv from atop the hill upon which this city is built.
The city is filled with people wearing hats, very fashion-conscious. Clothes are great and trendy. Dyvers is the Paris of Oerth.
Row of windmills along line. At the windmills, clerics of Marduke will give 3sp tour of the winding of the looms. Bishop casts a miracle at the head of Wind Alley. Marduke is Lord of the Winds. Winds drive the windmills with magical runes and inside buildings are looms on a massive scale. Magisters with wind rings are their thalmaturges who use a piece of what they move. Their symbol is ». These were around before the Aerdian Empire was founded. Founded 563 years ago by Alinas Belvor, spices, spell components, rugs, textiles in Furyundy. Saints make loom, etc. and invented a special weave. Ingenuity clerics of Marduke—the river of material wealth is the Great River of Life.
Garden Square is the Louvre.
Welcome to the church. There are five great entrances and fifty stained glass windows. Church of Dyvers has Shield Knight guards. Incense at the doors (Uptanenishiptum). Marduke is usually gray with gold, and the church is filled with St. Cuthbert icons. There’s a leather armor guard. Cambrian—assistant to the guildmaster (sister dating a guard).
Harbor Street, Dock Street going to Nyr Dyv.

Rules of Dyvers:

Only Furyundian nobility can enter the High District without special permission from the church or from a city official
no insult to Thrommel
no plate mail unless noble
selling >50gp pay tax
merchants must check with the church
Dyvers coins only please
limit on magic (no thought, no inviso).

Locations:

Map shop owned by Yanu: has old Mardukian map of Furyundy –Willip, Chendel, Critwall, Iuz, Vesve Forest (Highfolk City), Passes through Yatill, Passes through Lortmills, River’s Crystal, Att, Ritensa, Kron Hills, Navigate Nyr Dyv, Celnatin, Wooly Bay, 3rd shelf up on left.
Harbortown near the city.
Harvest Square performances by bards.
Independent Carpentry shop
Neutral and/or discrete adventuring visitors stay in Cornucopia or Dyv Wayfarer’s Rest.
Anyone traveling on the Flan Road will find Nick’s across from the Mage’s Guild in the church. Welcome to Nick’s, the inn. They give us bacon and eggs. There are 60-70 people in a smoky room. Eight are shield knights. Dyvers natives. Guy in black at a table (Talos). Fat man with big hat and many instruments, daggers, scales. Burly man and two female clansmen possibly. Sylvan woman in green with leaf armor sitting with Shield Knights with Willip symbols. Ten blacksmiths. Two elvin people looking like travelers with daggers in their belts. Owned by House Rieuwood, head of the Butcher’s Guild.
The arena is south of the church.
The Hawk and Crow is out near the Old Church on Flan Road. Hawk and Crow is an old trading house, armed drivers go all over. The Gemcutter, Corundum (evil, colleague of Raith of Midmeadow—regularly gets shipments of Jesinth) founded it. Outside there is a fat guy in a donkey cart with packs with missing fingers. He opens the door and goes in, saying, “Tell the kid to tell Engander I’m here.” His name is Archeon, and he is killed in the alley somewhere that night. The warehouse is too well-guarded.
Members of the Horned Society hang out at The Feast in Dyvers.
People from Midmeadow hang out at the Windalley Roost in Dyvers.
The Temple of St. Cuthbert, who killed 7 vampires as a young man, is in town. Whenever you run into evil, St. Cuthbert is your man. Cuthbert himself built this church and was baptized in it. The Father in the church deals with people by hitting him with a cudgel (Cuthbert of the Cudgel), but it makes you know things (common sense).
The High District is the wealthy area of town. Guards explain that you need papers from the church or from city officials to enter. Within it are people in fabulous outfits and gardens and pools all around.
thalmaturgist shop, House of Cyrus
Temple to Graz'zt has a gateway to the Abyss in its catacombs. (See also Graz'zt and Mezzafgraduun)
Temple of Nerull one of it's patrons is a steward of a rich and degenerate local noble house. This old, squat, smooth and nearly seamless, basalt temple is in the religious district of the city. There are no other buildings immediately around it. The streets in the area are generally deserted, for the worship goes on at night and underground. A low wall surrounds the temple and it is topped with spikes, hooked outward and inward. The temple walls are smooth enough that there is a significant penalty for climbing them. Each sentry is paired with a black ape. The pairs meet and talk at scheduled intervals.

It is a tiered structure. On the first tier above the ground floor, there is a doorway from the outer balcony leading inside. It is often left ajar either from trust in the sentries or in hopes of gathering victims. A nearby stairwell leads down to the ground floor and main level, which is primarily living space for the lesser clerics and the guards. A well worn path leads to a secret door and a stairwell going down. When a ceremony is going on, a loud discordant clamor can be heard here. Drums, harps, chanting and other noises contribute to the cacophony.
Somewhere on this level, lies a small, circular chamber at the end of a corridor. It is bare save for four, high set, equally spaced, candle holders. When the one immediately to the right of the tunnel entrance is pushed up while its pricket is pushed upon, the entire chamber spins, giving access to the high priest's inner sanctum. An ogreish, son of Kyuss like creature guards the chamber. It is a rotting, barrel-chested, bow-legged, foul-smelling creature that has worms crawling around in the orifices of its skull. These worms are spat out as an attack form. It also fights with a pair of sickles. This room is merely the entry chamber to the High Priest's suite. It is all lavishly furnished and also contains a hidden treasure stash, guarded with glyphs of warding and poison needles. Multiple gems are kept here including a large dark opal with green flecks. See also Nerull.

NPC's of Dyvers

High Priest of Nerull this priest keeps his head shaved. He has dealings with other planar agents. He can cast a spell which kills or sends people to another plane via a red beam. He made a deal with the Lich of Liches on the plane of Shadow to exchange Gord's platinum and 9 black star sapphire necklace for a large dark opal with green flecks.
Current Archcleric is from Dyvers originally, born a fishergirl.
Mages in the Wind District, largest building has a Master Thamaturge, Magister Ludi (likeable from Weistall).
There’s an alchemist, member of House Strad with influence in the Theocracy with the Church of Anshar, creating potions within the city to sell outside.
Wizards at the Temple of St.Cuthbert help to battle the demons.
There’s also a magician in the Harbor District from House Weistill (a centaur). Fieldmar Atenuyal, High District.
High Priest Cobalt (assistant to Archbishop Enduri)
lawyers (High Priest Asandir) and scribes.
Nench’turi (darker skin) assistant to Bishop Dengbirth Adankai, fat, in charge of fabric coming off a loom.

Encounters:

Events:

In August 585 (YR7), Babylon marches forces of Suleimen over Waybridges to defense of Dyvers against Ketians. Conservatives criticize Taran for taking the time to march the army over the bridges (because they cannot be magically rifted), but the Suleimen (with anti-magic shells) prove highly effective against Ketian magics.

August 5, 585 (YR7), an eight-year old was murdered in Kelworth Inn and an evil ceremony performed using a Ruch of evil sacrifice, like the staff but not the staff. It was wielded by a dark friend, who stole 800 gp and gave back 5 gp to him, suspected spy of the Horned Society. Lorna Su’Merdan uses thalmaturgy to locate him using the traces from his cup from the inn, and we capture him and get reward, Shield Knight voucher for magical services.

August 7, 585 (YR7), a Ketian bird with 30 ft. wingspan and crimson and orange metallic plumage with beating wings (looks similar to a peacock) is 200 ft. away. It starts to caw. Flames form off the feathers in a huge ball toward us. It did a firestorm, and was throwing out walls of flames from its feathers. It has nice magic resistance (75% probably). We have two rounds before it circles again. Lorna Su’Merdan captures it with the walls of force. The party gets a voucher of services rendered from the Shield Knights and free Chendelian beer.

In 598 (YR20) Ketians are in town for cease-fire discussions. Pharaoh Amen-Hotep is there. Negotiations going on in the High District. Glass pyramids 35-feet tall with no obvious entryway (metal frame with silver and opaque glass) are in the center of the area. Ketians outside with man/bird symbols, bronze skin, chiseled features, language with lots of consonants. Pyramid opens and glass spreads apart to open portal. See ankh symbol. People are talking about clothes stylists, and chefs with Amathain Ram.