Campaign Corner

For the Mualim ad-Jaffir, Shahanshah of Bedrass, the last decade has been good. In ten short years, ad-Jaffir has conquered feudal lords, united a kingdom, quelled his enemies in court, and at a ripe age of 73, fathered a fifth son to his line. What was once a weak and rapidly decaying lineage has transformed into one of the most powerful the region has ever seen.
Fate has paid him a kindness denied to many now trapped beneath his influence. A great purge has begun to sweep across the united states of Bedrass. Dissidents, undesireables, citizens of what few independent nations still writhe beneath his grasp, all have been either killed or struck with chains and shipped out. Those lucky enough to be bound in chains find land in the chaotic island archipelagos far east of Bedrass.
The tropical islands of Pelay in particular form an immense penal colony. Slaves and exported undesireables alike toil in the sugar fields and indigo plantations. Here, out of the sight of the shah, they find a new master, his nephew Hareem ad-Jaffir. The Governor of Pelay is heartless if distracted gaurdian, and corruption webs the island nation (often at the expense of the unfortunate indentured laborers). Pirates litter the Northern coasts, and smugglers pack the ports as often as honest merchants.
Pelay may play house to deeper mysteries, however, as ancient ruins duck behind thick jungle, and strange ailments sweep outlying ports.

This sweaty den of corruption and inequity is your character's new home. Fresh off the boat from Bedrass, with the scorn of the shah still stinging at their backs, it is on their fulcrum that the fate of Pelay will turn. They were brought here among other political prisoners by the Prince Kalib, some of them close associates of the characters themselves. One of the five sons of the shah, Kalib himself was involved in each of their capture and, in traveling with them personally, has particular designs upon their tenure in the camps. As valued political prisoners of the shah, an eventual return to their homeland is a difficult prospect. Instead, they are forced to turn to their very cage for opportunity.