Monday, March 30, 2020

Piskaro

Piskaro
A location in Krevborna.

Piskaro is a dense city of teetering buildings crowded together like crooked teeth built atop canals at the mouth of the River Krev. Piskaro is a center of thriving maritime trade and a haven for pirates. Its wharves bustle with the lading and unloading of full-rigged ships, prison hulks are moored offshore, and dangerous quayside taverns are frequented by cutthroats and whalers who call exotic ports home. 

Although it is governed by Cardinal Solanka, a pious Chorister of the Church, grave heresies have taken root in Piskaro. Candle-strewn shrines devoted to those lost at sea are routinely defaced, sleep in the city is often troubled by hallucinatory dreams, and the deformed remains of aberrations occasionally wash up on shore. A series of brutal murders have troubled the city in recent years; it is believed that these murders have occult significance. Sigils and runes are scrawled onto the sides of buildings with chalk to ward off violent crime.