| name: | City of Korpel | |
| difficulty: | Easy | |
| pk type: | lpk | |
| life span: | 35 | |
| rooms: | 293 | |
| designer(s): | Ioannis | |
| story: |
| A long time ago, the city of Korpel was overrun with Bandits, thieves and
murderers. The town was losing its business owners everyday, and slowly the
streets became filthy and the buildings were burned for heat. The bandits
formed a pact and went on long marauding missions to the other nearby towns.
One man in Trader Center was robbed and stabbed in broad daylight. The people had enough, but no one was capable of stopping the unlawfulness. Until, a man dressed in a simple robe and carrying only a staff came to Korpel. Behind him, a legion of guardsmen and armored warriors. They entered the city and chased the bandits out the front gates. The men shed their armor and weapons and began reconstruction of the cities buildings. The Simply dressed man took active roles in the labor and hard work of rebuilding. News of the deed travelled quickly and soon, honest businessmen came to see what the city had become. They were welcomed with clean streets and large buildings to set up their market. The simple man was made a governor of Korpel and an expensive Mansion was constructed. The new governor had only a handful of servants to take care of the mansion and his son, while he handled the responsibilities of his station. It was rumored that he wasn't a simple man at all, but a man of royal blood from a northern town. The bandits became so enraged that their stronghold was reclaimed they planned to take revenge on the man. One night they attacked a band of merchants coming into the city, killed them and dressed up in their clothing. The guards let the men in to set up shop before daybreak. But instead of setting up shop, they snuck into the Governors mansion and kidnapped his son, to cover their escape they set fire to the mansion and holed up in a manor just north of Korpel. The governor was crushed by the news of his sons abduction and ordered a 100 men to capture the bandits where ever they might be. The guards went out on many scouting missions but never came up with anything concrete. Sometimes they would catch a brigand or two but the bandits would never tell where the leader was hiding. One day, the leader was captured, he would not reveal the whereabouts of the governors son, and claimed to have slain the boy the same night. The governor ordered the guards to take the bandits to Talorien for sentencing of their crimes. Before the ferry had been built, the trek to Talorien was long and exhaustive. Several weeks passed and the guards were never heard from again. It was whispered that the Bandits killed the guards and snuck into the dark forest south of Talorien. Today Korpel is a booming commerce city with the best fish market in all of the Empire. The governor disappeared one night, and his mansion has yet to be rebuilt. Some men say the Bandits took him too, but no one is brave enough to search that black forest of shadows. |
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