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Name: The endless city 

Source: Gone with the Blastwave 

Category: Stronghold 

Alignment: The Slaughter, The Vast, elements of almost all in parts of the city 

Description: We find an unnavigable, ruined city that is the site of a war that has lasted so long none know the reason but to win. There are three main extent factions left go simply by colour as opposed to national identity of any form. There are the Reds, who seem to have poor equipment, but, rather clever, if boredom driven tactics, The Blues, who are better equipped for small arms, and the Yellows, who are the only faction that seems to field significant amounts of armoured vehicles, for all the good it does them.

The city does have some civilians, but they appear almost uniformly to be unaligned, begging the question of where any supplies for this war come from. Lastly, the city appears to resist attempts to escape it, generally, it is locally possible to reach locations, but any attempt to leave seems to inevitably lead to getting lost.

Curiously, the war in this location has continued so long that most survivors are inured to it’s terrors, but, there are plenty of apparently new recruits who have not become numb yet as well.

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(image from blue oyster cult video of their version of the story)

Name: Charles Le Sorcier 

Source: The Alchemist (short story) 

Category: Avatar 

Alignment: The End

Description: This man claims to have discovered all the secrets of alchemy in his youth. He lived with his father for years until a wrathful noble murdered him for a crime he didn’t commit. Charles killed the noble and swore a curse on the family line, so that no noble would reach a greater age than the first noble in the line he killed.Since then, without fail, nobles of this line have died at or before 32. Mostly by apparent accident. This has slowly caused the ruin of this line’s hereditary estates, towers on their manor have crumbled and generations have wasted their wealth trying to undo the curse. As was discovered by the last noble of the line, the curse had been false. Instead Charles Le Sorcier did indeed discover the secret to eternal life and had spent the last several hundred years on vengeance, killing each member of the line on the correct day, until he was apparently killed by being burned alive on accident by the last member of said line.