Duskwatch

Stub-class article · First seen: pre-campaign brief; ledger recovered s6 · Last seen: ongoing reference
Duskwatch
Dust Watch
Duskwatch — portrait.
Location
StatusUnvisited
First seenpre-campaign brief; ledger recovered s6
Last seenongoing reference
FactionVelkris

Duskwatch is the major port of Velkris and a known smuggling hub: the destination listed on the forged shipping ledger the party recovered from Maelis Dirn in The Warrens [1]. Bio-gloom toxins, stolen goods, and other contraband from Umbrafall route through Duskwatch on the way up the Greywater River to Velkris proper. World-brief canon (“the Treaty of Duskwatch (607 A.I.)” is named in the brief). The party has not visited but is contracted by The Broker to deliver the ledger to Silent Intake near “the Talking Skulls” entrance, presumably in or near Duskwatch [2].

Overview

Duskwatch is Velkris’s named port — the dock-end of the river-trade that the Council of Factors taxes from upriver. The world brief names the Treaty of Duskwatch (607 A.I.) as the moment Velkris stepped in to settle a war over river trade and started taxing every ship passing through. The town has therefore existed at least since Velkris’s rise to its current river-toll dominance.

In-campaign, Duskwatch’s significance is as a smuggling hub. Maelis Dirn’s forged shipping ledger — recovered from her research desk in [1] and held by Hugo — describes a route taking goods (bio-gloom toxins inferred) through Duskwatch toward Velkris. The Broker in [2] advised the party to take the ledger to Silent Intake, a counterfeit-document organisation near “the Talking Skulls” entrance in Velkris (or possibly Duskwatch itself); the reward is described as “heavy.”

Geography and appearance

Not described in detail. The world brief implies a port of size: docks, warehouses, customs offices, and the Velkris Order-of-the-Veil presence that controls the wharves.

Government / control

Velkris; specifically, the Council of Factors and the Order of the Veil.

Status as of session 16

Unvisited. The Duskwatch shipping ledger remains in Hugo’s possession; the Silent Intake delivery is the most-foreshadowed Velkris-arc plot beat. The ledger was specifically named at the end of s10 as one of the threads the party was deferring.

See also

References

  1. ^ Session 6, line 1226-1263 — Forged shipping ledger routes through Duskwatch.
  2. ^ Session 7, line 745 — Silent Intake near the Talking Skulls entrance.
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