THE COUNCIL OF THIRTEEN
THE COUNCIL OF THIRTEEN
As you step through the entrance way of the Shattered Tower, silence descends. The clamour of the city is cut off as if by an invisible curtain. The air is cooler and tainted with damp.
A long winding stairwell lead upways to the council chamber. Two great black doors bearing the sign of the Horned Rat bar the way. Beside the door is an immense brass gong and as a Rat Ogre smote the gong a single terrifying note ring out and the doors are swung opened, moved by some invisible agency, to reveal the Chamber of the Thirteen.
History
The Council By Garett Lepper
The Pillar of Amendments
Council Members By Garett Lepper
Council Guards
The chamber itself is vast and circular and barely lit. A hemispherical dais run round one edge of the room and on it a gigantic podium, draped in red and black. Behind the podium is thirteen chairs, some of them may be empty. Behind each chair hang a banner with the sign of the Horned Rat and in front of each chair hang a banner bearing the symbol of the occupants clan. The middle chairs banner depicits only the sign of the Horned rat for it is his chair. The walls of the chamber are covered i great red tapestries.
A green eerie spotlight pick out a point on the centre of the floor, where visitors take the stand when they speek to the Council. The floor is hollowed and beneath it lie a pool of starved monsters, half rats and half crocodiles. As the visitor speak to the Council he is blinded and the council members are mere shadows. He cannot target them with spells while he is a sitting duck to their missiles and spells. Albino Guards and Assassins wait behind the tapestries, ready to leap out at a single snarl from their masters. No one enters the Chambers and lives unless the Council members want them to.