Shadow of the Gorgon has an [Elizabethan tone with a rocknroll fantasy novel of Investigation and Adventure
Synopsis
The Gospel of Euryale A Folio of occult lore was stolen from an inner vault of the academy Library. A mother of pearl book of the goddess yes it was
Kelstung token, Dwarrow Goralche, artefact. “wear it and our kind will know you, as an ally and give you succour”
Characters
❤️ Archy (Steddorn , a dwarrow holder of Kerughast. ‘ “Hidden Memory” in the old tongue. Dwarrow nobles and scholars are all exposed to vast amounts of knowledge for the first ten years of their lives. Journals and Chronicles are read to babies as they sleep
Mycelia
Azul Fungus - was Blue Fungus
Viridian Fungus - Red Fungus is now GREEN
Lady Betheldut, guardian of the Sepulchre of the Scale, a Boggart
Crecain, Admiral -Lord Admiral O’Diouth Crecain III Commander of the Second Navy and Vice Chancellor of the Steeple College.
❤️ Evridiche ‘Evvy’ Iannos was Adieusur neMedusae,
She’s a sculptor
daughter of Sthenno, grand daughter of The Medusa
Eyes: Amber caramel
Archy first finds her in the old village of Kinemere
Evvy is flawed, and in love and kick Ass. She is a Kind person in a way that Indiana Jones never seems to be. she has an eight year old bay mare called Nance. Evvy ****grew up a Hellasian child in Destra. Hellas mythology as a second religion.
20 serpents (now 19) on her red-haired head. Cara dies
Terrified of water her brother hugo was staked out on a Hellan beach to drown as a heretic
Fear of enclosed spaces
Remove horses are frightened of Evvy
add her as a locksmith archer in Ch1 ( 1 sentence, nice and easy!) -The city guard of Bayard are suspicious of her statues ( victims) The Gift and the Gaze
Narreid Thragmeston Evvy’s lover, abandoned her at the altar to become Baron of Bermansea ( he stole Gospel of Gorgon mother of pearl book. One of the reasons Evvy has come to Bayard? is she hunting for the occult book? is this why she becomes an Investigator?
Lady Betheldut- Boggart gives her the emerald amulet, as a talisman from the Viridian Witch
Evvy’s power levels 1- 5
-By the end of Book 1 she gains a role in the Steeple College Academy as an Investigator -By Book2 she learns magic -Evvy becomes an Archmage Investigator by the end of book 6
Sthenno aka ViridianWitch - Evvy’s mum EVIL 😈
Descended from an Elohim - was a servant of the Wyrdsinger a wounded alfar - once she was a beautiful person then she got scarred by life. She abandoned her husband and daughter in a quest for power and meaning aka Mother Shipyarn, The Viridia Witch The Clathrus Queen(Clathrus archeri, Devil’s Fingers fungus)
Erinyes Medusae? - Evvy’s lovely moral grandmere Gorgon 😇 -Chapter 6 We learn Evvys grandmother was killed by Covey Assassins ?
Kirk Wyrdson -guardian of the Isle, dwarrow
Professor Eliza Feltzburg - Professor of Antiquities & Anthropology at the Swannaton Institute, human -Lady Betheldut - boggart
❤️ Deacon Shaw a Sufi monk who loves chess and game analogies - Covey
A worker of lesser magica - Seeming and animal speech
A Scrivener in the town of Bayard, writes letters for money
Head of the Covey Conclave - (Oliver.) Neurodiverse, Has trust and attention issues
he smells of classroom chalk and musk.
CF Ben ‘Toast ‘ Garpton . A covey monk.
Melusan a playwright who composes tragedies
Clathrus archeri
Dean Newthrall, a covey
“dwarrow teachings of Huracki, Osmunde and Tiathrenvall”
“red the dream teachings of Goralche”
Archy’s prophecy
“Your doom is at hand young one, yet there is still time to ride the storm, travel to the mouth of the silver mare and uncover what was stolen from the whiskered ones”
“Stone carver, you have abandoned your kinsmen, but have not been abandoned by them. The Learned college are not what they seem and wisdom will follow once you can see without sight.”
Archy will become a basalt dwarrow
“Begin with the fallen’ the last scribe said. ‘Reexamine all that went before and “who your allies really are.”
.A Insert he sees Evvy dead in a rockpool with a mother of pearl diary in her mouth
The Cerranir relic. A staff
“The staff of Cerrani contains the soul of a vengeful man called Adivari Genarr. Alive he was a deadly sorcerer. In life he murdered”
Races & Monsters
**Dwarrow
The Goralche a Western tribe who designed the Ixmoor segment of the Labyrinth. Archy’s father was one of them
-the Temple of Ophidia aka The Seraphic Cult aka ) is ruled over by his Eminence, the Empth, 39th Scion and Castellan of the Immortal corps. The priests are consecrated by consuming dust from relics (actually the bones of gorgons /monsters)
-A priest in the livery of **the Seraphic Cult **
**The Academy - Steeple College Academy **
Admiralty
The Arichay of Samirkana were a group of dwarrow who had abandoned the ways of the surface dwellers in pursuit of science, magic and martial prowess.
The Swannaton Institute.
League of Mystra Sthenno’s League (Guild) of Monsters
The Labyrinth, now a mycelial organism
Countries & Places
Destra
Bayard
-Bayard (Dartmouth ) A port with Tariearr (dutch ) influence, fishers, a naval college (the Academy) and great ice cream. Also of note:
The Chapel of Sains Gramond a temple of the Seraphic cult
The Sains Gramond market famous for occult and arcane books Evvy hunts here for the gorgon grimoire
Celstine chamber
Evvy’s studio house on Portview lane
Dukesweir was Kingswear
Rivermouth Castle
Cave Wine Sellers - Julian &Suzette +2 kids
Rosenstrasse Salon - Brothel
Weavers House
Chequered Pig Inn. Selky McBride, mermaid?
Further afield
The Dragon Tale Isle - A Dwarrow holt, a rural village in a river valley on an isle to the south +FastRabbitFarm-as-a-Dwarrow-Holt
Uthbeldur- a Dwarrow citadel
Prymouth - a Fungal Ettin found here
KayTor -(Torquay) home to whores, gamblers, playwrights and rich merchants den, French influence
Stown Was Totnes
Emerro city the capital city, where Archy lives
Heartley, 14 lycanthrope
Dressingham docks - 34 boggarts
Sandhaven a seaside town - where Evvy grew up
Yellriston was more tolerant
Bermansea is a Barony of lakes (lake District)
Thetmoor
Other countries
Kepress = Cyprus
Ferrus = France. Epanferrus = French “ newly imported books from Ferrus”
Flerence - Italy Flerencian Italian = 🇨🇮
Panierre =Spain Panrish = Spanish (to call a Panierre a basketcase is a term of abuse)
Tariearr - Holland Taritch = Dutch
Hellas - Greece Hellian = Greek 🇬🇷
Aegina Sophios
Aramanth - Arabia
History
300 years ago a potter and her husband had travelled from distant araby++ carrying a child and a long package wrapped in swaddling clothes. Legend said they were Eimaros of Araby and Marin of Athea. The child would grow to be the most talented sorceror the empire had ever seen and legends said Eimaros and Marin had founded the holy”
“You never saw the Eldar on the ground anymore. Ten years ago they had been common but since the Snake Incident++, they’d kept to their floating citadels and had wielded their tyrannical power through lesser fey and glamoured mortals.
200 years ago the Eldar empire had destroyed the magics of Destra. Like some unnatural leech they had sucked the life and magic out of the land and perverted the countryside into a wild hunting preserve so ferocious every town had to maintain thirty foot palisades to keep the Wilde out.”
50 years ago Evvy’s mother Sthenno
?? The Nation of Grandfathers, the AllFather’s Folk fled the world,
Miscellany
Nine pound wheelgun - a gun, it only becomes a cannon at 64 pounds
Months of the year
Masaskey - May?
Auout - August
Day’s of the week Sathsday → Sunday.
Constellations
Table and Anvil constellation’ just creeping over the line of the trees so she reasoned it was about seven o’clock.’
Languages -Wildetongue - spoken by those of the WIlde including Boggarts and the League of Mystra
The enemy is not the monster AI or the government, but rather our inability to engage. A magical miasmatic plague is fogging our minds worse than any of our traditional enemies. The solution is for our young sculptor and her guardian to find out who the real enemy is. It’s not the environment, its not the government its people who use technology without understanding the consequences. is it us?
It’s people who label the Folk as Monsters
Mycelial labyrinth. The Coveys and Dwarrow are Mycophelia, they love mushrooms Humans and Gorgons are Mycophobic Each labyrinth is a unique person, like the starswarm. The Ixmoor entity now occupies the labyrinth
“Selky was swabbing down muddy floor inside the Chequered Hog in Bayard.”
Book 2 Hook
It had taken her a while but she knew her head still dwelled on an altar in a deserted Alfar temple in the capitol
