what lies below the marsh?

⌖ A Faustian Bargain
→ G'buro's temple is littered with lost tomes and ancient texts piled in waterlogged hoards like rubbish. A follower of Mora, his knowledge and foresight in the dark arts is said to be prolific. If there is something unsavory you need to learn or find, he is your Sload. Be careful, for those who know of his existence caution him as a last resort. When the terms are vague, the price is steep. And your soul may end up in a predicament you'd never have imagined.⌖ G'buro's Criminal Empire
→ Perhaps most curiously, G'buro aims to proliferate skooma to the north in Morrowind and to the west in Cyrodiil. He has made strategic pacts with the smugglers of Elsweyr who traffic moon sugar to the marsh, and bargains with a band of unscrupulous Telvanni who see his product distributed through the waterways of Deshaan and beyond. His strain is particularly deadly, said to carry magically addictive properties.⌖ Shepherd of the Misbegotten
→ Vampires, vermin, vandals, and vagrants. If you're a pariah, chances are G'buro may try to convince you that you have more in common with him than you do the surface dwellers. G'buro is friend to the common foe, often seeking to strike illicit pacts and bargains with covens, traffickers, witches and more.⌖ Ambitious Apprentices
→ Looking for a tutor in the dark arts? G'buro is a master at his craft, but he is no generous master. Everything is transactional. You want to learn something sordid? Best be ready to get your hands dirty and fetch a foul reagent.

THE SAXHLEEL SAY SOMETHING STIRS beneath the marsh. Something foul. Something ancient. Something evil.Many claim it's the superstitious tales of backward hunter-gatherers, or fearful stories meant to frighten hatchlings into obedience. But when the swamp starts to burp rosy plumes of skooma and an entire tribe disappears overnight, it warrants a closer look.TEN LEAGUES BENEATH THE SEA, sequestered away in a sunken Sithian ziggurat defiled and retrofitted into a bohemian freakshow of morbid spectacles and carnal delights, rules the self-styled Black Baron of the Marsh, G'BURO OF N'GAVLYAK. Friend of the misfortunate, father of zombies, shepherd of the misbegotten, and patron of the persecuted, G'buro has created a secret sanctuary for debaucherous degenerates and malformed miscreants whom he regards as his friends and children.In G'buro's court, nefarious necromancers and villainous vampires walk among sordid sorcerers, slavers, shambling aberrations, and dastardly daedra, tended to by a cadre of zealous zombies who are often slaving away in vast alchemical laboratories that produce a thousand of kilos of skooma a month.Nobody knows how G'buro got here. Nobody knows what his motives are. What they do know is this: he is a mercurial mogul with deranged tendencies and cruel humor, who will stop at nothing to ruthlessly expand his skooma empire. His actions are inextricably linked to the planes of Oblivion, where he offers the souls and suffering, bit by bit, to a dark pantheon of Sloadic gods, two of whom are rumored to be grotesque interpretations of Molag Bal and Hermaeus Mora.

about the author

I’ve been roleplaying for most of my life — not as a dungeon master, but as a storyteller. I enjoy building grounded, immersive, and collaborative plots with like-minded people who treat roleplay as more than a DND session or second life. That is not to disparage those enjoy that like kind of stuff, it just isn’t my thing.My writing has a tendency to be very grimdark and dystopian, with a deep focus on immersion and world building. My goal is to make the setting feel lived-in and appropriately scaled, with themes that often serve as allegories for real-world injustice while still appropriate for the setting; like crooked politics, religious persecution, indigenous exploitation, and class conflict. Beyond real life allegories, I also embrace what makes Dunmer culture so different by exemplifying their bizarre, unexplainable customs, beliefs, and traditions that make this corner of the universe so rich and unique.Needless to say, the roleplay I like isn’t for the faint of heart. I don’t shy away from real, raw, and overwhelmingly adult elements. You’ll find everything from murder and torture, to debauched hedonism, drug trafficking and addiction, cult ritualism, and more. The idea is not to assault people with shock value. It’s to create a lived-in, interactive experience that’s feels almost too real. I prefer even basic “slice of life” to have context, reason, and meaning.I gravitate toward writing flawed antagonists — monsters of society and circumstance. Characters shaped by the systems they try to claw to the top of or seek to break. They don’t exist to dunk on people nor be dunked on, but to be catalysts of conflict and drama. To present others with character-defining moments through hard choices they’re forced to make.Though their ambitions may be lofty, know that any goals whose completion would be lore-breaking exist to be foiled.

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