Slavewall

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 22:27:00 -0700

Mike Dawson:

>Anyone know of available source material on Slave Wall in Tarsh, circa
>1618-19?

Best source is UW#1: Tarsh in Flames. The following is a description of the city:

         A grim trading town at the edge of the Kingdom and the
         capital of the Mellmuri tribe.  Rebuilt after the devastation
         of 1490 as a fortified station, it is not only a huge slave
         market dealing in captives from as far as Balazar and Prax
         (and, truth to tell, many actually taken by the Exiles), but
         this is still the city's main claim to fame.  Its Great
         Redoubt is known as the Bastion of Tears, after the plaints
         and lamentations of the captives driven on the way to the slave
         markets.  Suggestions that some end up on Aramite [Tusk Rider]
         altars are fiercely denied, but the Mellmuri did refuse to
         support Mutius Thrax's [Royal Marshal of Tarsh] invasion of
         the forest in 1616.
                 Unspoken Word p30

The local tribe are regarded as little more than bandits.

--Peter Metcalfe

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