Kyllikki: The Town of White-Harbor

Pohjola

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Kyllikki or White Harbor lies at the mouth of the Tuonela river as it pours into the Darkling Sea. The town is surrounded by a forty foot tall defensive wall of ice. The town is home to many traders, fishermen, craftsmen and the Temple of Ahto, God of the Sea. On an island in the bay to the west of Kyllikki is a light-house formed entirely from ice.

Seasons & Celebrations

The lands of Pohjola has four seasons: Allbright (Summer), Lightfall (Autumn), Darkover (Winter) and Newlight (Spring).

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Geography

The town sits in a huge crescent shaped carved from the sandstone and ice of the surrounding plateau. The river flows out a steep fall, to flow gently to the sea over the next four miles. The sea has flowed into this valley many times in the past, and the majority of the surface dirt here is silt and sand. There once were hardy trees growing here, but the town has long since logged all of them off for wood.

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Landmarks

The Harbor

The Harbor of Kyllikki is mostly round and then slowly widens beyond the confines of the town. If you were to imagine its shape, it would look just like an upside-down skeleton-key-hole, nearly round at the bottom (to the east) and slowly widening out the further west one travels.

At this time of year, the beginning of the Darkover season, the harbor is already frozen over with several inches of new ice, but as the season progresses the ice will become steadily thicker and deeper.

The freezing of the harbor during the subzero temperatures of the Darkover season forces the beaching of all sea-going craft which lay upon the sandy shore like dying whales until the warmth of the Newlight season makes travel once again possible.

Due to the beaching of all ocean-going craft, the town is swarming with sailors and ship's crews looking for easy companionship, a bit of excitement and plenty to drink. The seamen are in luck for it is the last hours of the season of Lightfall and the beginning of Darkover and during this transitional time of twilight the entire town celebrates the Feast of the Comet which will last until the last light of twilight has died.

The harbor has three islands, the closest of which is the Pyhä Kivi or Holy Stone upon which is located the temple complex of Ahto. Holy Stone lies in the center of the Inner Harbor which is almost round and is the closest island to the city and central to the success of Kyllikki.

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The Wall

The wall was once the remnants of a great glacier that inhabited the plain. Generations of work have cut a gouge in the ice, allowing for steep, impossible to climb ice walls in a semi circle around the town. The only gate in the wall is the Dragon Gate. It is 40' wide, 25' tall. Heavy beams form it, and it is constantly manned, due to threats from off the steppe.

There are nine evenly spaced towers carved into the ice. The tops are covered in beams, with arrow slits cut in them. Wooden ladders go from the floor to the top.

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Temple of Ahto

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Lighthouse

The Lighthouse of Kyllikki is located a mile offshore and guards the Bay. The lighthouse was built entirely of massive blocks of sea ice and mortared together with snow over a thousand years ago, its creation was a feat of ancient engineering that is now lost and it serves as a beacon of both commerce and safety offered by the town of White Harbor to all those in need.

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Inns and Pubs

Timanttitalo

Timanttitalo {Ti-mantti-talo} or Diamond House is White-Harbor's finest inn. Built with leftover blocks of ice carved from the same glacial ice that forms the town's wall, Timanttitalo is a treat for wealthy merchants, ship's captains and others who can afford it.

Valkoinen Pata

The White Cauldron as this hostel is otherwise known caters to Kyllikki's middle-class, craftsmen, tradesmen and serves as a favorite watering-hole for the local people.

Sininen Kaulus

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Sininen Kaulus or the Blue Collar is another of White-Harbor's hostels, but it serves as a last port of call for those seeking shelter from the cold, the darkness, desperation and even death. It has all the regular fixtures found in association with poverty, the drug addicted and mentally ill, those on the run from the law, perverts looking to score a thrill and other things stranger still. Those who choose to become patrons of the Blue Collar are draw inwards from the periphery of the hostel towards its center along labyrinthine halls illuminated by a azure lattice of fretwork. One thing that sets this hostel apart from all the others in the city is the security it offers its clientele, every room has a locked door and every door's lock is different, there are no duplications. As the hostel closest to the harbor, the Sininen Kaulus is a first stop for sailors and travelers who first come ashore, it is best known for its inexpensive rates and the lack of curiosity displayed by its staff.

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Private Residences

Naisopiskelijayhdistys

Pronunciation Guide {Nai-sopi-skeli-jayhd-ist-ys}

The Sorority or in this case the Sorority House is a private home in one of Kyllikki's nicer districts that admits young women as members of a private club. Led by the beautiful, charismatic and independent Eupraxia, the sorority offers a place of refuge to the young women of Kyllikki.

The sorority estate is located along North Beach, it consists of ten acres of land, half of it beach-front property and the other half is manicured grounds covered by winter grasses and evergreen trees and it is surrounded by a ten foot wall of ice.

The main-house is a study in opulence and wealth in that it is built of wood and stone rather than of native ice. The house is a two story A-frame with a central hall and two wings that from above would look like a capitalized H.

Most of the locals can only speculate upon what the young ladies of Kyllikki get up to while at the Sorority, but most of their theories would be incomplete or just wrong.

The little that is known about Eupraxia is that she is a foreign woman who arrived in Kyllikki after the ship she was traveling on sank leaving her the sole survivor.

Eupraxia is tall for a woman, taller than most men in Kyllikki and she both wealthy and well educated. She speaks the local language with great fluency for one who has only resided in Kyllikki for the last ten years.

The sorority is surprisingly egalitarian, young women without means are permitted to join provided that they take on household duties like: cleaning, cooking and security.

While young women of means are expected to better the sorority's social standing in Kyllikki society.

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People of Interest

Citizens of the Town

• -- Master Holg -- Harbor Master
• -- Poodin Head -- An excommunicated Arvin Parahj who begs for money in the city.
• -- Aspis Tardon -- Town witch and purveyor of charms, amulets, and magic.
• -- Laideral Brugh (Lay-DER-all Brue) -- Elder of Kylikki. He is Elder of the Festival, and one of the Touched.
• -- Gaevin Ur-Brugh (Gay-VIN ur-Brue)
• -- Varsta Zade -- Head of the thieves guild.

Gods

• Siobhán -- Celtic Goddess of Storms & Battles -- {Cathubodua}
• Mors -- Lady of Death -- {Sulis}
• Morpheus -- God of Dreams
• Cercyon -- Divine Smith -- {Sucellus}

Visitors

• -- Galchobhar -- Recent companion to Morpheus

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Law and Order

The town has one law enforcement officer during the day. Breixo Xaime is active during the day, he has three other watch members on duty most of the night.

• -- Breixo Xaime -- Captian of the Watch

Sandguard

The Sandguard are a three person night watch to make sure there are no fires out of control. The Sandguard's primary responsibility is putting out fires, but in the arctic weather of the Frostfell water-brigades are impractical to say the least. Sand on the other hand is readily available in White Harbor and is easy to have on hand throughout the town in case a fire becomes a possibility.

• -- Teresa Järvi -- First Sandguard
• -- Lina Rantanen -- Sandguard in Training
• -- Iiris Nikula -- Sandguard in Training

Soundtracks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcoLjDXXAeI&list=RDMMLi0jpfysBSI&index=7

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