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Belburn

Belburn illustrative location art
Illustrative location art based on campaign notes.

Summary

Belburn is a rocky, arid town outside the Dome, earthwise of the desert, whose people associate themselves with Bridged, freedom, and the greeting “free travel to all.” The town is connected to Goliath travellers, pan-based travel, and routes toward Lostvein, but remains under pressure from Envy’s lamia, which stole children and demanded goods. Its town hall stands above the buried dragon form of Lady Evalina Hartwall, and its Bridged temple and unusual self-service inn reflect Belburn’s distinctive culture.

Description

Belburn is rocky, arid, and earthwise of the desert, culturally tied to Bridged and freedom. Its people change professions frequently but follow intense rhythms around work and revelry. Notable local spaces include a town hall above the buried dragon form of Lady Evalina Hartwall, one of Envy’s enforcers, Bridged’s Belburn temple with high-quality ink and trick-offerings, and an unnamed inn or pub with no bar, self-serve barrels and bottles, coin bowls, haphazard foreign cloths, Cracker Jack ale, Frost Rime whiskey, and spiced rum.

Source: data/4-days-cleaned/day-59.md.

Known Details

  • Day 36 records Arik Belburn as a Bridged clergyman and identifies the town then recorded as Belburn.
  • The pre-Dome Browning map labels the place as Belburn, confirming the canonical spelling.
  • Day 47 includes a carved-door image of a Goliath figure with large men around a cracked burning bell; user clarification says this figure is possibly from Belburn.
  • Day 58 describes Belburners camped in Brass City’s Earthwise quarter; they greeted the party with “free travel to all” and said they came by “the winds of Bridge.”
  • Belburners remembered a party member fighting a dragon working for Lady Envy in their streets.
  • They knew Envy was at the jade mines called Lostvein, also recorded as Lost Vein / Lost Vain, but could not go there because Llamia stole children and extorted goods.
  • Brass City to Belburn was described as about five days by road around the plateaus and mountains near the Great Foot of the Flame Scar.
  • The party traded for a Belburn pan and eventually used pan-based travel to reach Belburn.
  • Day 59 describes Belburn as rocky, arid, earthwise of the desert, and culturally tied to Bridged and freedom. Its people change professions frequently but still follow intense town rhythms around work and revelry.
  • Belburn’s town hall sits above the buried dragon form of Lady Evalina Hartwall, one of Envy’s enforcers, though the party could not hear the rumbling locals describe.
  • Bridged’s Belburn temple sells high-quality ink, accepts offerings through tricks as well as coin, and expected the Bleak Stormers to bring more ink.
  • The unnamed Belburn inn or pub has no bar, self-serve drink barrels and bottles, coin bowls, and haphazard foreign cloths. Drinks included rough, live Cracker Jack ale; magically cold dwarven Frost Rime whiskey with mellow pineapple or cassis notes; and good spiced rum.
  • The party hired a wagon and three lizards, Slinky, Mr. Green, and Lizzy, from a female Goliath lizard-dealer for 80 gp including deposit.
  • Lord Bleakstorm is described at Bridged’s Belburn temple as eternal, tricksy, and close to Bridged.
  • Belburn is still under Envy’s pressure through “tithes” or “gifts,” and a kobold refugee family fleeing Lostvein was redirected there.

Open Questions

  • What is Belburn’s current political status after Envy’s lamia activity and the earlier dragon fight?
  • How reliable is pan-based travel to and from Belburn?
  • How does Lady Evalina Hartwall’s buried dragon form still affect Belburn, if at all?