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2. World Almanac/Regions of Baltun'ia/Jessergate/Voxiu/Sea Bastion Docks/Captain Rill Dross - Sea Bastion Docks.md

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+### Details:
+
+**Name**: Rill Dross, Dockmaster  
+**Race**: [[Half-Elves|Half-Elf]]  
+**Age**: 44  
+**Core personality**: Gruff, impatient, rules-driven “results first” personality.  
+**Location**: [[Voxiu]], [[Sea Bastion Docks]]
+
+---
+
+### Appearance:
+
+- **Build & Stature:** Tall, broad-shouldered, scarred forearms.
+- **Hair:** Cropped black streaked with silver.
+- **Eyes:** Hazel, squinting from years in salt-spray.
+- **Skin:** Sun-red, seamed with salt-weather cracks.
+- **Apparel:** Navigator’s long-coat, captain’s medallion.
+- **Distinguishing Features:** A broken nose that never healed straight.
+
+---
+
+### Voice & Speech:
+
+- **Tone & Pitch:** Deep gravel.
+- **Mannerisms:** Constantly clicks tongue, waves paperwork in irritation.
+
+---
+
+### Motivations & Goals:
+
+- **Primary motivation:** Keep docks moving at maximum efficiency.
+- **Fears / Dangers:** Strikes or dock sabotage disrupting trade.
+- **Personal Quests or Secrets:** Paid by [[Serpents Coil Overview|Serpent’s Coil]] to ignore certain contraband vessels.
+
+---
+
+### Background:
+
+- **Origin:** Voxiu native, illegitimate son of [[Elves|elven]] shipwright.
+- **History:** Worked up from runner to Dockmaster through ruthless enforcement.
+- **Current Occupation:** Oversees all shipments into Sea Bastion harbor.
+
+---
+
+### Associations:
+
+- **Allegiances & Factions:** Strong [[Vexen Overview|Vexen]] bias; tolerated by Serpent’s Coil.
+- **Allies & Friends:** Mizrah Veer’s smuggling agents.
+- **Rivals & Enemies:** [[Belter Overview|Belter]] dock agitators ([[Kal Branth - Sea Bastion Docks|Kal Branth]]).
+
+---
+
+### Notes & Flavor
+
+- Nicknamed “Red Rill” by sailors for brutal punishment of slackers.

2. World Almanac/Regions of Baltun'ia/Jessergate/Voxiu/Sea Bastion Docks/Kal Branth - Sea Bastion Docks.md

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+### Details:
+
+**Name**: Kal Branth, Unionist Fishmonger  
+**Race**: [[Dwarves|Dwarf]]  
+**Age**: 133  
+**Core personality**: Charismatic, righteous, stubbornly [[Belter Overview|Belter]]-aligned.  
+**Location**: [[Voxiu]], [[Sea Bastion Docks]]
+
+---
+
+### Appearance:
+
+- **Build & Stature:** Stocky, burly with forearms like stone.
+- **Hair:** Wild auburn, streaked white.
+- **Eyes:** Sharp gray, often smiling or burning with passion.
+- **Skin:** Salt-tanned, wrinkled around eyes.
+- **Apparel:** Apron etched by years of blood, salt, and scales.
+- **Distinguishing Features:** Fish tattoo along left arm.
+
+---
+
+### Voice & Speech:
+
+- **Tone & Pitch:** Loud, booming, rally-voice.
+- **Mannerisms:** Gestures with knives and fish-hooks unconsciously.
+
+---
+
+### Motivations & Goals:
+
+- **Primary motivation:** Rally dockworkers & fishers into united Belter actions.
+- **Fears / Dangers:** [[Automatons]] making [[Humans|human]] dock hands obsolete.
+- **Personal Quests or Secrets:** Lost family working-class jobs to automaton cranes and hasn’t forgiven [[Vexen Overview|Vexens]].
+
+---
+
+### Background:
+
+- **Origin:** Born to a fisher’s clan, raised on Sea Bastion quays.
+- **History:** Shifted from fishmonger to agitator after automation introduced.
+- **Current Occupation:** Leads worker-agitators.
+
+---
+
+### Associations:
+
+- **Allegiances & Factions:** Strongly aligned to Belters.
+- **Allies & Friends:** [[Hedda Wickwhistle - Cotton Row Market|Hedda Wickwhistle]] (mutual worker-respect).
+- **Rivals & Enemies:** [[Captain Rill Dross - Sea Bastion Docks|Captain Rill Dross]], [[Serpents Coil Overview|Serpent’s Coil]] smugglers.
+
+---
+
+### Notes & Flavor
+
+- Known to start chants, often handing knives as “protest torches.”

2. World Almanac/Regions of Baltun'ia/Jessergate/Voxiu/Sea Bastion Docks/Sea Bastion Docks.md

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+### Type:
+
+Massive fortified harbor of [[Voxiu]], controlled largely by merchant elites and favored by the [[Vexen Overview|Vexens]] as their beating heart. Symbol of modernization, efficiency, and outsider influence.
+
+---
+
+### Description:
+
+Stone quarried long ago forms imposing seawalls, reinforced by iron cranes and belching gearworks. [[Automatons]] operate winches and unloading rigs with unsettling precision, lowering cargos from ships without pay or pause. The smell of brine mixes with coal-smoke and exotic spices as sailors from across the continent pour into taverns and warehouses. [[Belter Overview|Belters]] grumble onshore, glaring at machines that “stole” their unloading jobs. Guards in sharp uniforms march alongside gear-driven ballistae defending the walls.
+
+---
+
+### Lore & Role in Voxiu:
+
+- Voxiu is the **second-largest port in Western Baltun’ia** (20% of shipping) and a Vexen stronghold.
+- Imports are critical: campaign materials, Benton banking ties, political donations, smuggled contraband.
+- [[Serpents Coil Overview|Serpent’s Coil]] smugglers **absolutely** operate here from the shadows, leveraging contraband and leaning Vexen to protect their channels.
+
+---
+
+### Notable NPCs:
+
+- **[[Captain Rill Dross - Sea Bastion Docks|Captain Rill Dross]]**, Dockmaster _([[Half-Elves|Half-Elf]], scarred, impatient)_  
+    → Works openly with Vexen leadership, orders automaton unloading to maximize profits. Would happily bribe or bully PCs into silencing Belter interference.
+- **Mizra Veer’s Agent** (“Silkfang’s Collector”) _(Serpent’s Coil rep)_  
+    → Whisper-network contact, approaches party with “alternative jobs” running through the docks if they impress.
+- **[[Kal Branth - Sea Bastion Docks|Kal Branth]]**, Fishmonger and Unionist _([[Dwarves|Dwarf]])_  
+    → Belter agitator, distributing “dock papers” calling for strikes and protests.
+
+---
+
+### Plot Hooks / Seeds:
+
+- **Sabotage Choices:** PCs are offered coin to either protect an incoming Vexen shipment _or_ sabotage it for Belters. Which way they lean affects popularity.
+- **Smuggler’s Proposition:** A Serpent’s Coil operator approaches them with a side deal—“Lose this crate in the chaos, and we’ll owe you.” (PCs may not yet realize the broader factional tie-ins).
+- **Violence on the Water:** A rally flows from [[Cotton Row Market|Cotton Row]] into the Bastion, escalating into riot vs. automaton dockhands. PCs must pick sides, stop bloodshed, or let it burn.