Setting
The capital city of The Sapphire Desert is known as We'Darastri, but is more commonly shortened to Daras. It is the only capital city in The Sapphire Desert that also serves as the land's primary port city. Because of this, it is very heavily defended by the Sapphire Navy and magical wards alike. Simply being allowed to dock at We'Darastri takes three days, as any incoming ships are inspected thoroughly. We'Darastri is a fantastical setting, full of spiraling towers and arcane wonders of architecture. The city is full of magical amenities, and is heavily policed by an elite guard known as The Azure Guardians.
It is divided into three primary sections, the middle, high, and low cities. The middle city makes up much of We'Darastri, and is home to the middle and lower classes, full of shops, homes, inns, and so forth. The high city is a walled section of We'Darastri that houses all of the city's aristocracy, and is also serves as a stronghold. Finally, the lower city is a series of ancient sandstone catacombs that run underneath We'Darastri in a frenetic spread. Most of these catacombs have been converted to sewers, but there are still a few unaltered ones that play host to the city's large undead or light-sensitive population.
The only other real city worth noting in The Sapphire Empire is not so much a city as it is a large living area built around The Azure Citadel, the home of The Sapphire Empire's ruler. It is an academic community that focuses less on history and geography and moreso on the mysteries of magic. The Azure Citadel serves both as a palace as well as a college for aspiring wizards and sorcerers, the most prestigious in all of Gaia
It is divided into three primary sections, the middle, high, and low cities. The middle city makes up much of We'Darastri, and is home to the middle and lower classes, full of shops, homes, inns, and so forth. The high city is a walled section of We'Darastri that houses all of the city's aristocracy, and is also serves as a stronghold. Finally, the lower city is a series of ancient sandstone catacombs that run underneath We'Darastri in a frenetic spread. Most of these catacombs have been converted to sewers, but there are still a few unaltered ones that play host to the city's large undead or light-sensitive population.
The only other real city worth noting in The Sapphire Empire is not so much a city as it is a large living area built around The Azure Citadel, the home of The Sapphire Empire's ruler. It is an academic community that focuses less on history and geography and moreso on the mysteries of magic. The Azure Citadel serves both as a palace as well as a college for aspiring wizards and sorcerers, the most prestigious in all of Gaia
We'Darastri
The busy street traffic of We'Darastri bustles past, with exotic smells filling the air accompanying distant cracks of thunder and arcane power...
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We'Darastri is a part of 
The Sapphire Desert.
3 Places in We'Darastri:
9 Characters Here
Jeanella Lefloure [388] "Come closer....I dont bite too much. Just a bit off the top"
TDM [351] "3.5 for life."
Darien Hardwolf [294] Darien is a follower of Heironeous
Mythos [92] "That which is not dead may eternal lie, and with strange aeons, even death may die..."
Smoke Arbok [0]
Astarot [0]
Deth'Maitherlian [0] Fighter
Syvina [0]
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"Actually no twit. Bring a fucking torch" She called back through a whisper, trying to make out anything that would indicate any kind of target
"Heironeous knows your going to need one for being an idiot and thinking you could see in that kind of dark." Darien reached into his personal belongings and pulled out a torch just to light it and 'illuminate' the situation for the poor half elf. Slowly Darien made his way behind her only to shake his head. "Now look who has their hands full."
The torch would provide a nice flickering thirty foot radius of light for Darien and a sixty foot radius for Jeanella. Looking at the floor, the half elf noticed a slight scintillation on the ground that struck her as odd. Crouching down, and upon closer inspection, revealing a light pad print of some kind in the mire that encrusted the floor. Getting an idea for what was ahead, the murderess picked up on a new, very unique odor in the air; wet dog. Not too quick to assume she was wrong, she'd bet copper to platinum that there were Gnolls in here. Bestial, hyena-like monstrous humanoids valuable only for their pliant minds and brutal strength...
She growled and spat on the ground "Shit..." She said and continued onward "Maybe they will get a mortal blow to this moron...the damn torch is giving me away" She said and moved slowly with an arrow still knocked on the string
"Right I am the moron here. Would you like the light or not as I could easily leave you here in the dark." Darien said.
"Yeah smart move dipshit..." She said and crept along before stopping "Fine...there are Gnolls in here. They can see us in the pitch black. But for that advantage, they are dumb as dirt and we should be seeing some soon" She said and motioned forward "Men first...I want to be somewhat hidden to get off a sneak attack. Hey and they might chop you up into bits and I can get out of here. Theirs a thought"
"Were would you go?" Darien asked his question to her final comment as he was still trying to get it into her thick skull that they would just find her and capture her. The paladin made his way to the front only to slowly move down the pipe keeping his eyes peeled for anything to appear before him. "You have to realize that if you were so easily found they will find you again."
As the words scarcely left the Paladin's mouth, he would pick up on the slight sound of doggish breathing at the end of the hall and whip around to spot the shadowy outline of a hunched, furred form beginning to round the corner. Before the gnoll's eyes so much as flashed in the darkness, Darien and Jeanella were upon it, prepared to relieve some heavily built anxiety...
Darien Hardwolf quickly drops the torch and draws his sword(as a free action) and begins to charge the gnoll quickly closing the gap.
As the Paladin closed the gap with righteous determination, the gnoll raised his crude battleaxe and slashed downwards, but the retaliation was, alas, to early, leaving the beat open to Darien's attack.
Darien Hardwolf brought his blade down upon the gnoll only to smirk as he readied himself for the beast. "Dog you shall meet your end!"
Jeanella draws back on her bow and looked up at the roof for a second then at the Gnoll "If this arrow hits either of them...Ill pray for once" She said and aimed for the Gnoll's chest and released the arrow at it
The arrow whistled down the hall even while the Paladin still brought his sword to bear for either defense or attack, but before another breath passed, the Gnoll was gifted a sweet release from pain via the quivering arrow now plunged deep into his matted forehead. There was the slightest of pauses before the bestial humanoid fell to the festering ground with a grunting thud...
When we last left our begrudging heroes, they found themselves mired in the unpleasant underbelly of the city's destitute pocket of the magically inept. Given what was originally a seemingly mundane task, Darien the Paladin and Jeanella the Huntress have found themselves heading into the heart of a Gnoll lair, presumably the cause of the Gnome tenement's lack of running water. The two heroes had just drawn their first blood, and the carcass of the stinking beast lay at Darien's feet...
Darien Hardwolf knelled down beside the gnoll to get a closer look at the beast and see if there was anything on it that looks like it had any use only to offer a small prayer for a victorious battle that Heironeous blessed him with and then began to regret kneeling in the muck of the pipe they were in. "There must be more of them up ahead."
She grimaced and moved to inspect her kill, growling a little and spat on the corpse "Thats why you are the fucking Sword sponge" She said and bent down slowly to attempt to retrieve her arrow "Im gonna need every shot I can get if I have to cover your ass"
Aside from the Gnoll's tattered and rusting battle gear, there was not much of use on the carcass. Luckily, despite having gone through the Gnoll's thick forehead, the arrow was still good for another shot. The two heroes now found themselves just in front of the corner turning right, deeper into the sewer...
"Shut your mouth harlot." Darien was growing rather impatient with the mouth on this woman only to then take a deep breath and went back to retrieve his torch just so that he and the murderer had some light to see. "I am starting to wish they had just banished you."
"You know...I am thinking the exact same thing right about now. Come on, lets be done with this so we can say our goodbyes" She said and looked around the tunnel, crouching low with the same arrow knocked on her string "Lead the way Sword Sponge"
"My pleasure." Darien once again had shield and torch in hand as he continued to make his way down the hall only to shake his head. "I do not think youl understand the severity of your crime."
About 25 feet into the passage way around the corner stood an old, rusty portcullis, that appeared to be quite securely locked. Beyond that, the Paladin would have trouble seeing anything further down the hall in detail, but Jeanella would be able to make out some kind of crude, soggy gang flag hanging at the far end of this new hallway that ended in some sort of T junction...