WHAT IS INFINITE ? THE UNIVERSE.
DO YOU DARE ENTER? The lions den, the screaming as a man in the distance pays the price for a gamble he’d lost. There’s blood soaked streets that one can never seem to wash clean, the same can be said for their palms. A bustling hub for nothing more than the illicit, albeit necessary, activities that put more kruge in ones pocket than one could ever fathom. Ketterdam has done nothing but paint itself as a land of debauchery and hedonism. Behind every veil, around every corner, there was something to be said about the shadows that swallowed the town whole. Where others saw nothing but its beauty, its divine obsession with wealth, some sought out the truth. The deeply seeded underbelly that hid in plain sight. For, what was the world if not fooled by the slight of hands, if not lured into brothels by the promise of lust and desire. Alleys and closes reek with the stench of death, for men found themselves on their knees, begging for forgiveness in the dead of night before a blade was sure to meet their throat. A common courtesy it was to be thrown in the ocean, to be tied to a barrel and lost at sea rather than to face the likes of half the men in town. For, if there was one thing someone ought to know about Ketterdam, it was that there was simply no such thing as a good man, a moral man, or a righteous one. Men and women within Ketterdam had clawed their ways out of early graves, dirt caked beneath fingernails and skin steeped in sin if only to rise again, born once more, into the gutter that was the city.
A gun goes off in the middle of the night. There is no screams to be heard, only the steady silence that comes with the water surrounding those by the harbour. Traitors are shown no mercy, they whisper. An eye for an eye, others add in as the moon almost causes the night to seem most serene. A man shoots a gun and the world stands still if only for a moment as smoke arises, as the ashes of another betrayal will surely keep them warm in the middle of a cold evening. A gun goes off, a man is murdered, and a dead king rises from the ashes.
THE GREED OF MEN.
CROOKED KINGDOM is an alternate universe literate roleplay based on the works of Leigh Bardugo. inspired heavily by the Six of Crows duology as well as the Grisha trilogy. Our story is set in Ketterdam, a trading hub known for its gang activity and its tourist attractions. We see only what we want to, only what they allow us to. Whether that be parties with splendour, grandiose exhibits of wealth and power. Or, perhaps, to those who pay closer attention, it’s the blood curtailing screams that echo from deep within the gambling dens, the cries for help that erupt from within the brothels as if to say save me. Everyone has a price, some pay for silence and others pay for their lives. Gangs rule the cobblestone streets and the dimly lit alley ways. The town likes to believe that the gods are dead, that magic is something of a curse. However, there is a reckoning that is sure to come to a head, and when it does, no one will remain unscathed.
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