Archive for September, 2025
In the Longhall of Hellvegen
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
Teletus
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
Teletus: The largest of the central “exchange islands,” governed not by civil authorities but rather according to merchant law. A free port allied to no city or Ubarate.
Curious Slave – Oasis of Lame Kaiila
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
A slave curiously observes the Kaiila in the stable of the Oasis of Lame Kailla.
Treve and the Village of Minus
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
A warlike city, famed for its flocks of wild tarns, lying about 700 pasangs North of Ar, towards the Sardar.
The mountain stronghold can only be reached by tarnback. It has no agriculture, and each year, legions of tarnsmen emerge from the Voltai falling on the fields of one city or another, different cities in different years, harvesting what they need and burning the rest in order that a long retaliatory winter campaign can not be launched against them. Because of the protection provided by the rocky crags and high mountains, there has never been a serious threat to Treve’s Home Stone.
Treve is a city rich in plunder, as lofty, inaccessible, and impregnable as a tarn’s nest. It is known as the “Tarn of the Voltai” and is an arrogant, never conquered citadel. A stronghold of men whose way of life is banditry, whose women live on the spoils of a hundred cities. Chief among its defenses are the vast legions of tarnsmen, riding the wild tarns found in this land. The wild tarns of Treve are larger and much stronger than tarns bred in captivity, and are widely regarded as the best fighting tarns on Gor.
There are two main sources of revenue for Treve: training wild war tarns and the mercenary use of Treve’s vast forces to neighboring cities. For this reason, the city government continues to be ruled by an Ubar, as a state of war exists almost continuously. The neighboring cities pay vast sums of gold tarn disks to buy protection, but in reality, they pay to keep Treve from attacking them. Treve does not attack three cities because of their defenses…these cities being Ar, Ko-ro-ba, and Thentis.
The tarn flocks of Treve, and the skill of its Tarnsmen, are known as the best on Gor, comparable perhaps only to those of Thentis. It is on tarnback that the men of Treve plunder Cities and make away with the gold and the goods their lofty lifestyle requires, as well as the women of ennemies, brought back to Treve, hooded and bound across saddles, soon to meet the kiss of the iron.
Imperial Ar is reborn!
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
First impressions from Imperial Ar IV.
(Psychee writes: “led by the same team as Imperial Ar III and Imperial Ar I (including Dyce Boucher and Syndel Daviau”).