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Taleev is a city in [[Iskander]] in the crux of the Brant and Swellbank rivers, where they become the Fullbrant. It has a population of 10,000, mostly humans. It is ruled by a council of elders, set into three tiers. The Upper Tier is composed of Orcish nobility. The middle tier comes from the ranks of the various mages, priests, doctors and lawyers in the city. The lower tier are tradesmen from the various guilds. Most of the middle and lower tier are human, though there are a few other races mingled in (most notably drahn). Each councilman has an equal vote in how the city is run, but in the event of a tie, the leader of the Upper Tier (known as the Chieftain) casts the deciding vote. Day-to-day operations are in charge of the Governor, which in Taleev is a hereditary position currently filled by [[Gurash Vandle]], Twenty-fourth Baron Taleev. Necromancy is widely studied in Taleev. The Drazai approach to magic (based on observation and experimentation) has been adopted there, allowing great leaps forward in practical use of the arts. They have learned to create cheap, strong undead called [[Drudges]], and while these have proven to be useless in combat, they are very useful in manual labor. Legally, only condemned criminals can be used to create drudges. Practically speaking, any dead body the necromancers can get their hands on is fair game. Gangs of [[Resurrectionists]] have cropped up in recent years, snatching bodies from the graveyards and private vaults of the city. There are even rumors of resurrectionists ambushing and killing people for their bodies. The resurrectionists are sometimes derogatively called Diggers by other criminals, but rarely to their faces. They also procure legal bodies for necromancers at executions, fighting tooth and nail against the families and friends of the bereaved who wish to give them a proper burial. Some gangs of resurrectionists have grown extremely powerful. The strongest, known as the Angel Street Parsons, is run by a shadowy figure known as [[Master Dule]]. [[Category:Skybreak]][[Category:Footprints]][[Category:Cities]]
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