Akonris Workhouses

The Arkonis (Ar-Kon-Ris) Workhouses are home to underpaid, underfed, and overworked men who look thinner than paper. They are marked workers who are like a separate village far from Liane. Though life is rough, they learn to have fun in rather simplistic ways such as betting whatever gems and valuables they find in games of Charcham (Char-Cham), a game where they throw a dozen rocks on a large plot of small circles whilst blindfolded (More on this within another page). The Arkonis Workhouses are a calmed and civilized place, but don’t be fooled - make even the smallest mistake and have the whole area turn on you. The Arkonis Workhouses are made of quite well made wooden houses, but some issues are clear: The lack of plants and real life within the area. While the area is wide open and occupied by many houses, the workers are severely outnumbered by the buildings. Maybe the place was built with the intention of holding more, but maybe they started to die off much faster than expected.

Each worker is unique on their own, but most of them look quite similar: Visible hair loss, dry skin, calluses on their fingers and feet, extremely malnourished and thin, normally shirtless, and wearing either heavily worked up shorts or a leather cloth wrapped around the waist in order to cover their privates. Each one of them are abnormally pale, and there’s a good mixture of dark-skinned people as well. One even more odd thing is that each one of them has a burn mark of a moon and star on their left side, just below their ribs, the same one as the ink marks on the cultists’ heads.

The air around the Arkonis Workhouses is stale and dry upon first breath. It’s plenty warmer than Liane itself - and has a lot less snow. Thin, paper-like areas of the place are covered in snow, and a small bit of ice. The workers were adapted to handle this cold, almost built for it. The dry and rock-filled dirt is exposed due to the lack of ice and snow, and is quite painful to walk on without protection. Lack of tress and even grass helps nail down the industrial reality in this area; and the many struggles the workers have on the outside and in.