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Quaint was a high walled city-state located on the shore of a peninsula far from its neighbors. Until recently it had been ruled by the vicious and corrupt King Necrotus the Nihile. Now his body was one of the corpses that hung upside-down on the city's inland wall. The royal palace featured a long colonnade lined with glass lidded coffins displaying the agonized expressions of those citizens who had died in healthy prescribed manners. It also contained a room-sized mechanism designed by the king to exercise his muscles and joints for hours at a time.

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  • Quaint was a high walled city-state located on the shore of a peninsula far from its neighbors. Until recently it had been ruled by the vicious and corrupt King Necrotus the Nihile. Now his body was one of the corpses that hung upside-down on the city's inland wall. The royal palace featured a long colonnade lined with glass lidded coffins displaying the agonized expressions of those citizens who had died in healthy prescribed manners. It also contained a room-sized mechanism designed by the king to exercise his muscles and joints for hours at a time.
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  • Quaint was a high walled city-state located on the shore of a peninsula far from its neighbors. Until recently it had been ruled by the vicious and corrupt King Necrotus the Nihile. Now his body was one of the corpses that hung upside-down on the city's inland wall. Quaint's new ruler was Necrotus' brother, King Macrotus the Overwhelmingly Considerate. Macrotus was obsessed with health and purity and so made worship of the Lady of Beneficence the state's sole legal religion. He banished the court's mages and raised and an army of Well Knights whose purpose was to enforce volumes of new prohibitions covering all aspects of life designed to promote the populace's health. All vices were forbidden, diets were made vegetarian, exercise was mandatory, public displays of emotion were prohibited, babies were not allowed to disturb the peace with their cries, and so on. Every citizen's duty was to die healthy. Those that failed had their corpses hung upside-down from the city walls. The royal palace featured a long colonnade lined with glass lidded coffins displaying the agonized expressions of those citizens who had died in healthy prescribed manners. It also contained a room-sized mechanism designed by the king to exercise his muscles and joints for hours at a time. The city's religious life centered around the Grand Temple of the Lady, who was said to dwell in a pit at its center. Its formal front entrance featured a blockish altar sitting atop a raised platform from whence the Lady's voice could periodically be heard making pronouncements. Its operations were run by veiled nuns and priestesses.
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