Hunting Grounds

The Hunting Grounds are the Ducal Game Preserve in the Duchy of Goldengate.

Overview

Just below the east face of Telegraph Hill, the Hunting Grounds are where nobles of Duke Aeon’s court go to slay dragons. Well, perhaps not dragons, but all other kinds of chimeric beasts lurk in the tumbled stone beneath the teetering homes of the wealthy. Monsters from Under the Bed, gone feral since the beds they lurked under vanished, skulk behind weeds and under piles of broken rock, extending their long arms to catch unwary changelings. Imaginary Friends, seduced and abandoned by their long-gone Kithain companions, form gangs of vengeful chimera who seek to take their vengeance out on any intruders. Other, less identifiable beasts lurk here as well. Here is where the abandoned chimera of San Francisco come to seek solace, and here is where the nobles come to hunt them. Sir Cumulus is the current Warden of the Ducal Game Preserve, and his duties as such consist primarily of making certain that none of the hunters become themselves the hunted. There have been numerous fatalities in chimeric combat, and to be counted among those fallen here has become almost a token of perverse pride. Lately, commoners have taken to sneaking into the Ducal Preserve, bagging a few chimera, and then strolling out. This drives Sir Cumulus positively apoplectic, and as much at the thought of the Preserve being emptied while his responsibility as out of concern for the daring poachers who intrude upon his tiny fief.

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