Castle Balindre

About four and a half centuries ago, an Impilturan merchant named Windyn Balindre founded the city of Telflamm. He had a vision of a gateway to the east, and he invested all of his prodigious fortune and business savvy into making that dream a reality. The Royal Company of Shou-Lung, Balindre's company, pioneered the endless miles of the Golden Way and established a chain of outposts along its length. Balindre declared himself Merchant Prince, a title of respect he hoped would impress his business partners in Kara-Tur.
When Balindre died, he passed his royal chanter and his assumed title to his son. Each heir to the house of Balindre had taken on this mantle until the citizens became suspicious of the Shadowmaster's influence and staged a coup to supplant Wendren Balindre with the war hero Cheng Takashi. Today, "Duke" Enji Takashi rules over the city from the castle, a fortified building right on the waterfront that has been so important to Telflamm's fortunes oven the years. While the Balindre's were puppets of the Shadowmasters, the Takashi's made their opinion of thieves abundantly clear by declaring war on the thieves guild. Under their influence the citizens of Telflamm and the City Watch defaced the temple to Mask, know as the House of the Master's Shadow, and ran the thieves out of the city.
Overall the citizens have been pleased with the Takashi's rule, however, of late there have been disappearances and mysterious deaths in the city. Ones that Enji Takashi has done little to absolve. Instead he sits in his castle holding counsel on a war against an invisible adversary.

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Castle