Festival

Festival is basically a huge timber pier in the Lyme River, built around a squat grey hill. It is a metropolis of wererats, a place of lies, hiding lycanthropy that has become a plague here. This is a place ruled by the Rat Queen — a vast creature that dwells in a sunken palace made by the designer of the Royal Palace itself. The Queen is terrible, an abomination in form and deed.
Covering twelve score acres, it rises some two hundred feet through steep streets called the Skew, to the Great Fayre at the summit. The streets rise steeply between shambles of buildings built upon buildings, each bolted to the last, giving the place a spastic look and a feeling of imminent collapse. Timbers groan and creek, bolts occasionally explode, and evidence of shoring up and repair is everywhere.
Whatever you define as pleasure is available here, from simple tumbling clowns to sinister dark places where nightmares are drawn out of madmen and given breath and lust. The Family, wererat children of the Rat Queen, run the Great Fayre and the island it stands upon. The Family regard themselves as brothers and sisters, although even the closest families have their squabbles, particularly amongst the three ruling arms of the Family: the Frynn, the Grasts and the Scathels.

Location under

The Great Lyme

Included Locations

• The Crimson Lantern

Characters in Location

• Maria Grast

Related Reports (Primary)

• All the fun of the Fayre Report