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灰 悼 城
Graydirge



  白骨复盖的灰悼城是一座位于盖布中北部破碎山脉(the Shattered Range)东麓的偏远城市。这座古老而又冷酷的城市在千年来从未受到过重大的入侵或灾难,哪怕它远离像梅吉塔尔(Mechitar)和埃莱德(Yled; 读音 EH-lehd)这样的大型筑垒城市。这主要是因为这座城市那令人印象深刻的骨石工事,居住人口中数量可观的食尸鬼和死灵师,以及绵延数英里环城四周的由丧尸耕作的田地,它们为这座城市提供了自然——或者非自然的——屏障。
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Bone-shrouded Graydirge is a remote city located in the eastern foothills of the Shattered Range in north-central Geb. Ancient and grim, the city has remained free of significant invasions or disasters for thousands of years, despite its distance from larger fortified cities like Mechitar and Yled. This is largely due to the city’s impressive fortifications of bone and stone and its sizable population of ghouls and necromancers, as well as the zombie-tilled fields that surround it for miles in every direction and provide it a natural—or unnatural—barrier to any would-be invaders.
  灰悼城相对偏远的位置令它与盖布边境地区的城市政治绝缘。由于地处偏远,加之现代建筑材料的流入相对缓慢,城市难以扩展,这也使得人口保持相对稳定。灰悼城很少接待游客,除了那些有特殊原因的人之外,比如参观宗-库山(Zon-Kuthon)的神殿空无门槛(the Empty Threshold)的朝圣者、审核食物生产的赋生者(Reanimator)代表、研究骨灰瓮之城(ossuary-city)建设的建造者联盟(the Builders League)成员,或者其他进行政府公务的人。
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Graydirge’s relatively remote location insulates the city from the politics of cities in Geb’s border regions. Its remoteness and the difficulty of expanding the city, given the relatively slow influx of building materials in modern times, also serves to keep the population relatively stable. Graydirge receives few visitors except those with a specific reason to see the city, such as pilgrims visiting the Empty Threshold of Zon-Kuthon, representatives of the Reanimators auditing food production, members of the Builders League studying the ossuary-city’s construction, or others conducting official government business.
  老城区迷宫般的街道和狭窄的小巷为防止潜在的入侵者提供了额外的防御措施,来到这座城市的游客最好雇佣谨慎的向导,以免他们在不可避免地迷路时被当成外来者。这对生民(quick)来说尤其如此,除非他们受到一个强大的公民或派系广为人知的保护。
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The mazelike streets and narrow alleys of the old city provide additional defense against would-be invaders, and visitors to the city do well to hire discreet guides lest they stand out as outsiders when they inevitably become lost. This is especially true for the quick, unless they’re known to be under the protection of a powerful citizen or faction.


历史
History


  灰悼城曾是一座偏僻的军事哨所,用于拦截沿着破碎山脉(the Shattered Range)东侧入侵盖布的军队。盖布与其宿敌奈克斯(Nex)之间的战争致使其快速扩张。城市的建筑师最先决定用骸骨来建造城市的建筑和堡垒,只是因为这种材料十分丰富并且可以提供一种明显令人不安的外貌。最初出于便利的选择很快就成为了一种传统,然后成了一种受尊重的建筑风格。
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Graydirge once served as a remote military outpost positioned to intercept troops invading Geb along the eastern edge of the Shattered Range, rapidly expanding during the war between Geb and its rival Nex. The city’s architects first decided to use bones to construct the city’s buildings and fortifications simply because the material was so plentiful and provided an unmistakably disconcerting appearance. What began as a convenience quickly evolved into a tradition, then a respected architectural style.
  访问灰悼城的鲜血领主们(Blood Lords)对这些令人生畏的建筑印象深刻,并开始了另一项残酷的传统:将那些拒绝在死亡后为盖布服务的人送到灰悼城以作为惩罚,在那里他们的肉会被从他们的骨架上粗暴地剥下,既生产了建筑材料,又为盖布的食尸鬼们提供食物。历史上至少有一位富有的贵族提供了昂贵的资金,让死者在经历这痛苦的分离过程前复活,以确保这惩罚难以轻易避免。
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Blood Lords visiting Graydirge were impressed by the intimidating edifices and began another grim tradition: punishing those who refused to serve Geb in undeath by sending them to Graydirge, where their flesh would be violently stripped from their skeletons to produce both building materials and food for Geb’s ghoul population. History tells of at least one wealthy aristocrat who provided the exorbitant funds to have the dead resurrected before putting them through the excruciating rendering process, ensuring the punishment wasn’t easily avoided.
  自盖布-奈克斯战争停息后的数个世纪内,灰悼城几乎毫无变化。由于远离政治(包括国际事务和梅吉塔尔的鲜血领主间的自相残杀),这个城市没什么扩张或调整的理由。最显著的变化就是城市周围丧尸劳作的农场的稳步扩张,这与此国越来越依赖食品出口作为一个重要收入来源相吻合。除此以外,那些当权者就会满足于继续掌权,而那些生活在压迫他人的不死霸主脚下的生者则没有对城市未来的发言权。直到最近,随着盖布回到公众视线中,上级派系(the Great Factions)的阴谋才开始深入到灰悼城。
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Graydirge has changed little in the intervening centuries since the Nex-Geb War ground to a halt. Far removed from politics (both international affairs and the internecine strife between the Blood Lords in Mechitar), the city has had little reason to expand or adapt. The most significant change has been the steady expansion of the zombie-worked farms surrounding the city, coinciding with the nation’s increasing dependence on food exports as a significant source of income. Otherwise, those in power have been content to remain in power, while those living under the heel of their oppressive undead overlords have no voice in the city’s future. Only very recently, with Geb’s return to the public eye, have the Great Factions’ machinations begun to reach as far as Graydirge.


政府
Government


  灰悼城没有理事会、代表机构、议院、或其他决策小组,只有一个对所有市政决策拥有绝对权力的高阶总督。在实践中,高阶总督对政策的改变无能为力,它主要是作为现有法律的执行者。城市的行政人员由一个小圈子内的职能人员组成,它们由高阶总督任命(也可以由高阶总督罢免);不足为奇的是,这些人员都只是些在高阶总督面前卑躬屈膝以维持它们职位的马屁精。高阶总督从不是鲜血领主——相反,它们是由鲜血领主组成的秘密委员会任命的,而这些人又是通过未公开的方式选出来的。有些流言认为,任命委员会是随机选择的,而另一些则声称国师肯尼比(Chancellor Kemnebi)是这个任命灰悼城高阶总督的“团体”中唯一的成员。无论用什么方法,高阶总督都不知道是谁让它们上台的。因此,它们从来不知道哪些鲜血领主,或者进一步延伸到哪些上位派系,有权将它们赶下台。这样的安排可以防止灰悼城的最高长官越轨,比如干涉粮食生产,过快地改变当地法律,或者在这片远离梅吉塔尔(Mechitar)的灰色荒原上密谋反对鲜血领主。
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Graydirge has no councils, representative bodies, senates, or other decision-making groups, just a single high governor with absolute authority over all municipal decisions. In practice, the high governor can do little to enact changes in policy and serves mostly as the enforcer of existing laws. The city’s civic administrators comprise a small coterie of functionaries that are appointed by (and can be removed by) this high governor; unsurprisingly, all of them are mere toadies who grovel before the high governor to maintain their sinecures. The high governor is never a Blood Lord—rather, they are appointed by a secret committee of Blood Lords who in turn are selected by undisclosed means. Some rumors suggest the appointment committee is chosen at random, while others claim that Chancellor Kemnebi is the only member of this “group” who appoints Graydirge’s high governor. Regardless of the method, the high governor doesn’t know who put them in power. Thus, they never have any idea as to which Blood Lords or, by extension, which Great Factions, have the authority to remove them from power. This arrangement prevents Graydirge’s high governor from stepping out of line, such as by interfering with food production, changing local laws too rapidly, or plotting against the Blood Lords in the gray wastes far removed from Mechitar.
  大多数鲜血领主认为总督是一个无力的小卒子,但在灰悼城的人们看来,总督无所不能,对他们的生活有着不容置疑的支配权。
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Most Blood Lords consider the high governor to be a powerless pawn, but as far as the people of Graydirge are concerned, the high governor is all-powerful and holds unquestioned sway over their lives.

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灰悼城 Gratdirge            聚居地 6

守序邪恶 城市
偏远且阴郁的骨灰瓮之城
政府 政府任命的市政独裁者(高阶总督)
人口 9400(75% 不死生物,20% 人类,3% 半身人,2% 其他族裔)
语言 通用语,柯莱士语,死灵语,奥斯里昂语

宗教 内希斯,厄伽图娅,宗-库山
威胁 兽性大发的食尸鬼,争斗不休的贵族,作祟,饥饿的不死居民,游荡的丧尸
亡灵统治 灰悼城遵循严格的等级制度,将不死生物置于其他任何生物之上,并限制生者的权利。不死生物有着广泛的自由裁量权,可以虐待甚至杀死不在另一个不死生物保护之下的活人居民。出于恐惧,大多数生者NPC对不死玩家角色的态度为乐于帮助,而在最好的情况下,不死NPC对活着的玩家角色的态度一般为不关心。

贝林·哈多利 Berline Haldoli  (LE 女性 半身人 死灵师 6)低阶鲜血领主,赋生者的一员,监督着灰悼城的许多尸耕农场。
奥塔加·缝颅 Ortagar Stitch-Skull  (LN 男性 人类 宗-库山祭司 4)位于灰悼城、名叫“空无门槛”的宗-库山神庙的负责人
七胃的塔夫-格赫塔 Taf-Gekhta Seven Stomachs  (LE 妖鬼 贵族 5)灰悼城的高阶总督
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GRAYDIRGE  SETTLEMENT 6
LE CITY
Remote and somber ossuary-city
Government: government-appointed municipal dictator (high governor)
Population: 9,400 (75% undead, 20% humans, 3% halflings, 2% other ancestries)
Languages: Common, Kelish, Necril, Osiriani
Religions: Nethys, Urgathoa, Zon-Kuthon
Threats: feral ghouls, feuding aristocrats, haunts, hungry undead residents, wandering zombies
Undead Rule: Graydirge follows a strict hierarchy which places undead above all others and limits the rights of the living. Undead have broad discretion to mistreat or even slay living residents who aren’t under the protection of another undead. Most living NPCs are helpful toward undead characters out of fear, while undead NPCs are generally indifferent to living characters, at best.
Berline Haldoli (LE female halfling necromancer 6) Low-ranking Blood Lord who is a member of the Reanimators and oversees many of Graydirge’s zombie-worked farms.
Ortagar Stitch-Skull (LN male human priest of Zon-Kuthon 4) Head of the Empty Threshold, Graydirge’s temple to Zon-Kuthon.
Taf-Gekhta Seven Stomachs (LE ghast aristocrat 5) High governor of Graydirge.
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灰悼城的人们
People of Graydirge


  灰悼城是一个充满了阴暗的秘密、古老的怨念和压迫性传统的城市。它的大多数居民都是不死生物,许多已经在这个城市生活了几个世纪。大量的食尸鬼居住于地表,而吸血鬼则倾向于那些在街道下有更大的房间的老建筑。这座城市吸引了一些不死盖布人,它们还没强大到插手首都危险的政治,却仍渴望主宰他人,比如灰悼城的生者居民。
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Graydirge is a city of grim secrets, old grudges, and oppressive traditions. Most of its residents are undead, and many have lived in the city for centuries. Numerous ghouls inhabit surface dwellings, while vampires tend to claim older structures with larger chambers beneath the streets. The city draws undead Gebbites who aren’t powerful enough to meddle in the dangerous politics of the capital but who nonetheless desire to dominate others, such as Graydirge’s living population.
  在灰悼城当一个活人的前景相当危险,但这座城市的人口中还是有着相当多的人类、半身人和其他族裔。他们中有很多并非出于选择,而是由于出生而生活在这里。即便在这一群人中,人们也不断地和邻居们争夺权力和影响力。某些住宅或整个社区可能是当地一名吸血鬼或食尸鬼的觅食地,而要得到一个与贪婪的亡灵邻居仅有几家之隔的生活空间可能相当昂贵。但是生民(the quick)还能做什么呢?身处在一座位于不死国度中心的山顶上的壁垒森严的城市里,四周围满了丧尸和凶蛮的食尸鬼,离任何主要河道或港口都有数英里远,他们只能尽可能地确保安全——而住在灰悼城拥挤的小巷和肮脏的公寓里,总比被送到附近把人当成牲畜来养的死亡牧场要好。
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Being a living person in Graydirge is a dangerous prospect, but the city has a sizable population of humans, halflings, and other ancestries. Many of these people live here not by choice, but by birth, and they remain in relative destitution. Even among this population, people constantly vie for power and influence among their neighbors. Certain dwellings or entire neighborhoods might be known as the feeding ground of a local vampire or ghoul, and acquiring a living space that’s just a few more homes removed from a ravenous undead neighbor can be expensive. But what else are the quick to do? Sitting in a walled city atop a hill in the center of a nation of the undead, surrounded by zombies and feral ghouls in all directions, countless miles away from any major river or port, they’re as safe as they can be—and living in the crowded alleys and filthy apartments of Graydirge is better than being sent to the nearby death ranches that raise people as mere livestock.
  灰悼城的生者居民,被那些拒绝化作不死侍奉盖布之人的骸骨包围,时刻被提醒着他们最终的命运。无论怎样,他们的死亡都不会是结束。他们所有人都将为盖布服务,无论是作为食物,还是作为丧尸劳工,或是——如果他们设法凑够了影响力(或运气)——作为更强大、保留了记忆和自由意志的不死生物。
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The living residents of Graydirge, surrounded by the bones of those who refused to serve Geb as undead, face a constant reminder of their ultimate fate. One way or another, their deaths won’t be the end. All of them will serve Geb, whether as food, as zombie laborers, or—if they manage to scrape together enough influence (or luck)—as a more powerful undead who retain their memories and free will.

著名人士
下列灰悼城居民在城中扮演着重要角色。
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NOTABLE PERSONALITIES
The following Graydirge residents have prominent roles in the city.
  • 贝林·哈多利(LE 女性 半身人 死灵师 6)是一位低阶鲜血领主,但这也使她成为灰悼城最有权力的人之一。在极少数情况下,她还是盖布在这座城市的官方代表。作为一位与赋生者派系关系紧密的死灵师,贝林创造了许多在周边农场劳作的丧尸工人。贝林乐于训练尸倌们如何监督这些劳工,她也同样乐于谋杀并复生那些没有展现出足够能力的人。贝林喜欢美味的食物、有礼貌的同侪和辛勤工作的丰硕成果。她对于宴会以外的仪式没什么兴趣。虽然她对自己目前的地位基本满意,但贝林总是在寻找有用的盟友。许多人认为贝林是一个公平且公正的雇主,但很少有人会称她仁善。她常将自己所期许的坦陈相告。她对那些为她工作的人以及她的朋友和盟友要求也很多。如果她认为某人在一段关系中没有发挥自己的作用,无论是职业还是其他方面,她会迅速切断联系。
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    Berline Haldoli (LE female halfling necromancer 6) is a low-ranking member of the Blood Lords, which nevertheless makes her one of the most powerful people in Graydirge. She also serves as Geb’s official representative in the city, in the rare need such representation is required. As a necromancer with close ties to the Reanimators faction, Berline creates many of the zombie workers who labor on surrounding farms. Berline delights in training junior corpse tenders in their task of overseeing these workers, and she just as happily murders and reanimates those who don’t demonstrate sufficient skill. Berline enjoys good food, polite company, and the fruitful results of hard work. She has little interest in ceremonies other than feasts. While she’s generally satisfied with her current station, Berline always keeps on the lookout for useful allies. Many consider Berline to be a fair and equitable employer, but few would call her kind. She’s always forthcoming about her expectations. She demands much of those who work for her as well as from her friends and allies. If she decides that someone isn’t pulling their weight in a relationship, professional or otherwise, she’ll quickly cut ties.
  • 奥塔加·缝颅(LN 男性 人类 宗-库山祭司 4)是空无门槛(the Empty Threshold),灰悼城内一座宗-库山神庙的首席祭司。奥塔加的信徒主要是生者,因为几乎所有的不死生物都对痛苦习以为常,而对午夜领主教会的圣礼没什么兴趣。由于活人往往位于灰悼城的底层阶级,奥塔加经常发现自己在代表活人反对不死精英的掠夺,他的教会支持的许多非宗教项目在其他社会中可能被认为是仁慈的社会福利。奥塔加与贝林·哈多利有着长期的友谊,既是基于相互尊重和对美食的共同热爱,同时也因为有这位有影响力的鲜血领主站在他这边意味着他能为他的教众中的活人崇拜者挤出更多的保护。
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    Ortagar Stitch-Skull (LN male human priest of Zon-Kuthon 4) is the head priest of the Empty Threshold, Graydirge’s temple to Zon-Kuthon. Ortagar’s congregants are primarily among the living, as nearly all undead are far more inured to pain and thus less interested in the sacraments of the Midnight Lord’s church. As the living tend to form an underclass within Graydirge, Ortagar often finds himself advocating on behalf of the living against depredations by undead elite, and many of the non-religious programs his church supports might be considered benevolent social welfare in other societies. Ortagar has a longstanding friendship with Berline Haldoli based on mutual respect and a shared love of good food, but also because having the influential Blood Lord on his side means he can eke out more protections for the living worshippers in his congregation.
  • 七胃的塔夫-格赫塔(LE 妖鬼 贵族 5)是灰悼城的现任高阶总督。它在大约10年前接替了它的前任,而每个人都对塔夫-格赫塔在盖布回到公众视野后造成的一切混乱中还能保持权力感到震惊。它认为自己是因为幸运,才避免了随后的鲜血领主之间争端产生的余波和上级派系之间不断加剧的紧张局势所带来的任何影响。塔夫-格赫塔又高又重,他可怕的姿势使他看起来永远因痛苦而翻来复去。他用浓郁的香油和香炉来抑制自己的恶臭,并迅速遣走抱怨臭味的下属。塔夫-格赫塔不断改变他的举止,包括他的穿着,来取悦在某天可能出现的任何一位鲜血领主或上级派系代表。因此,它最近摒弃了同侪的浮夸服装,认为贝林·哈多利更喜欢简单的装束。事实上,贝林并不关心这位谄媚总督的穿着打扮,尽管她喜欢抛出微妙的暗示,表明她是鲜血领主的秘密委员会成员,并有权决定他的命运,只为了让这腐烂发臭的高阶总督保持警惕。
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    Taf-Gekhta Seven Stomachs (LE ghast aristocrat 5) is the current high governor of Graydirge. He took over from his predecessor about 10 years ago, and everyone is shocked that Taf-Gekhta has remained in power amid all of the chaos following Geb’s return to the public eye. He considers himself lucky to have avoided any fallout from the ensuing disputes between the Blood Lords and the rising tensions between the Great Factions. Taf-Gekhta is tall and heavy, and his terrible posture gives him the perpetual appearance of being doubled over in pain. He works to keep his reek in check with heavily scented oils and pomanders and quickly dispatches of underlings who complain of the smell. Taf-Gekhta constantly changes his mannerisms, including how he dresses, to please whichever Blood Lord or Great Faction representative might be present on a given day. Thus, he has recently eschewed the ostentatious clothing of his peers, thinking Berline Haldoli prefers simpler attire. In truth, Berline couldn’t care less about how the obsequious governor dresses, though she likes to drop subtle insinuations that she’s on the secret council of Blood Lords with the power to determine his fate, just to keep the high governor on his rotted, stinking toes.


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贝林·哈多利
Berline Haldoli
奥塔加·缝颅
Ortagar Stitch-Skull
七胃的塔夫-格赫塔
Taf-Gekhta Seven Stomachs


灰悼城概览
Graydirge at a Glance

  绵延不绝的灰悼城是一座由白骨与岩石组成的堡垒,位于一个低矮平坦的山丘之上,周围是干旱的荒地和零星的农场。一道30尺高、由白骨与岩石融合而成的墙围绕着这座古城,墙内大部分石制建筑都有几千年的历史。有三扇大门——东、南、西各一扇——能进入灰悼城。每道城门都有一个巨大的拱门,其两侧是骨灰塔(ossuary-tower),阴森地提醒着人们,这座城市是如何建成,以及到底是何等人士居住其中。
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Graydirge is a sprawling fortress of stone and bone atop a low, flat hill surrounded by arid wastes and scattered farms. A 30-foot-tall wall of fused stone and bones surrounds the old city, and most of the stone buildings within are thousands of years old. Almost all structures feature bones as part of their construction. Three large gates—one each to the east, south, and west—allow access to Graydirge. At each gate, a massive archway flanked by ossuary-towers serves as a grim reminder of exactly how the city was built and what sort of people live within.
  城里的交通很少,而城门几乎总对外来者关闭。某些市民——大部分是不死生物——可以随意进出,但对于生民,不论进出,都要忍受一小时或更久的扰人讯问和似乎毫无意义的等待。灰悼城的城市守卫们既官僚又武断,它们会利用一切机会无情地压迫任何它们可以压迫的人。
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Little traffic passes through the city, and the gates are almost always shut to outsiders. Certain citizens—mostly undead—come and go as they please, but the quick must endure an hour or more of intrusive questioning and seemingly pointless waiting whenever they enter or leave. Graydirge’s city guards are as bureaucratic as they are martial, and they take every opportunity to relentlessly oppress anyone they can.
  联通每道城门的城市主干道很少拥堵,但这主要是因为生者居民被禁止在主街道上聚集超过七人。鉴于不死居民的数量,灰悼城的夜晚和白天一样活跃。这个城市的大部分活动都发生在狭窄的小巷、拥挤的后街市场和地下会馆——通常是在天黑之后,因为这个城市的许多不死居民在家里一直呆到日落。少数生者居民昼夜颠倒,这或者是他们所从事的业务要求(例如,为吸血鬼服务的裁缝在白天无法有效运作)或者,对某些人来说,纯粹是出于偏执。在灰悼城引起注意可能是致命的,所以即使是最繁忙的市场也是个相对安静、阴沉的地方,业务往来迅速而高效地在那里进行。
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The city’s main thoroughfares, leading between each of the gates, are rarely crowded, but that’s largely because living residents are forbidden from gathering on the main streets in groups larger than seven people. Given the number of undead residents, Graydirge is just as active at night as during the day. Most of the city’s activity takes place in narrow alleys, crowded backstreet markets, and underground parlors—typically after dark, as many of the city’s undead residents remain at home until sundown. A few living residents keep a nocturnal schedule, either as a requirement of whatever business they conduct (for example, a tailor for vampires can’t effectively operate during the day) or, for some, out of sheer paranoia. Drawing attention in Graydirge can be deadly, so even the busiest markets are relatively quiet, somber places where business transactions happen quickly and efficiently.
  有时,而且在过去几年里更加频繁,圣事司仪(Celebrants)会决定举办一场盛大的游行,巡游整座灰悼城。成群结队的不死生物穿过城市,在游行大道(the parade grounds)上翩翩起舞,而城里的生者居民则被法律要求挤满附近的街道,带着欢呼观赏庆祝活动。这个活动是生者居民唯一被允许公开聚集超过七名的时候,因此许多家庭喜欢这个借口来进行社交。
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On occasion, and with greater frequency in the past few years, the Celebrants decide to throw a grand procession that parades through Graydirge. Hordes of undead pass through the city, dancing through the parade grounds, and the city’s living residents are required by law to crowd the nearby streets and observe the celebration with cheers. This event is the only time public gatherings of more than seven living residents are permitted, so many families enjoy this excuse to socialize.


街区
Neighborhoods

  灰悼城内由墙内的五大街区,外加南门和西门外最近多出的两个街区构成。此外,市中心相当大一部分是专用的公共游行大道,并且灰悼城唯一一名常驻鲜血领主在城内拥有一片庞大的地产,其本身就相当于一片街区。
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Graydirge consists of five neighborhoods within its walls, plus two neighborhoods that more recently arose outside the south and west gates. Additionally, a sizeable portion at the center of the city is dedicated to the public parade grounds, and the city’s only resident Blood Lord owns a massive estate within the city walls that’s practically a neighborhood by itself.
  • 鲜血领主的恩赐 Blood Lord’s Grace:贝林许可了很多显眼的建筑造在山腰的城墙外一直到南边,虽然无数法律让这类扩建成本高昂甚至完全禁止。但她坚持认为城市需要扩建到城墙外来提升食物产量,反正这座城又没有被入侵的风险,但她遭遇了来自盖布首都的政敌,后者不希望城市生长得太大,太快,或则说根本不希望城市扩张。这片城区,通常被简称为“恩赐”,大部分居住着半身人、人类、枯皮丧尸和枯槁尸,绝大多数都是贝林的雇员或合作人。
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    Blood Lord’s Grace: Berline has allowed significant construction outside the city walls on the hillside to the south despite the myriad laws that make expansion costly or outright prohibited. She insists that the city needs to expand beyond the walls to increase food production and that it faces no danger from invasion, but she has run up against rivals in Geb’s capital who don’t want the city to grow too much, too quickly, or at all. Most of this district, often just called “the Grace,” is populated by halflings, humans, and husk zombies or withered zombies (Pathfinder Book of the Dead 170-173), the vast majority of whom are Berline’s employees or associates.
  • 刮骨区 Bonescrape:这片城区是灰悼城最古老的街区之一,曾经也是最富裕的街区。刮骨区大部分人口都生活在地下住宅中,夹在城市建立前遍布这座山丘的旧堡垒与要塞的那些被掩埋的墙壁间。大部分居民都是次级不死生物或是逃离肉市区的生民(qiuck)。刮骨区有着城里最著名的建筑之一:空无门槛(the Empty Threshold),一所宗-库山(Zon-Kuthon)的神庙。
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    Bonescrape: This district is one of Graydirge’s oldest areas and was once the most opulent. Most of Bonescrape’s population lives in belowground residences, wedged between the buried walls of old fortresses and keeps that dotted the hillside before the city’s founding. Most residents here are minor undead or quick who’ve escaped the Meat Market. Bonescrape includes one of the city’s most notable buildings: the Empty Threshold, a temple to Zon-Kuthon.
  • 食尸鬼之庭 Court of Ghouls:该社区是城中最大的市场和工匠区。这些集市广场大多都盖着用相互啮合的骨头和帆布制成的棚子,用来遮挡太阳。该社区大量的居民的确是食尸鬼,但这名字的由来是该城区只允许食尸鬼进入的一小段被遗忘的城市历史。
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    Court of Ghouls: This neighborhood is the city’s largest market and artisans’ district. Many of the market plazas are covered by roofs of meshed bones and canvas to block out the sun. Many of the residents are indeed ghouls, but the name is a holdover from a brief and forgotten period in the city’s history when only ghouls were allowed in the district at all.
  • 齿咬区 The Gnashes:这片街区大体上属于住宅区,其中居住着灰悼城内大部分的中产阶级,包括许多效力于比邻的总督区中的富裕家庭和哈多利庄园的不死生物。
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    The Gnashes: This largely residential area is inhabited by much of Graydirge’s middle class, including many undead who serve in the nearby wealthy homes of the Governor’s Quarter and Haldoli’s Estate.
  • 总督区 Governor’s Quarter:城里最富裕的城区,包含了高阶总督的住宅,和富裕亡灵们的居所与商铺。高阶总督雇用的协助管理城市的职能人员们也住在这里,为了财富和影响力而互相勾心斗角。
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    Governor’s Quarter: The city’s most opulent district contains the high governor’s residence and homes and shops for wealthy undead. Functionaries the high governor employs to help run the city also live here, scheming against each other for wealth and influence.
  • 哈多利庄园 Haldoli’s Estate:这座围墙内的别墅里住着灰悼城内唯一的常驻鲜血领主,贝林·哈多利。她维护着城里仅有的花园与果园。只有少数她十分信赖的仆人才能与她一同生活在此,而这些人中又只有少部分还活着。
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    Haldoli’s Estate: This walled villa holds the residence of Graydirge’s only permanent Blood Lord, Berline Haldoli. She maintains some of the city’s only gardens and orchards. Only a few of her more trusted servants live here with her, and few of them are alive.
  • 肉市区 Meat Market:这片相对贫困的街区内大部分都是灰悼城活者居民们凄凉住所。有传言说这个地区下面埋藏着废弃的剔肉场(flesh rendering sites),但迷宫般的隧道、有关危险生物的传言还有犯罪帮派都阻止大多数人对它们的找寻。多家制革厂开在地表,赋生者雇佣了几十名工人来给产自灰悼城腹地农场的大量皮革染色。这些制革师给皮革染色的方法,无论来自动物还是人类皮肤,几个世纪都没变过。
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    Meat Market: This relatively poor neighborhood largely contains dismal residences for Graydirge’s living denizens. Rumors tell of abandoned flesh rendering sites buried beneath the district, but the maze of tunnels and rumors of dangerous creatures and gangs dissuades most people from searching for them. Multiple tanneries operate on the surface, where the Reanimators employ dozens of tannery workers to dye the massive quantities of leather produced on the farms of Graydirge’s hinterlands. The method these tanners use to color leather, whether from animal or humanoid skin, hasn’t changed in centuries.
  • 烤炉区 The Ovens:灰悼城某位前任高阶总督许可几个近期从死亡牧场(the death ranches)迁来的活人家庭在城市西边建造住房,并授予这些新居民特赦和公民权。一个月后,总督又把他们活活烧死在家里。如今,几十年过去了,现任高阶总督已经下令重建该城区,但他没有解释原因。
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    The Ovens: One of Graydirge’s recent governors allowed several families of living people who had recently arrived from the death ranches to construct dwellings west of the city, granting these new residents both amnesty and citizenship. After one month, that governor burned them alive in their homes. Now, decades later, the current high governor has ordered the district rebuilt, but he has yet to explain why.





著名地点
Notable Locations

  灰悼城的重要地点详见以下几项,其与本卷封面内页地图上的数字相对应。
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Significant locations in Graydirge are detailed on the following pages and correspond to the numbers on the map on the inside front cover of this volume.
  • 燃灯颅骨大道 Avenue of Burning Skulls:贯穿总督区的主街道两旁横列着燃烧着无热量魔法火焰的颅骨。有人说,盖布本人能通过颅骨中的火焰来观察周遭。所有的燃灯颅骨有时会变暗或闪耀起明亮的光,这似乎是随机的。
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    Avenue of Burning Skulls: The main street running through the Governor’s Quarter is lined with skulls that burn with heatless, magical flames. Some say Geb himself can see through their fires. All the burning skulls sometimes go dark or flare with bright intensity, seemingly at random.
  • 贝林·哈多利的居所 Berline Haldoli’s Residence:依偎在她广阔庄园南侧的墙边,贝林的私人住宅是全灰悼城最好的,并且拥有该市最开阔的绿色空间。
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    Berline Haldoli’s Residence: Nestled against the wall on the south side of her sprawling estate, Berline’s personal residence is the finest in Graydirge and boasts some of the city’s most open green space.
  • 歪盖棺材 The Crooked Coffin:歪盖棺材是灰悼城最大的酿酒厂之一,占据了食尸鬼之庭的一整块复顶集市广场(covered market plaza)。它曾经为城市的大部分地区提供优质麦芽酒,但它最近减少了产量。有传言说,它已经换了新的所有人,而这些神秘的主人正在完善一种新的酿造酒。
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    The Crooked Coffin: The Crooked Coffin is one of Graydirge’s largest breweries, occupying an entire covered market plaza in the Court of Ghouls. It once supplied much of the city with fine ale, but it has reduced production lately. Rumors say that it has come under new ownership and that these mysterious owners are perfecting a new brew.
  • 空无门槛 Empty Threshold:这座宗-库山神庙是内海地区供奉午夜领主的公共建筑中最大的之一,至少在奈多(Nidal)之外是这样。就像灰悼城的大多数建筑一样,该神庙很大一部分延伸到了地下。该建筑包含了许多故意为之的建筑缺陷:狭窄的走廊、低矮的天花板、不平整的地板,以及其他旨在引起不适的“特点”。除此之外,它还充斥着人们期望一座供奉痛苦王子的神庙会有的全部设施:酷刑室、狰狞的宴会厅、血腥的手术室、以及囚室。
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    Empty Threshold: This temple to Zon-Kuthon is one of the largest public edifices dedicated to the Midnight Lord in the Inner Sea region, at least outside of Nidal. Like most of the buildings in Graydirge, a good portion of the temple extends underground. The structure contains numerous intentional architectural defects: cramped hallways, low ceilings, uneven floors, and other “features” designed to cause discomfort. It’s otherwise filled with accoutrements one might expect from a temple dedicated to the Prince of Pain: torture chambers, grisly feast halls, bloody surgical suites, and prison cells.
  • 灰悼城银行 Graydirge Bank:两年前,在税吏联合和圣事司仪之间的纠纷导致银行经理死亡后,该市最大的银行已经关闭至今。一些上年纪的城市官员悄声传言,称建造这座银行的建造者联盟有一些权利占用它,但具体细节仍是个谜。据推测,这家银行应该是空的。
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    Graydirge Bank: The city’s largest bank has been closed for two years following a dispute between the Tax Collectors Union and the Celebrants that resulted in the death of the bank manager. Some old city officials whisper that the Builders League, which constructed the bank, has some right to occupy it, but the details remain a mystery. The bank is presumed to be empty.
  • 老纺织品市场 Old Textile Market:生者依赖于这个位于制革厂附近区域的廉价纺织品——他们不像城市的精英那样有私人裁缝或制毯工,所以他们必须依赖永远浸染着制革厂臭味的货物。每当一个不死生物穿过老纺织品市场时,它几乎总是在寻找通向灰悼城地下墓穴的众多入口之一,这些入口遍布老街区。一些帮派分子吹嘘说,他们在市场下某个废弃的剔肉场(flesh rendering site)工作,并保证他们是唯一知道如何到达那里的人。
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    Old Textile Market: The quick depend on cheaply produced textiles from this area near the tanneries—they don’t have personal tailors or rugmakers like the city’s elite, so they must rely on goods permanently imbued with the tanneries’ stink. When an undead passes through the old textile market, it’s almost always in search of one of the many entrances to Graydirge’s catacombs that riddle the old neighborhood. Most of these old entrances lead to dead ends occupied by squatters or mazelike tunnels that only local gangers know how to navigate. Some gangers boast of operating from an abandoned flesh rendering site somewhere beneath the market, secure that they’re the only ones who know how to reach it.
  • 蓄泪水池 Reservoir of Tears:这座城市唯一的公共水源从周围街区的屋顶和遮阳棚收集雨水。来自城市各处的生者居民被迫跋山涉水,来这个储水池边收集微薄的配给水,前提是它还有,否则就得艰难地在其他地方寻找饮用水。
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    Reservoir of Tears: The city’s only public water source collects rain from the surrounding neighborhoods’ roofs and awnings. Living residents from across the city are forced to trek through the streets and collect their meager ration of water from this reservoir, when it’s available, or struggle to find potable water elsewhere.
  • 塔夫-格赫塔的居所 Taf-Gekhta’s Residence:每位新任命的高阶总督都有权选择灰悼城内的任何一栋建筑作为它们的家。塔夫-格赫塔做出了一个不同寻常的决定,它选择了一座主要由骨头构成的堡垒,其上有两个耸立在周边建筑之上的巨大尖顶。这座建筑的装饰性大于防御性,尽管有人说它位于总督正在秘密挖掘的一个更大的地下综合设施之上。塔夫-格赫塔狠辣地让每个散布这个流言的人闭了嘴,要么是因为这根本不是真的,要么是因为它不想让鲜血领主认为自己在搞鬼。
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    Taf-Gekhta’s Residence: Each newly appointed high governor has the right to select any structure in Graydirge as their home. Taf-Gekhta made the unusual decision to live in an old fortress made largely of bones, with two massive spires that rise above the nearby buildings. The building is more decorative than defensible, though some say it sits atop a much larger underground complex that the governor is secretly excavating. Taf-Gekhta viciously silences anyone who spreads this rumor, either because it simply isn’t true or because he doesn’t want the Blood Lords thinking he’s up to something.


灰悼城腹地
Graydirge Hinterlands

  以下地点在灰悼城外,但近到足以归属于该城的管辖范围。
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The following locations are outside Graydirge but near enough to fall under its governance.
  • 死亡牧场 Death Ranches:如同盖布的大多数大型定居点,灰悼城附近有着数量众多的死亡牧场。这些牧场自出生起保护并抚育类人生物囚犯,直到他们大到能被运往城市,在那里他们将成为盖布的肉食性不死生物的食物。灰悼城附近的牧场几乎不需要阻止囚犯逃跑,因为等待逃跑者的是数英里的荒地和位于各个方向的丧尸农田。
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    Death Ranches: Like most of Geb’s larger settlements, Graydirge has numerous death ranches nearby. These ranches protect and raise humanoid prisoners from birth until they’re big enough to be shipped off to the cities, where they become food for Geb’s flesh-eating undead. The ranches near Graydirge need little to deter prisoners from escaping, as all that awaits escapees are miles of desolation and fields of zombies in every direction.
  • 农场 Farms:灰悼城是许多盖布内陆农场的中心枢纽,在这里种植的作物作为食物提供给国内的生者居民或是作为出口邻国的货物运送到梅吉塔尔。赋生者派系为负责为这些农场提供几乎完全为不死生物的劳动力。当贝林·哈多利得知这些农场之一——西南方向的老埃尔加的农场——发生了混乱,她召集了她的一些合伙人进行调查,这便拉开了《鲜血领主》冒险之路的序幕!
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    Farms: Graydirge is a central hub for many of Geb’s interior farms, where crops are grown for the nation’s living residents or for shipment to Mechitar as exports to neighboring nations. The Reanimators are responsible for the almost exclusively undead labor force that works these farms. When Berline Haldoli learns of a disruption at one of these farms—Old Ergagh’s Farm, to the southwest—she calls on some of her associates to investigate, kicking off the Blood Lords Adventure Path!
  • 灰色荒原 Gray Wasteland:城市的北边横亘着一片古老的战场,是沿着破碎山脉的山麓向北延伸数英里的众多类似战场之一。死灵能量在那场很久以前与奈克斯的军队发生的战斗前、战斗时和战斗后肆虐于此,而即便是现在,在许多代人过去后,这片荒原上仍旧什么都不长。甚至连给土壤施肥的尸体都没有留下,因为阵亡的士兵们被收集再利用,作为供给盖布军队的无心智丧尸,或者作为整座灰悼城的建筑材料。
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    Gray Wasteland: North of the city lies an ancient battlefield, one of many like it that extend for miles to the north along the foothills of the Shattered Range. Necromantic energy scoured these sites before, during, and after the battles again Nexian forces that took place here long ago, and nothing grows in the wasteland even now, many generations later. There aren’t even corpses left to fertilize the soil, as the fallen soldiers were collected and repurposed as mindless zombies for Geb’s armies or used as building materials throughout Graydirge.
  • 瓦拉赫庄园 Qhallaqh Manor:这座古老的庄园位于灰悼城以南约一英里处,其顶部是一个红色的玻璃圆顶,散发出遍布整个乡村的煞人殷红光芒。这座庄园已经被遗弃了好几年,但一直有传言说危险的生物现正占据着它。
    剧透 -  原文:
    Qhallaqh Manor: This ancient manor lies about a mile south of Graydirge, topped by a red glass dome that spreads a baleful crimson light across the countryside. The manor has been abandoned for several years, but rumors persist that dangerous creatures now occupy it.
  • 破碎山麓 Shattered Foothills:破碎山脉的山峰在灰悼城以西隐约可见,但没多少盖布人有理由去探索山脉的荒凉山麓。赋生者数十年前就决定,试图找回被困在山脚下岩石缝隙和狭窄沟壑中的无心智丧尸过于危险,不值一试。锈蚀怪、被残余在灰色荒原上的魔法扭曲的游荡生物、超自然的风暴和其他非自然的威胁已经夺走了不止一个希望用这些迷失的士兵或落魄的农场工人来扩大自己的劳工队伍的死灵师的性命。
    剧透 -  原文:
    Shattered Foothills: The peaks of the Shattered Range loom to the west of Graydirge, and few Gebbites have any reason to explore the range’s desolate foothills. The Reanimators determined decades ago that attempts to recover the mindless zombies stuck in the foothills’ rocky crevices and narrow ravines are too dangerous to be worthwhile. Rust monsters, wandering creatures warped by the lingering magic of the Gray Wasteland, supernatural storms, and other unnatural threats have claimed the lives of more than one necromancer looking to expand their workforce with these lost soldiers or wayward farm workers.
  • 驿站 Waystations:建造者联盟在从灰悼城向东通往盖布更大城市的路上建造了多所高耸的驿站。税吏联合向在这些驿站寻求庇护的人们收取高额费用,甚至许多盖布的不死公民也宁可支付费用,而非面对那些在这国家乡郊野外游荡的危险生物。离灰悼城最近的驿站是个所谓的“隐居地”,城里的精英亡灵有时会在这里度假。
    剧透 -  原文:
    Waystations: The Builders League constructed multiple towering waystations on the road that leads east from Graydirge to Geb’s larger cities. The Tax Collectors Union collects heavy fees from those who seek shelter at these waystations, but even many of Geb’s undead citizens would rather pay the fee than face the dangerous creatures wandering the nation’s countryside. The nearest waystation to Graydirge is something of a “retreat” where elite undead from the city sometimes vacation.
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理想的译法是这样的:先把原文看懂,照原文译出来,看看念不念得下去,试删掉几个不一定用得着的字,看看是否有损文义和文气。如果有损,再补回来。试把不可少的字加进去,看看是否超出原文范围,增减以后和原文再校对一次。有些地方是否译错,语气的轻重是否恰如其分,原文的弦外之音译文是找不找得到?原文的意思要消化;译文的文字要推敲。有经验的译者可能一下笔就译好了,不过还是要推敲的时候多。

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Re: 【BL】《鲜血领主》1/6《丧尸盛宴》附录:《灰悼城》
« 回帖 #1 于: 2023-06-26, 周一 06:34:00 »
因为 “the Crooked Coffin” 的标志被描述为 “a coffin with its lid askew” ,故改名为 “歪盖棺材”
理想的译法是这样的:先把原文看懂,照原文译出来,看看念不念得下去,试删掉几个不一定用得着的字,看看是否有损文义和文气。如果有损,再补回来。试把不可少的字加进去,看看是否超出原文范围,增减以后和原文再校对一次。有些地方是否译错,语气的轻重是否恰如其分,原文的弦外之音译文是找不找得到?原文的意思要消化;译文的文字要推敲。有经验的译者可能一下笔就译好了,不过还是要推敲的时候多。