A Continent of Banalities

(Scroll down for a quick setting primer) A great statue of a cyclops looms over Djar-Zagzig’s bazaar. It is the symbol and namesake of the trade league which controls commerce and trade routes throughout the Maju. Some greenhorn once asked Abelhanz Gray why the league’s symbol is a cyclops. “It’s got one eye on the bottom line” he replied. “It’s got but the one eye” said the greenhorn “Yeah”. Gray has no great love for The Cyclops, but he works for the organization as a fixer. The Cyclops has a standing army of armed guards, but sometimes subtlety (or failing that deniability) is needed. That is where Gray comes in. Abelhanz Gray did not start out to be a crook. Rather he was a playwright and an actor. Born in the southernmost part of the Königreich to parents who both worked in the Office of Cultural Recognition (OCR)’s sprawling bureaucracy, the young Gray was subjected to a kaleidoscope of art, and rarely saw his parents. He was inspired though. Gray was thirteen when he presented h...