Kymal

Description

Kymal was originally a mining town, built from the camps mining a vein of gold in the Ironseat Ridge. However, by the early 700s PD, the mines had run out. The city clumsily pivoted towards trade, with little success, and the citizens relied on fishing and farming to survive for decades until around 766 PD, when Calis Krishtan, an immigrant from Ank'Harel, erected a casino, The Maiden's Wish. From there, Kymal built up its new reputation as a place for gambling and entertainment and recovered economically.

As of 812 PD, Kymal was known as a destination for those interested in games of luck, but had also become popular among criminals hoping to game the system or take advantage of those in need of money. Both the Myriad and Clasp have notable presences within the city, each running their own casino named the Dragon's Hoard and the Wishing Well respectively.

Kymal does trade with the small communities on the shores of the Foramere Basin, and it has a small private line of trade in illicit goods with Syngorn through that city's Linens Guild.

In 843 PD, Kymal was still described as a muddy little backwater known for its casinos "and truly nothing else" that was the perfect place for those seeking to lay low.

Points of interest

• Casinos
  • The Maiden's Wish - owned by Jaktur Krishtan
  • The Wishing Well - owned by the Clasp as of 836 PD
  • The Dragon's Hoard - owned by the Myriad as of 836 PD

Demographics

In 812 PD, Kymal was a small city with a population of 7,991 made up of humans (73%), dwarves (14%), and various other races (13%), including some gnolls. By 836 PD, Kymal's population had grown greatly to 29,440. Humans were still the majority (63%), followed by dwarves (24%), and others make up the rest (13%).

Many tieflings embrace their infernal ancestry in this seedy town, and the margrave in 836 PD is a tiefling. The city is a center of the rock gnome population in Tal'Dorei, but aside from Sybil and Kaylie, there were no other female forest gnomes there while Kaylie was growing up.

Player characters

• Deni$e Bembachula, dwarven ally of half of Bells Hells, was originally from Kymal.
• Morrighan Ferus, a thief posing as a server at the Maiden's Wish casino who joined some of the Crown Keepers for a heist.

Non-player characters

• Jinoir, a young tiefling thief, now a member of the Nameless Ones.
• Kaylie, gnomish member of Dr. Dranzel's Spectacular Traveling Troupe and daughter of Scanlan Shorthalt who helped in his resurrection ritual and subsequent criminal exploits in Marquet.
• Margrave Khavasta Almiji, who became acting margrave in or just before 836 PD.
• Krishtan family
  • Calis Krishtan, entrepreneur from Ank'Harel who opened the small Maiden's Wish casino that began Kymal's revival.
  • Former Margrave Jaktur Krishtan, Calis's son, heir to the Maiden's Wish, and local political-celebrity figure.
  • Phaedrov Krishtan, Jaktur's nephew and an aspiring actor.
• Sylker “the Millionaire” Uttolot, a former subordinate of the crime families of Shadycreek Run, joined the Myriad and became the first individual on that continent to hoard one million gold pieces.
• Claret Director emeritus Teresa Dulamar, former head of the Claret Orders of Tal'Dorei who mostly stays in Kymal.
• Theona Balmhand, wandering gnomish healer from Kymal and member of the Golden Grin
• Former Margrave Tumner Wann, who ran the city during the Chroma Crisis in 811 PD.

Factions

• Public Defense: Kymal's constabulary, around a thousand armed guards.

Crime

Kymal is the epicenter of drug trade for both the Clasp and the Myriad. Though the creation and possession of these drugs is strictly prohibited in most of Tal'Dorei, they have found popularity in Kymal, where the Public Defense is quite susceptible to bribes, arresting rather small-time crooks working for these criminal organizations, almost never the high-ranking members.

According to Lolth, members of the Children of Malice reside in Kymal.

History

Before 612 PD, a gold rush in the Ironseat Ridge made Kymal into a boom town over the next century. A century later, Kymal's gold rush came to an end as the deposits ran dry, and the mining industry died within a decade. The town only recovered several decades later with the founding of the Maiden's Wish casino.

Kaylie, daughter of Scanlan Shorthalt and Sybil, was hardened by the experience of growing up in Kymal.

Campaign One: Vox Machina

After the Chroma Conclave attacked Tal'Dorei in the beginning of Arc 3, refugees from Westruun sought shelter, food, and aid in Kymal. Some, including Elowen Brist and her son Simon, were turned away because Kymal was unable to accommodate so many refugees.

Anna Ripley found Kynan Leore in Kymal; she persuaded him to join her in the search of the Vestiges of the Divergence after telling him that it was Vox Machina that was responsible for the attack on Emon.

When Scanlan died in " The Deceiver's Stand " (1x83), Vex'ahlia teleported to Kymal to get Kaylie in order to bring her back to Whitestone.

By 812 PD, the Myriad had gained a foothold in Kymal, and was engaged in a proxy war against the Clasp there.

Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn

Technically, Khavasta "Prudence" Almiji was the main authority in Kymal, starting around 806 PD, but was appointed as margrave only in or just before 836 PD, replacing Jaktur Krishtan. As acting margrave and the commander of Kymal's Public Defense, Prudence has considerably reduced the visibility of gang violence in the city (though it still occurs in secret).

" Exandria Unlimited: Kymal, Part 1 " (E2x01) and " Exandria Unlimited: Kymal, Part 2 " (E2x02)

In 843 PD the Nameless Ones, a criminal organization that usually worked in Emon, moved 1400 of their members (including Poska) to Kymal, managing to double their numbers in a very short time by preventing people from leaving the city and forcing them to join the organization. Several agents of the criminal organization interacted with the Crown Keepers while they were doing a heist, but were unable to stop the adventurers, even though Poska wanted to trap them.