Ahol

Ahol

Ahol's in the world like a big black pit and it's filled with people who are filled with shit.

Type	City
Government	Monarchy
Location	Osugbo
Inhabiting Race	Humans

Ahol is a large city located in northeast Osugbo.

About

Ahol in 695 PR

The city houses thousands of residents, but is poorly run and very corrupted by its officials, who rule under a greedy king. The Best Around visited Ahol once to stop an infiltration by an enchantress and her demon spawn, they had one casualty in the form of Iris' sister Dariel.

At some point during or after the second war with Tiamat, Ahol was subjected to the curse of Perpetual Darkness.

Residents and Factions

695 PR

• Nell's Pie Shop
  • Run by an evil enchantress named Nell who makes money by controlling the hunchbacks and lunatics of the town into making pies for her pie shop. The pies are typically human flesh from victims of Sweeney.
  • Her magic focus is a String of Pearls
  • Sweeney Vrock, a transformed Vrock who has been tortured and force to obey the whims of Nell. When in human form, the Vrock performs barbering duty for the town, trapping them in his parlor before turning them over to Nell.
  • Tobias Frag, Sweeney's apprentice who discovered the truth and sought sanctuary in the insane asylum instead of being captured by Nell and her hunchbacks
• Joanna Oakley
  • A poor woman who's fiance has gone missing in the pie shop. She asked Cliffedge to send adventurers to investigate.
  • Had a fiance Lieutenant Thornhill, who was killed and baked into a pie.
  • Got a new fiance named Mark Ingestrie, who has fallen suspiciously into this position only because of Thornhill's disappearance. Later became Tobias' caretaker

• Judge Lupin
  • Addicted to Nell's pies, he does everything in his judicial power to keep the pie shop open.
  • Also owns a pet beetle.

• Dr. Haze
  • Owner of the insane Asylum, keeps Tobias locked up and tortures him under the orders of Judge Jeffrey. At one point he releases the lunatics into the streets where they set the city on fire.
• Others
  • A poor widow who also lost her husband "Alms" and has taken to the streets calling out for him.
  • Thomas Priest, who is little.

1100 PR

• Some 400 years later, the city has become a remarkable hot spot for gang activity after

Notable Locations

Other Locations

• The Blowhol, a store that specialized in selling blowguns and darts. Only one of it's kind in the city.

Behind the Screen

• Ahol's map in based directly on the streets on London, UK, where the original story of A String of Pearls and its later adaptions took place. Many of the characters and events in Ahol are an homage to the original story and its adapted musical Sweeney Todd.
• The show's line "There's a hole in the world" gives the city its name.
• Many of the 1100 PR factions and tidbits are based on Doskvol from the pen-and-paper game Blades in the Dark