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A city-sourcebook for

Written by Anthony Ragan

This book is not a complete game in its own right, it is a supplement for

the Warbammer Fantasy Roleplay game system. To use this book property,

you will need a copy of the Warbammer Fantasy Roleplay rulebook

(ISBN 1 899 749 01 2), which is also available from Hogshead Publishing.

PUBLISHING

HOGSHEAD T M

By Anthony Ragan

Editing, extra text, layout:

James Wallis

Cover artwork: Danny Willis

Interior artwork: Oliver Bancroft,

Ralph Horsley, Pete Knifton,

Russ Nicholson, Tony Ackland

Maps: Ralph Horsley

This book has been a long time coming, and I'd like to thank a

few people who have been a big help along the way: Ken Rolston,

GraemeDavis, AlfredNunez, Jr., Patrick van den Berg, James Wallis,

Wendy, the Hot Frogs on the Loose, Craig Horning, Mom & Dad

Ragan, and Harry T. Cat. To all of you, a thousand-million thanks.

Anthony Ragan is a Northern Californian freelance

writer living in exile in Los Angeles, California. He

began gaming in 1975, when three booklets appeared

in his home town of Sacramento. Since then he has

built a collection of games far larger than he can ever

hope to play. Favourites include Warhammer FRP ,

Call of Cthulhu , Star Wars , Elric! and Lost Souls .

Anthony was co-author of the original Marienburg ar-

ticles which appeared in White Dwarf in 1989-91,

and wrote 'The Colony' for Hogshead's Dying of the

Light adventure. He also has written a bestiary for

Chaosium's Elric! . Anthony's other interests include

speculative fiction, international politics, computers,

gourmet cooking and the search for the perfect cabernet.

Marienburg: Sold Down the River

A supplement for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay

Produced by Hogshead Publishing Ltd under licence from

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Enemy Within, Dying of the Light, Apocrypha Now and Death

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marks of Games Workshop Ltd. All are used with permission.

Product code HP208

ISBN 1-899749-14-4

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WELCOME TO MARIENBURG!

Hogshead Publishing is proud to present this sourcebook for the

greatest trading city in the Old World. Please feel free to explore

the place: hunt for mutants, make a deal or two, peek in the cor-

ners, break some of the crockery - whatever makes you comfort-

able. This city is your playground. Have at it!

Marienburg has three advantages that set it apart from the other

Old World powers: its position, its great wealth and its people.

These make it an unequalled staging point for Warhammer Fan-

tasy Roleplay adventures, whether they are set in Marienburg

itself, or whether the city-state is used as a convenient starting

place. Marienburg can support all types of stories, from hunts for

treasure, monsters and secrets, through intrigue and exploration

to power-struggles and international incidents.

The city's position at the mouth of the Reik makes it a natural

centre of trade. In fact, it has a potential stranglehold over almost

all significant travel into and out of the interior of the Old World.

It is the last great natural port east of the Grey Mountains till one

reaches distant Erengrad, and the closest one to the luxury-hun-

gry cities of the Empire. Almost all of the Empire's exports and

imports flow through Marienburg - there are no ports of any sig-

nificance on its northern coast that could handle the traffic, and

the mountain passes are bedevilled by bad weather, outlaws and

worse. At the same time, the rulers of Bretonnia and the other

Old World kingdoms see an independent Marienburg as their

guarantee of access to the interior for their own goods. None

want the wealth of the city enriching the Emperor's coffers.

The Directors of Marienburg know this, and they use their

position to guarantee their freedom from Imperial control. Even

so, the Empire and Bretonnia each scheme to gain control of the

Reik's mouth, or at least to deny it to the other. And so the city-

state is a hotbed of intrigue and espionage.

With a position that makes it a focal point of trade, Marienburg

has also become a centre of almost unbelievable wealth. Whether

from taxes and tariffs or the middleman's cut, the profits from

trade have made the merchants of Marienburg influential in places

far-distant from the cold and windy Wasteland. With surplus gold

overflowing their counting houses, the heads of the Merchant

Houses serve as bankers and creditors for noble families all over

the Old World. When kings and electors need to raise mercenary

armies, they often turn to the bankers of Marienburg for ready

cash. These debts in turn give the Directors influence over the

policies of lands far-removed from their own. And, in an emer-

gency, they can afford to pay for anything they need, even some-

one else's army.

But gold and trade goods make desirable targets, and the ships

that visit Marienburg by sea and river are tempting prizes for pi-

rates, privateers and wreckers. Adventurers in Marienburg may

often find themselves taking ship against these dangers, or en-

gaging in it themselves.

Position is good and gold is wonderful, but Marienburg would

just be ruins in a swamp were it not for the acumen and tenacity

of its people. The population of Marienburg - not just Wastelanders

but people from all over the Old World and beyond - are re-

nowned as the sharpest traders and hardest dealers one could

ever meet, a fact they'll gladly tell you themselves, at length. Tough-

minded, practical and with one eye always open for a quick profit,

the people of Marienburg are constantly scrabbling to better their

lot in life. Whether working for themselves or serving the inter-

ests of another, player characters in Marienburg will find plenty

of opportunities - sometimes profitable, always dangerous.

USING MARIENBURG

This book is your tool kit. Use it to construct a stage on which the

players can create memorable stories. Dig through the history of

Marienburg and the Wasteland to find hooks for your adventures,

things from the past that lead to danger in the present. What hap-

pened to Jaan Maarten's sword after the battle of Reavers' Point?

Did it sink in the Sea of Claws with his ship, or has it found its

way into some trove? And did it give him the power to command

the seas, as legends tell?

The city itself provides all the elements you need to build ad-

ventures. Dozens of ships arrive and leave every day: who knows

what they're carrying? Spies? Smuggled Bretonnian brandy bound

for the Empire? Rare artefacts of tainted magic from ancient Araby?

Prisoners of the body-trade bound for sacrifice by some dark cult?

From schemes hatched in the posh salons of the Export-Import

exchange to lives bought and sold along the dank canals of Suiddock,

the daily life of the great port will provide you with innumerable

adventures. Just use your imagination.

To help stoke the fires of your fevered mind, this book is di-

vided into several major sections. First is a general description of

Marienburg and the Wasteland, giving you the physical layout of

the place. Then comes the tale of the city-state's politics and his-

tory, how it came to be what it is today. Next is an overview of

major locations and personalities in Marienburg itself, from the

palaces to the slums, and from those born with a silver spoon in

their mouth to people barely able to put clothes on their backs.

And, to get your games off and running, we provide both a full

adventure and several short adventure hooks. Finally, there are

rules for creating native Marienburger characters and two new

cults important to the city.

We've deliberately not described everything in the city, giving

you room to shape entire districts for whatever purpose suits your

game. We've also taken care to detail the places and people that

are going to be the most interest or use to games-masters and

player characters. Take it for granted that the more mundane parts

of life are there as well. They just don't make interesting reading.

Marienburg belongs to you and your players now. Do with it

what you will. And enjoy it!

THE WASTELAND

Prologue

Geography

The Sea

North

South

The Coast Road

The Grootscher Marsh

Fen Loonies

Koos the Mutant King

Private Militias

Elftown Law

Witch Hunters, Bounty Hunters and Others

The Court System

Criminal and Civil Courts

Guild Courts

Handelsrechtbank

Admiralty Court

Temple Court

Holding a Trial

General Procedures

Reaching a Verdict

THE CITY OF MARIENBURG

The Lie of the City

Marienburg's People and their Money

History

Competition

Timeline

RELIGION AND THE RELIGIOUS LIFE

Major Cults

Manaan

Haendryk

Verena

Shallya

Ranald

Minor Cults

Sigmar

Solkan

Morr

Olovald

Ulric

Myrmidia

Guild Cults

Forbidden Cults

Chaos

Khaine

Stromfels

DISTRICTS

Wards and Boroughs

DIPLOMACY

Foreign relations & trade

Bretonnia

The Empire

Ulthuan

Other countries

POLITICS

Government

The Stadsraad

The Directorate

The Staadtholder

Minor boards and commissions

Ward committees

Great Families

House van der Kuyper

House van Onderzoeker

House de Roelef

House van Haagen

House van Scheldt

House van Raemerswijk

House Fooger

House van den Nijmenk

House Den Euwe

House Rothemuur

Guilds

CRIME AND LAW

The League of Gentlemen Entrepreneurs

Significant Members

Contacting and Joining the League

Training and Services

Brother Gerardus Hondschoen

Law Enforcement

The Black Caps

Marienburg Secretariat for Trade Equity

SUIDDOCK

Stevedores' and Teamsters' Guild

Lea-Jan Cobbius

Riverman's Association

Axel Huurder

Willibrod ' Weird Willi' Molendijk

Brotherhood of Seaman and Pilots

Albert Loodemans

Orphanage of St Rutha

Brother Albertus Cobbius

Pelican's Perch

Ishmael Boorsevelt

Wasteland Import-Export Exchange

Denizens of the 'Change

Making Deals

Market Prices

Golden Lotus Dreaming House

Venk Kataswaran

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