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15 minutes of new D&D brainstorming, part 4

I'm going to try and hide this from my players, but if you're a player and have opened this, please stop! I'm copying from my previous post to expand upon it. Now though, I'm going to focus on the city of Thanatos, where the adventure begins. Expanded world notes are here.

Thanatos

  • City of about 10,000 but hard to tell as many come to this town to die
  • Beautiful city on the coast that is surrounded by forest
  • Many come to live their final days here as it's quite beautiful and the death care industry is prominent
  • 5 taverns/inns that have an attached care home
    • Sea of Dignity Tavern
      • Specializes in burial at sea
    • The Trillium
      • Generalist and cheapest
    • The Arbor
      • Specializes in forest burial
    • Park Lawn Inn
      • Has the largest graveyard
    • Ypiresía Etaireía
      • Specializes in cremation
      • Also does fireworks 
  • Town guard and garrison
    • Christos Giannopoulos, captain of the guard (appointed by council)
      • Half-elf
      • Fighter
      • Male
      • 34, served for 5 years
    • Random town guard name generator
    • Guard stats
  • Temple to Thanatos
    • Thanatos Academy
      • Death care academy attached to the temple
    • Sophia Ioannidis, high priestess (appointed by priests/esses of temple)
      • Wood elf
      • Female
      • 68, served for 50 years
    • Vasiliki Oikonomou, seer
      • Aarakocra
      • Nonbinary
      • 81, served for 70 years
  • Zoo
  • Marketplace
    • Blacksmith
    • General store
    • Fancy clothing store
    • Camping gear store
    • Pet shop and stable
    • Apothecary
    • Bookstore
    • Carpenter
    • Toy shop
  • Council
    • 1 council member for every 1,000 people, so 10 total
    • Members elected every 5 years, election just happened
    • Yiorgos Papageorgiou
      • Fire genasi
      • 26, served for 5 years
      • Male
    • Yiannis Georgiou
      • Aasimar
      • 81, just elected
      • Male
    • Vassilis Pappas
      • Deep gnome
      • 73, served for 25 years
      • Male
      • Chief counselor
    • Dimitris Nikolaou
      • Dragon born
      • 18, just elected
      • Nonbinary
    • Michalis Karagiannis
      • Half-orc
      • 30, served for 5 years
      • Nonbinary
    • Eleni Vlachos
      • Rock gnome
      • 56, served for 15 years
      • Nonbinary
    • Konstandina Makris
      • Mountain dwarf
      • 85, served for 10 years
      • Female
    • Paraskevi Dimitriou
      • Water genasi
      • 64, just elected
      • Female
    • Katerina Alexiou
      • Goliath
      • 93, served for 40 years
      • Female
    • Angeliki Theodorou
      • Aarakocra
      • 32, served for 10 years
      • Female
  • Diverse city as people come from all over to study death care

(Prompt by me)

"Ready to Roll" by Benjamin Esham. Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0). 


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