A young and poor tiefling-girl who lives in a large port city.

Warm sea breeze blowing from Dark Coral Bay…

Vast irrigation fields on both sides of the delta of the full-flowing Tshrayat River…

Many slaves who work on plantations, growing sugar cane, rice, oranges, cotton…

Landscape of a crowded port city, the districts of which are located on the islands in the river delta and on the shore of the bay.

Tall stone buildings made of granite, brick and sandstone rise among palms, vines and exotic tropical flowers of bright colors.

The traveler's eye will immediately notice that this is a very large port city, which is located on the shore of a warm tropical sea.

Bokra.

This is a city-state that controls important trade routes in the center of the continent and sea routes in the area of ​​the southern seas. This is a city-state that, despite the proximity to more numerous and territorially larger opponents, has an effective and strong army and navy.

Bokra is a settlement with an ancient history. The majestic ziggurat palaces that still rise in the central areas of the city are clear evidence of the long-gone times of the ancient bokranian sultans, who reigned here for almost a thousand years.

However, these times are now gone.

About two hundred years ago, the power of the last bokranian sultan was overthrown and he died a violent ****. Historians believe that he was killed along with all the representatives of his dynasty.

The coup d'etat was led by the richest trade guilds and influential communities of court wizards.

Since then, the city-state of Bokra has been a state with a republican-oligarchic form of government. All power is concentrated in the hands of several small elite communities that dominate trade, economics and social life.

The Magnificent Assembly is a governing body that appoints generals, naval commanders and ministers. This governing body is made up of representatives of the wealthiest families, who pass on their powers to their heirs from generation to generation.

These small elite groups of wealthy merchants are closely connected with the professional communities of sorcerers and wizards. This connection is so strong that many modern scholars characterize the form of government in the city-state of Bokra as a republican-oligarchic magocracy. This thesis is also substantiated by the fact that many... atypical types of magic (for example: necromancy) are permitted on the territory of the city-state of Bokra. Of course, magic is practiced only by elite circles of wealthy persons. But many things that in other states would be a serious crime subject to the **** penalty are legal here (an eloquent manifestation of this fact: the use of necromancy in the extraction of minerals in the mines on the Island of Dismal Silence; numerous squads of zombie miners are not a sight for the faint of heart...). Probably, such tolerance for various directions of magical research is one of the reasons for the high combat effectiveness of the bokranian troops.

So, you live in this rich port city...

Have you personally experienced even a fraction of such wealth and luxury?

Unfortunately, the answer to this question is negative.

And this sad fact has many reasons.

And it is worth starting with the main reason.

Most of the inhabitants of the city-state of Bokra are humans. Laws to one degree or another limit the rights of all other creatures. For some (for example, for elves, half-elves or dwarves), these restrictions are few and unburdensome. For others, the situation is worse (for example: for half-orcs, centaurs, lizardmans).

But in this list of persons. who are limited in rights, there are "champions" by the criterion of humiliation.

These are tieflings.

Persons who have in their blood the legacy of very dangerous creatures, which are called by the frightening word "fiends".

And your main problem is that you are one of these losers-tieflings.

The second problem is that you have no understanding of magic (otherwise, the first thing you would do is hide your appearance with some kind of believable illusion).

So, your name is Wilerra. You are a young tiefling girl who was born in the outskirts of the poor quarters of the city of Bokra. You have lived here since birth. Now you are 18 years old.

Your mother... You've never seen her. In response to your attempts to question her, your alcoholic father only swore at you and beat you. You couldn't even find out from him whether your mother was a tiefling (in tieflings, hereditary external characteristics are transmitted stably: that is, if one of the two sexual partners was a tiefling, then the child will definitely be a tiefling too) or someone worse... The only thing you can say with absolute certainty: your mother is the reason for your appearance - you have small black horns on your head, which are slightly curved (fortunately, your long, slightly curly dark brown hair often hides your horns from the attention of strangers); your skin has a light purple tint; you have a short, smooth, hairless and thin tail, which you try to hide from the attention of strangers; your eyes have an atypical, for normal humans, bright orange tint. And also: you have vertical black pupils in your eyes and pointed ears. These features of your appearance clearly indicate that your mother was... someone unusual from the point of view of normal humans. All this determined the fact that passers-by on the streets usually greet you with curses, spitting and phrases like "fucking seed of fiend".

How was your childhood?

Your alcoholic father died when you were about 10 years old. He was a poor man and in the last years of his life he worked as a loader in the port (and in his youth he was a sailor on a merchant ship).

After the **** of your father, because of his debts, you lost even your modest poor housing.

You were **** to wander among the beggars on the streets of the large city of Bokra.

And you began to steal.

Your childhood until your adulthood was spent on the dirty streets of the poor neighborhoods.

You stole from small street vendors in order to survive and have the opportunity to get food.

But lately, you have been having more and more problems. Your appearance as a tiefling (skin color, horns, tail) causes aggression and rudeness from most of the city's inhabitants.

This discontent of the local inhabitants is only strengthened by the requirements contained in the laws of the city-state of Bokra. According to local laws, tieflings are simply not allowed into the rich quarters of the city of Bokra.

Most of the city's inhabitants are afraid of everything connected with "fiends" (and, frankly, there are good reasons for this). Consequently, the slightest signs of appearance that resemble something demonic cause a mixture of fear, contempt and disgust among the locals.

You have experienced this on your own skin...

You have been beaten more than once by drunken regulars of taverns or ragged beggars on the streets.

The attention of the city guards towards you has increased - and this attention is clearly not friendly.

You have almost no opportunity to get a good legal job (usually any potential employer scornfully drives you away as soon as he sees your tiefling appearance).

The cruel irony of the situation is that it could be even worse: you remember the stories your father told about his travels in his youth - he said that in the west there are states where the only thing that awaits a tiefling is a painful ****. You remember the feeling of icy fear that arose in you when he spoke of such things. You probably have an overdeveloped imagination.

"Yeah... In Orlania or in the territory of the kingdom of Kuzos, you would have been simply executed without further ado, girl... The inhabitants there are very afraid of all sorts of horned ones like you... So you're lucky to live in this city... Now run to the tavern and bring me some rice vodka! Quickly!" - usually your dad finished his stories something like this.

Well...

Now there will be no more such conversations with your father.

Alcoholism and years of hard work brought him to ****.

Now you are left alone.