Jordan Teauge: The baron of the ville of Mocsin. He
ruled the ville with an iron hand for over twenty-five years. He
was one of the first people Trader sold arms to. With Traders help, he was able to
build a powerful little empire for himself.BARONS, BARONIES AND VILLES
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This file will contain information on Barons, their personal baronies, as well as all the villes and communities that Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists encounter travelling across the ruins of the States.
Jordan Teauge: The baron of the ville of Mocsin. He
ruled the ville with an iron hand for over twenty-five years. He
was one of the first people Trader sold arms to. With Traders help, he was able to
build a powerful little empire for himself.
He took over the ville from a man named Dolfo Kaler. He killed him, saying that Kaler had a plague. From that point on, he ruled the ville with an iron hand. Anyone wishing to pass through the ville had to pay a hefty toll. Those who couldn’t pay were either killed, or had their vehicles and personal belongings confiscated and then were sent to work in Teauge’s gold mines. If the people had family, it was not uncommon for them to return from the mines to discover their loved ones had disappeared, and quite often into one of the many gaudy whorehouses that lined the main strip of Mocsin.
Over the years, his control slowly began to slip out of his fingers. His head sec man, Cort Strasser took over more and more responsibilities until one day, Teauge was nothing more than a figure head. Strasser, not Teauge, was responsible for nerve gassing Traders convoy.
After being taken captive by Ryan Cawdor, Jordan Teauge was killed by Cort Strasser. The ville of Mocsin was all but destroyed in both a revolution, and when Traders booby-trapped vehicles exploded.
Teauge was a grotesquely fat man with a massive belly bulging in folds, lapping at his thighs. His flesh was pinkish, his face red, the cheeks sagging around a small thick lipped mouth and which was fringed with white stubble. His eyes were flesh colored beads. He is wearing a dirty blue robe lined with white fur and knee length riding boots.
Ryan and his friends come across a small encampment
of men and women. These people follow a tall, skeletal man with
long black hair and wild eyes named Apostle Ezekiel Herve. They
all worship a battered fire blackened Crucifix, and are awaiting
the return of their ‘Dark Lord’. When they see Henn, who is African American, they believe
that their ‘Dark Lord’ has finally come. They invite
the party to stay and eat, then rest the night. Hen is taken
aside and forced to have sex with many of the Apostle’s
women followers. He is then drugged and strapped to an altar in
front of the Crucifix. Ryan, with Krysty’s help, break out of the building they are trapped
in, attack and kill the followers and rescue Henn. Doc ends up killing Herve.
Baron Tourment: A huge area around what used to be
Lowellton. This area is controlled by a evil African American man
named Tourment. He is incredibly tall, standing at
7’.3" in height. His fingers were like steel, able to
crush bone, but his body is weak, his knees unable to support his
massive weight. To make up for this, he had to wear a special
exoskeleton just to be able to walk. His hair was short and
curly, and the most unusual thing about this baron is the fact
that his manhood was about twice the size of a normal mans. Few
women could be with him. He was also a doomie. He controls his barony from what used to
be the Best Western Snowy Egret Inn in West Lowellton.
Tourment’s head sec man was named Mephisto. He helped Tourment keep an iron grip on the barony. Krysty and Lori later kill him.
He has been at war with ‘The White Wolf’ for years, in what seemed to be a never-ending battle for control of the villes of Lowellton and Layette. When Krysty and Lori are capture and taken to Tourment’s home, Ryan and his remaining companions meet with Jak Lauren, the white wolf. They offer to help him overthrow Tourment so he can rescue his lover and Lori. With their help, the people with Jak were able to not only overthrow this evil man, but also wiped out his entire squad of sec men, finally claiming the barony for their own.
With Ryan’s help, Jak is able to track down and finally kill Tourment as revenge for killing his father.
Ryan and his band spend one night in the ville of
Moudongue. This small ville is on the outskirts of Baron
Tourment’s territory. The ville had no more than thirty odd
buildings and about three swamp wags. It is here, during a
celebration that Ryan encounters one of his manservant's from
back when he was part of a powerful barony family which
controlled Front Royal.
During the night, Tourment’s men attack with the intention
of capturing the band. They hear it coming and escape into the
night, but not before Ryan extracts his revenge on the man
responsible for killing Arnold Hennings.
After leaving the redoubt to explore, the band comes across a huge ville
named Ginnsburg falls, a clean, neat town of 8,407 souls. The
first thing that happens is they encounter a group of armed sec
men riding in a jeep. They are taken into the ville and placed in
an Outworlder dormitory.
As mentioned, the ville is immaculate. No dirt on the streets, everything is clean and neat. All the buildings and the clothing worn by the ville’s inhabitants conform. There are no gaudies, no drink houses, no minorities and no muties.
They discover, much to their dismay that females are second class citizens and that the male population outnumbers the female population seven to one. The reason the population is so heavily in the favor of males is that all female children are taken at the age of three months for what is known as an exposing. They are left out in the elements and to the wild animals. Those who survive are brought back to the ville. To prove themselves, Ryan, J.B., Doc, Finn, and Jak are forced to participate in a stoning.
Like women, the old and mutants are treated poorly. Doc is to be sent to an old folk home and then for euthanasia. Jak is to be killed out right.
Unlike the vast majority of the ville’s throughout the Deathlands, this ville has power, vehicles, even its own radio station and electricity.
Major Theodore Sissy, who controls it with an iron grip, rules the ville. It seems that his family took over the ville a few years after the nuclear winter ended.
He orders the women (Krysty and Lori), to be separated from the rest so he can personally inspect them, and decide if they are to be used as stay-homes or whores. He is killed later on that evening by Lori as Ryan and the others come to rescue the two women and make good their escape from this ville.
Just before reaching the Mohawk River, the band
encounter a tiny settlement inhabited by muties. They sneak past this settlement and steal
a raft to speed up their journey. They are spotted and are forced
to kill one of the mutants, waking the entire ville. They do
manage to escape without having to kill anyone else.
After stealing a sec wag and being forced to kill the owner and his family
they come across a small ville near the Delaware River Bridge
which has set up a barricade across the road. The sec men guarding the bridge recognize the wag, but
are startled to see young Jak Lauren behind the wheel. They
attempt to attack the wag, but Ryan orders Jak to step on it and
they smash through the barricade.
They come across the burning ruins of a car and two
people who claim to be the only survivors from a group who were
using the car to travel. Ryan reluctantly agrees to allow them to
come with his band, so they can help them get past a colony of Cannies. As fate would have it, the two they
picked up are part of the colony and are used as bait to lure
unsuspecting outlanders
into the waiting arms of their brethren. The Cannie ville is
located near the ruins of Susquehanna. Well over a dozen of the
Cannies are killed, the rest flee for their lives when the ambush
against the sec wag fails.
Front Royal. The Cawdor family runs this powerful
Barony. The Cawdor’s have controlled this section of
Virginia since just a few years after the skydark.
A major purge occurred about twenty years before, after Harvey Cawdor took over the ville and nearly killed his younger brother Ryan.
After all these years, Ryan Cawdor returns to Front Royal to set things right, and repay a blood debt owed to him. He is finally able to kill Harvey, his wife Rachel and their son Jabez. After they are destroyed, he allows his nephew, Nathan Freeman Cawdor to take over as baron of the ville.
Sherville. This is the first ville that Ryan and his
band encounter upon entering the Barony of Front Royal. This is
the home of Nathan Freeman.
Drowned Squaw Apache Tribe. This fairly large tribe
lead by Cuchillo Oro was assisted by Ryan Cawdor and his friends
to fight off and destroy the Pony Soldiers lead by Cort Strasser.
The Ranchero is located in the Drowned Squaw Canyon and contains
about sixty wikups. The ville is saved after the group lure the
soldiers away from Fort Security
into the canyon where they are ambushed, and all but four of the
soldiers are killed.
Claggartsville. This town in Maine is quite large
and prosperous considering the Deathlands norm. The ville has
between seven hundred to eight hundred homes and shops. There is
a well maintained harbor which at any time can safely house as
many as eight or more whaling vessels. The people of the ville
are not unfriendly, but are, as with most people, wary of Outlanders. Any outlander is given three days of
hospitality and to look for jobs. After the three days are up, if
they have not been able to find a job (and that would be
difficult to do), they are forced to leave. The townsfolk speak
in an odd, sixteen hundreds style, using lots of thee's thous'
and so forth.
Snakefish California. This ville of two thousand and
growing was founded seventeen years after the Skydark. The current Baron was a man named Edgar Brennan. The ville was incredibly rich by
Deathlands standards, as it traded in gasoline and oil. A power
struggle was taking place between the Baron, and the head of the
snake cult, the Motes. The
ville is destroyed when Ryan Cawdor and his band destroy the gas
refinery in their bid to escape.
Moscow. The inner portion of the Jewel of Russia was
destroyed in the Skydark, but the suburbs not only survived, but
due to the communist government prospered. The ville has patrols,
running vehicles, power, water, a working communication system,
and a economy. How many other major cities across the Deathlands
and the world survived like this may never be known.
Markland. This
ville was located on the shore of lake Superior. A total of forty
homes made up the ville, but there were no signs of modern
technology. The ville was as primitive as they came. The people
of the ville lived like the vikings of old, including huge nearly
fifty foot long Viking boats. The women are nothing more than
second class citizens and they used slaves. The leader of the
ville was a man named Jorund Thoraldson.
Alias Carson
is the baron of Towse located in New Mexico. He took over the
ville from the local apache Indians after attacking and driving
them away. Over the years he was able to carve out a sizeable
empire for himself. He was able to trade for a great deal of
weapons and wags as he had discovered a redoubt filled with pre
freeze jewellery and paintings. His first wife, a woman named
Consula was killed accidentally when he tried to shoot an apple
off her head, upon her insistence. He took a second wife, a
beautiful woman named Sharona. He stood at six foot one in
height. He was in his middle forties and quite lean. He always
wore a lightweight Grey business suit and a homburg hat, as well
as horn rimmed glasses. His eyes were a pale blue and he spoke
with a Texan drawl.
Towse. This ville was destroyed in the fighting
against Trader. All the men of the ville were killed as nearly
every single one was involved in the attack. The women and
children were escorted by the convoy to the north, to spare them
from retaliatory attacks instigated by the Apache Indians.
Harry Stanton is the ruler of the underworld in New
York city. He originally started out as a scavenger and then hit
paydirt when he found a hidden store house filled with garbage
bags. From here he created the biggest organisation in the ruins
of New York city, trading for just about anything you could
imagine. He met Ryan and J.B. many years before, just after Ryan
had joined the convoy. He knew Trader for years before that, as
well as Trader's partner Marsh. Ryan ends up leaving him and his
weapons when they steal his LAV 26 to use in the rescuing of his son Dean.
Stanton promises that if they ever meet again, he will have to
kill Ryan and slowly for what he did.
Larry Zapp, or boss Zapp. this gargantuan man took
over as baron of the Greenglades Theme park in Florida an unknown
time ago. He is a technological genius and was able to get a
large number of the attractions and rides up and running once
again. Just on the outskirts of the park were a series of Condo's
which he allowed old survivors to live in, for a fee of
protection. Several months ago a young man named Adam
Traven came to the ville
with his 'posse' and slowly began to wrest control from Zapp
after getting the man hooked on a drug known as dreem. The man dies trying to help Ryan rescue Doc Tanner.
Charlie's stickie ville. A highly intelligent stickie
named Charlie had
taken over some ancient Indian ruins in New Mexico. There were
ninety males, forty four females, and eighteen children. They
lived like civilised humans. No sign of garbage, or dirt. They
wore clean and neat clothing, and unlike many of their genetic
brethren were able to talk clearly and even intelligently. After
a group of lepers attack, nearly the entire ville is destroyed.
Charlie, the leader of these stickies is killed two months later
by Christina Lauren.
The Midnites. This huge gang of male hating, cannibalistic
mutants live in the ruins of what used to be Chicago. They go out
of their way to capture males, milk them for their seed, then
kill and eat them. Any male children born are killed and eaten as
well. They all share a couple of physical similarities, being
very pale, huge protruding eyes, and nocturnal. Other than that
they can be tall, short, fat, thin, ugly, beautiful, etc. They
have a legend of a flame haired woman that would come to the
ruins and lead them away to the west. Krysty Wroth fit the bill
and they captured her. Ryan, J.B. and the rest rescue her from
their lair, inflicting huge losses.
Baron Alfred Nelson.
The baron of Vista in the Rockies. This huge man stood at seven
foot three inches in height. He was huge, not even remotely fat,
weighing in at over three hundred pounds. He had broad shoulders
and a deep chest. His hair and beard were pure white, not grey.
He wore dark green corduroy pants, tucked into knee high polished
brown boots. Over his torso he wore a russet woollen jerkin. The
baron was killed by Krysty Wroth
when his mother revealed his plans of treachery.
Yuma. A pest hole located about fifty miles away from
Vista. This ville is controlled by a man named Wizard Sidler. He
and Baron Nelson have been at war for years, ever since Nelson
destroyed his former barony. The ville itself is a stinking pest
hole where the worst scum and criminals in the Rockies come to
stay and many call home. His head is blown off his shoulders by Doc Tanner after he kills a woman named Ellie Morte. He loved to dress in black and wore a
matched pair of Navy colts. He was about thirty years old.
Baron Nathan Mandeville. The baron of the ville of Sun Crest, one of the
richest villes in all of the Deathlands. This particular baron
and his beautiful daughter, Marie, enjoy a very unusual type of
sport. They hunt down humans and hold gladiatorial games in the
ville. At first Nathan welcomes the party with open arms, showing
off his ville to them and taking good care of the group. But it
is only a day before they discover that the baron plans to hunt
them down. He is killed by Doc Tanner. The man was close to six
feet in height, and was very well built, running close to fat. He
had a head of white hair and a white beard. When he wore red
pants and a shirt, he heavily resembled Santa Claus.
The ville of
Quindley is on the shore of Lake Champlain. It is a small ville
of thirty seven men and forty six women and a handful of young
children. It is run by an unseen 'god' who calls himself Moses. The people of the ville are forced to
live as vegetarians, and to top it off, none are allowed to live
past the age of twenty five. When they hit this age they are put
to death. If anyone tries to escape before this happens, they are
placed in what is known as a 'stand up' and left to die of thirst
and hunger. Occasionally, they are placed in human shaped cages
and set ablaze. After their leader is killed in a fire, the ville
breaks up and most of the kids are dead within a weeks time.
The ville of
Patriarch in New Mexico. This ville had a dozen houses, a ruined
church and a single store. The 'baron' was a powerful, huge black
man with a pretty white wife and two or three dozen children of
varying ages. The man was named Fred Zero, and his wife was named
Penny,
Baron Tenbos. The
kind and just ruler just inside Utah. He invites Ryan and J.B. to
stay with him for a day, and not only feeds them, but stocks them
up on food and water for the trip. He really wanted J.B. to stay
behind for a month to help him refurbish his antique gun
collection, but J.B.s too determined to make it to Seattle and
meet up with Trader. Baron Tenbos is killed by one of his step
sons, but the killing doesn't go un-avenged. Ryan kills both of
them.
The ville of
Huston Wells. Ryan and J.B. refuse to stop and pay the toll, and
end up fighting their way out of the ville, nearly getting taken
out by an anti tank weapon. After killing the 'Baron' they
continue on their journey.
They stop in a
nameless ville and find someone had restored part of it, using
stuffed humans. They meet the man, named Malachi Greeble and end
up killing him the next day after they catch him trying to sneak
into their room to kill them as they sleep.
Another nameless
ville hires them to take out a small group of Stickies who are
suffering from the shitting disease. They learn that the ville's
inhabitants plan to try and take their vehicle and weapons once
the deed is done, but beat them to the punch. Instead of the pair
of them taking out the sick Stickies, they are killed by a group
of deer hunters. The hunters decide to have a little fun with the
female Stickie and become infected with the disease. They
encounter the hunters on the way out of the ville and send them
right on in as revenge.
Springham's
Fortress. Abe, Trader, Ryan and J.B. stop here to trade the four
black horses that they had no use for when the hearse they were
driving broke a wheel. Things could have been quite tense because
Trader had a history with the Grandfather, Bart. But they leave
the farm fortress unmolested.
The ruined hotel
of Hightower. This once majestic building was run by Baron
Torrence and his two 'little Girls'. Slowly, over the years as
quakes ravaged the area, more and more of the old hotel slid into
the canyon and river hundreds of feet below. Ryan and J.B. are
forced into a 'shotgun' wedding by the Baron who wants a pair of
powerful men to take over his barony. Both women are killed, and
they kill the baron as they escape the building as well. Having
secured a ancient Volvo truck, they use it to escape and make it
back to Krysty and the others.
The Crichton
Institute. This facility was but two years before the great war.
As luck would have it, due to bad programming and the terrain, it
survived the initial exchange. For the past one hundred years the
scientists based there have been delving into genetic engineering
and cloning. They have had success with cloning and some with
engineering. But about thirty years ago, all their medical
knowledge was lost due to an electrical fire. The base housed
over one hundred sec men, scientists, and support personnel. Many
of the sec men and scientists were killed when they showed their
true colors to Ryan and the others.
Baron Weyman and
his son Jamie. The baron is old and sickly, but highly educated.
He has let his barony fall into near ruin, ripe for the pickings,
which a group of brushwooders, lead by Straub, wish to try and
take. His son, a boy of eleven, bears a striking resemblance to
Dean. Because of his hospitality, Ryan and the others agree to do
what they can to help the baron with the Brushwooders. After Dean
and Jamie are captured, there is an attempt to rescue them, but
it fails. Eventually, at the cost of over a dozen sec men, the
boys are freed.
Sean Sharpe. The
baron of a well defended and secure ville near the ruins of
Washington. This tall, blond, handsome man is suffering from
schizophrenia, going from one mood to another in moments, always
listening to his 'inner" voices. The baron loved to collect
mutants, and had a huge zoo filled with mutant animals, as well
as four mutant humanoids. The baron wanted to keep Jak, Krysty
and a woman named Emma who was a powerful doomie in his zoo. He,
as well as a large number of his sec men are killed after Ryan
and J.B. come to rescue Jak, Doc and Emma. The baron meets his
doom in the jaws of his favourite hidden mutant
"Rupert".
A village of
natives is fairly near the gateway from which Ryan and his band
emerge. The ville has been at war for generations with another
village, these people calling themselves the jaguar people. The
leader, a man named Itzcoatl,
believes that Jak is a god, and invites the group to stay with
them in the ville. They help the ville's people destroy an
invasion of army ants, as well as wipe out the slavers that
threatened to take them all. In the end, Itzcoatl poisons Jak,
forcing him to stay behind. In the rescue, Itzcoatl, as well as
many of the elder natives, are killed. But with the threat of the
slavers gone, as well as the generations old enemy, the ville
should survive.
To the south of
Jak's home is an isolated ville by the name of Brampton. Here
they find the people to be listless and tired, all wear high
collared and long sleeved shirts. The villagers have been living
in the shadow of the 'Family' for
generations, probably all the way back to the skydark. Like most
villes, they are neither openly hostile, nor friendly to the
group.
There were several
villes encountered in the mountains of Colorado. The first is a
small ville called Glenwood Springs where the group stop and
barter for a meal, but end up killing the owner when he threatens
them. To prevent a lynch mob, they burn the diner down to cover
the killing.
Brody's school for
boys. This school is more like a fortress than a school. This is
where Dean is dropped off by Ryan for a year or more, so he can
get a good education, or as good as they can get in the
Deathlands. Ryan took a instant liking to the owner, Nick Brody,
and feels safe leaving his son there.
The ville of
Leadville is not too far from Brody's school. This particular
ville is a little better off than some of the others, and here
Ryan gets a room and a decent meal. He's set upon by three
bandits, wanting to know what happened to their friends. He kills
all three and is given his meal for free. He then leaves a
message for the others when they finally get there.
The ville of Alma
used to be a thriving ville, until the bandits came along and
drove off or killed most of the inhabitants. The only one left is
a crippled woman named Elvira Madison, who Ryan spends a little
time with, when the house is collapsed by a mudslide trapping
Ryan and killing her. He is set upon by a mess of tiny mutant
mice, and nearly dies when Krysty and the others find him and
free him.
In the ville of
Fairplay they learn that Harmony ville had been taken over by the
bandits and use it as their home base. In this ville they meet
the man who took Krysty's virginity, Carl Lanning. They find out
that some of the bandits use this ville, but none are currently
in it.
Coming into the
ville of Harmony, the group spreads out and goes house to house,
killing the bandits, and anyone that is in league with the
bandits. Only one person is killed in the fight, well, the
massacre. Carl Lanning dies trying to fight off two stickies that
are attacking Krysty. They leave the ville before anyone can stop
them and talk to Krysty.
Shogun Mashashige.
The ruler of what is left of Japan. This small, athletic man
proved to be a man of great honour and decency despite the fact
that he wanted to use the single gateway located in Japan to
bring many of his people to the Deathlands. He treated Ryan and
the others very well, even though they were from the hated
America. In the end, he takes his own life, with Ryan acting as
his second after his brother, the leader of the Ronin, destroy
his fortress and nearly everyone in it.
A nameless dirt
poor pesthole on the banks of the Tennessee river is where Ryan
and the others stop for a brief meal. Things would have gone
well, even with the fact that they stole one of the ville's rafts
until someone hits Jak with a stone. A firefight breaks out and a
number of the villagers are killed. At the same time Jak and Ryan
are wounded.
After travelling
down the Tennessee, they come to a small ville called Pittsburgh
landing. Here they stop for a meal and the night, then the next
morning they go to see the Shiloh battlefield, guided by a local
man. When they leave, several of the locals set out before them,
in hopes of ambushing the group for their weapons. But they are
onto what the locals have planned and get past, taking one of the
men out as payment for their treachery.
Country Row. This
ville was set up by Gert Wolfram as an attraction. It's filled
with all manner of museums and shops showing off Country music.
It is also redneck central, where muties and blacks are not
welcome. Here Ryan and the others get into a brief firefight in a
bar called Harmony, taking out two young rednecks. They end up
stealing the men's four by four in order to avoid a lynch mob.
Memphis. The city
was destroyed in the war, but a beautiful and powerful baroness,
the countess Katya Beausoleil now rules over the ruins. She runs
a tight ship, but is looking for someone to make her pregnant, so
she can have an heir to take over the ville. Her closest advisor
is the man known as Straub. She chooses Ryan to be the father of
her child, but pays the blood price in the end.
Just after losing
Paddy to a trio of killers in a small ville, he gets revenge for
the little man then races away from the ville. He is chased into
another small ville, where he kills several people and steals a
boat to escape from the posse. He makes his way down the river to
Twin Forks.
The ville of Twin
Forks is a bustling ville on the junction of the Tennessee and
Mississippi river. It has sprung up over the years and has become
a major trade centre for the river. There is even an annual
merchants convention held there.
The city of St.
Louis was destroyed during the war, but a new St. Louis sprung up
on the banks of the river fifty miles away from the original
city. It is another bustling ville, like Twin Forks.
Gert Wolframs
Mining ville. Gert Wolfram set this operation up and was using
the Stickie mutants as slave labour. The Stickies managed to
escape, and Gert Wolfram tried to force Ryan and J.B. to hunt
them down and return them to the camp. The base is destroyed by
Ryan and J.B.
There is a ville
called Helskel, several hours travel from Mount Rushmore. The
leader of this bizarre community is a man named Lars Hellstrom.
He runs the ville following the writings of a mad man named
Charles Manson. They community is thriving, living off the
technology they receive from the pre ruin government officials
that survive inside the Mount Rushmore redoubt. Lars Hellstrom is
the son of a Eastern Baron, and he is also a minor telepath, able
to plant suggestions, as well as read surface thoughts. The ville
suffers heavy damage when J.B. and the others break out of their
prison and blow the fuel dump to cover their escape.
New London. This
ville rose out of the ashes and many miles away from the original
London in England. There are several important people in it,
including Blackjack Gehrig, who is responsible for harvesting the
vines that the Celts use for food, clothing and defence. It has
become a powerful trading port for the rest of England and Europe
as well.
The community of
Wildroot. This is run by Prince Victor Boldt, the founder of the
ville, and the son of the man responsible for creating the vines.
The ville is invaded by the people from New London at the same
time as the soldiers from White Sands and Ryans group enter to
free Mildred.
Willie Ville. This
large ville is located in the Carolina's. It is the centre of
Baron Willie Elijah's little empire. Here he uses mutants as
slave labour, or they are kept in his extensive zoo. The ville
stops anyone from going through where they are taxed 10% of all
their goods. The centre of the ville, where Willie lives, is a
twenty five story predark hotel. Here he runs his empire and
meets with his subjects. The elevators are run by slaves in the
basement of the building. The baron, Wille, is a large man, who
used his daughters to breed, and then his Grand daughters. He was
responsible for uniting the Eastern baronies during a second
mutant uprising nearly two decades before. He is shot to death by
his own wife/grand daughter when he refuses to kill her so the
Stickies don't get her.
The ville of
Amicus. It was set up ten years previous as an experiment to see
if several groups could live together in peace, as well as being
a major trading centre between the native tribes and people who
live in the area. It was used during the winter time as a home
base for the land pirates, the Red Cadre until a point when they
ambushed a native tribe and were then forced to leave. The leader
of the ville is Mose Autry. After the attack by the Red Cadre,
the population of the ville was reduced by a full third and they
were forced to rebuild.
Ti Ra Wa, a fabled
valley of paradise. Touch the Sky, Joe, brings Ryan and his
people to the valley to help him fight his battle against the
wolf soldiers so he can claim control and use the power of the
earth to heal the Deathlands. During the fighting, many of the
soldiers on both sides are killed, and the Valley it's self is
heavily damaged when Joe starts a fire to try and burn out his
enemies. Once Joe is killed and Ryan's group is allowed to leave,
they are told never to return.
There are five
baronies located near the western islands in California. For
years the barons fought each other to a standstill until one came
up with a brilliant idea of using teams to fight for them instead
inside an arena in what used to be Las Vegas. The baron's team
that won would allow the baron to rule over the five Baronies for
another year. When they make the mistake of capturing Dean and
some boys from the Brody School, as well as Ryan, JB and Mildred,
a large number of the baron's sec men are killed, as well as the
baron Connrad. Four barones still live.
Kings Point, GA.
This military base survived the nuclear holocaust unscathed due
to a faulty comp control in the missile that was targeted at it.
A single LOS ANGELES class nuclear submarine survived. A man who
later came to call himself Poseidon took control of the base and
began to hire mercenaries to build his own personal navy. For
several years he traded peacefully with the locals, until he
finally had the power to start calling the shots. Admiral
Poseidon had plans to obtain nuclear weapons that survived the
war and use them to create a huge empire. But, after he captures
and loses Ryan he chases the big man into the nuclear sub and
they launch. A group of mutants, known as the Dwellers use a mine
and sink the sub. Ryan fights the Admiral and escapes the dying
sub, which settles deep in the depths, the madman still trapped
inside.
A commune of
peaceful people live about half a day's travel from Kings Point.
Here they live off the sea, and hand in hand with friendly
mutants known as Dwellers. The leader of the commune, Shauna,
wants to extract revenge on Poseidon for killing her husband
three years before. She is killed by the Admiral.
Deep in the
Guadalupe desert located in what is left of California is located
an old movie set that has been turned into a new city. This city
is called Aten and is ruled over by a genetically engineered man
who's original name was Alpha, but he changed it to Akhnaton. He
has moulded the city and the society of the entire population
after Ancient Egypt. The people live in relative peace and
prosperity. He wanted to take Krysty as his wife and the mother
of his children, and nearly succeeds in doing so using his
formidable psionic abilities. But Krysty snaps out of his control
and kills the man. His daughter Nefron. takes over as the ruler
of the city.
Though technically
not a baron, and he refuses that he is, Administrator Morgan runs
a fairly tight ship in the Freedom Mall. He has been able to keep
things up and running smoothly for a number of years. Thousands
come to the Freedom mall every month, and just as many call the
mall home permanently. Just about everything imaginable can be
bought or sold here. Clothing, food, curio's, etc. There is even
a working theatre in the mall, though it can show only 4 movies.
A gladiatorial arena is located in the mall to help people vent
their natural violent tendencies. The mall was destroyed when a
small army of Stickies, led by Lester Johnston, a hideously
scarred survivor of Willie Ville attack. Administrator Morgan
returns the groups main weapons and helps them escape the
onslaught. Since his lively hood has fallen, he leaves to find a
new life out in the wastelands.
The ville of
Hazard, in southern Kentucky is ruled over a man who calls
himself Doc Kirkland. He controls every aspect of the ville's
peoples lives with the help of his own personal gang of enforcers
(who were wiped out by Ryan's group). He kept a tight reign on
the ville using a bio weapon agent which he called Kirklands
Plague. Anyone who tried to leave the ville would end up dying
within two days. In actuality, the townsfolk were not infected,
but he had his men use dart guns to infect anyone who tried to
leave. He tried to force Ryan and his followers to stay behind
and become part of his force, but they refused. As Kirklands
forces were holding a siege to try and kill the band a travelling
circus run by a man named Handsome Wyatt entered into the ville.
Ryan recognised him and knew there would be trouble. The
newcomers are forced into the fight and during the confusion the
group are able to escape back to the redoubt where they jump.
In the Arctic
circle the band find themselves guests of an Inuit tribe run by
chief Harlan. Due to the control circuits of the gateway being
damaged from the ice encasing the redoubt they offer to help
Harlan take out his Russian foes so they could get at the
equipment on board the cruiser to enact the repairs.
Near the ruins of
Fresno California a man named Joshua Wolfe sets up a ville which
he called Hopeville. The ville was too near a damaged redoubt
which leaked enough radiation that was making the people sick and
causing them to give birth to monsters or that their children
were either stillborn or died shortly after birth. The ville was
finally wiped out after a major earthquake and then the loss of
their leader, Joshua Wolfe to a sniper shot from Ryan Cawdor.
Before this happened, the ville was home to over a hundred souls.
Virtue lake. This ville was
built around the Virtue lake refinery. It was controlled by Baron Zeal, a tall
strangely dressed man who liked to wear women's clothing. He made the
fatal mistake of crossing Trader. He and Trader Shabazz tried to force Trader
into breaking into a huge redoubt known as Spearpoint. The man was killed
after Shabazz and his crew were taken out by the Guardian around Spearpoint.
He raced back to his refinery and was taken out by the explosives that JB, Ryan
and the others planted.
The city of Idaho Falls was
destroyed during the holocaust but like most major centers, once the radiation
levels dropped off, people returned to the ruins and made a home.
Everything from scavengers, to coldhearts, to fishermen and hunters, and
muties. Ryan and his crew ran into a group of coldhearts who made the
local junkyard their home. Almost all the coldhearts were killed between Ryan's
group, the mutant ghoulies and sec men.
A trading post run by a woman
named Annie is run by both her and her son. Ryan and the group stop there
on their way to meet up with the Heimdall foundation. They trade for ammo
and clothing. Doc ends up getting intimate with Annie. The fortress comes
under attack from coldhearts but they defeat them and take off towards the
foundation. The trading fortress is still intact.
The Heimdall foundation dam
camp. This place was set up temporarily during the spring and summer
months along the Idaho river so they could trap and divert water to the
foundation. The dam was blown in order wipe out a group of pirates that
had attacked. But enough water was diverted to the foundation during the
attack.
Created on 07/14/97
Updated on 07/14/99