Here are ten rumours for characters to hear in or about Town Bridge in Castorhage, also called the Blight, of the Lost Lands setting. They could hear these rumours whilst asking around for other information, or stumble across them in other ways. Whether or not a rumour is true, false or somewhere in between is up to the GameMaster. The rumours can be used as a source of background colour, misinformation or as potential adventure hooks.

1. Bridge-Cant is a complicated pidgin spoken on Town Bridge that’s unusually difficult to learn and decipher, especially for those who didn’t grow up with it. It’s rumoured that Town Bridge’s residents deliberately make the can more and more complex in order to ensure that outsiders have difficulties with it.
2. Crown Prince Justice Cornlord, who resides in Angel Tower on Town Bridge, has reportedly been sending agents through to Between to Scrimshaw in order to keep an eye on what’s happening in that outpost of empire. So far, he hasn’t shown any inclination to interfere, though he does seem to be keeping a careful watch on the rulers of the place.
3. Fire is always a problem on Town Bridge, and it has been burnt down over the years in a number of Great Fires. There are rumours that recently fires have been cropping up on the bridge, though they have so far been successfully put out. Some believe that there may be an arsonist out there; others that it might be something more sinister.
4. It’s said that the meanings of some words in Bridge-Cant is regularly changed, which is one of the reasons outsiders who haven’t grown up with it find it so difficult, because the meaning of what’s said changes without their knowledge. It’s rumoured that there is a group of bridgefolk who are responsible for these changes.
5. One of the reasons why the merchant Sir Rathven Tran has made a respectable fortune is because of his contacts with the Royal Family and their hangers-on and relatives. It’s rumoured, though, that Sir Rathven has to constantly keep some of the less stable members of the Royal Family bribed in various ways.
6. Thanks to a strange quirk in Castorhage’s tax laws, those who live on Town Bridge are exempt from paying tax. It’s rumoured that some of the wealthy are slowly buying up parts of the bridge, intending to convert the sometimes-ramshackle buildings into luxurious manors where the commoners are kept away.
7. The Darnell Family is a gang on Town Bridge whose members are all related to each other, making it tightly knit. They are based out of the Buttress and it’s rumoured that the Darnells are gradually taking over more and more of the Between trade that flows through it.
8. The Heath Family of Town Bridge still manage to spread fear thanks to the memory of the brutal, and recently deceased, former leader Uriah Heath. Locals are convinced that Uriah will return as either undead or alchymic-undying, and it’s rumoured that the Darnell Family is planning to steal Uriah’s body and publicly destroy it, and therefore the fear others still have in the Heath’s former Great Father.
9. The Spine is the main street of Town Bridge, crossing the river, and it’s a twisted and convoluted mess. It’s rumoured that proposals have been put forward on several occasions to demolish many of the buildings cluttering up the Spine and straightening it out to make it more use before any rebuilding is done, but these have never managed to get very far.
10. Though Workhouse Isle uses its child labour to make bleach from brine and potash lye, it’s rumoured that bleach isn’t the only thing produced. There have been claims that the factory also makes other, less legal but far more profitable, items in hidden workshops.

Want more rumours for Town Bridge? Check out 100 Hooks and Rumours for the Blight: The Jumble and Town Bridge (Lost Lands).

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