Take note that the city is 40 pasang (28 earth miles) deep and 25 pasang (17.5 earth miles) long (shoreline). That's a LOT of city to walk. It’s advised to avail yourself to fee carts and other transportation. The only valid points of entry is through the Sun Gate located along the Vosk Road, or by ship. The actual main marketplace (The Plaza of Iphricrates) and the City Square proper comprise approximately 5 pasang (3.5 earth miles) by 7 pasang (5 earth miles). There are five other smaller marketplaces within the city. Of the 25 pasang of shoreline all but approximately 10 pasang (7 earth miles) are dedicated to shipping docks, piers and warehouses, which take up approximately 3 pasang (2 earth miles) deep. The balance of coastline is mostly private property.
The central avenue that runs from the Sun Gate directly through to the Magistrate’s Office continuing through to the headquarters of the Vosk League, is called the Avenue of Calliodorus. It's a very wide thoroughfare that allows for wagons and pedestrians alike. Make sure to note that many of the streets run through both the safe and unsafe zones, so make sure you know where you are.
About Our Home - Port Victoria
Victoria is an advanced roleplay home, developed heavily on realism. We are not a home from twenty (20) some odd years ago where it was ripe with lack of education of what to expect as realistic and typically centered around a Tuchuk campfire scenario. Even in homes that were cities back then, there were “Main Halls” that served as citified camp fire scenarios where everyone sat around together and slaves offered to serve. Both of those scenarios are onlinisms and will never be a part of Port Victoria.
Where do you meet up with people in real life? Not a “central fire” or “main hall”. Restaurants. Bars. Shopping centers. Parks. Theaters. Sporting events. And the list goes on. Even in the days of ancient Greeks and Romans they had those things. The bathhouses were another place to gather socially.
We are a busy city with establishments such as restaurants and Inns designed after those described in the books. These places have their own employees, such as cooks and wait staff. Just like in real life. Too often it’s been seen that a man and his slave will be in a restaurant and he’ll have his slave serve him -- as in getting up, walking into the kitchen like they own the place, ignoring the wait staff and the chef, and proceed to cook up food, plate it and return to serve it to her owner. Another typical ONLINISM.
Where does your partner/wife/ et al serve you food? At a restaurant? Can you imagine what would happen if you tried that in real life? You’d get evicted from the restaurant. So where is it proper for your slave to serve you a meal? Your home, of course. Also, slaves were fed at home. There is a reason for that. It reminds them that they are slaves, not free persons out enjoying a fancy meal at a restaurant.
Our pulldowns regarding the various establishments are as depicted in the books. Entering our home, you will partake on the adventure of credible roleplay, of things realistic even as they would be in ancient Greece or Rome. Gor is an extension of those cultures Most everything within the books can be compared to Earth and her cultural histories. Except for the animals. Most are monstrous knock-offs of the beasts of Earth, such as the Kailiauk is likely the extinct Mastodons, while urts are more Earth rats on steroids.
Jarls? No such thing in Victoria. Men of the north should they find themselves in Victoria will be called Master. It’s actually insulting to call a man a Jarl in the south, for it has a very important meaning in the northern lands beyond being used by bonds rather than the term “master.” It's actually a term that frees use in addressing a Jarl. Do you know what that importance is?
Questions? Ask. Suggestions? We’re always open to suggestions as long as they are reasonable, valid and credible and do not take from the vision of this home. Onlinisms? Ditch them. They make you laughable.
Geographical Location of Victoria
Victoria is a port town on the north shore of the Vosk River, bordered inland by the Vosk Road. Her direct neighbors are Tafa to the west, and Fina to the east. Historically, her past is tarnished by a large battle between the Vosk towns and the Vosk pirates in 10,127 C.A. Victoria is the headquarters of the Vosk League.
I turned away from the block in the barnlike structure in Fina, one of the many towns on the Vosk. ...
The next towns west on the river were Victoria and Tafa. West of Tafa was Port Cos, which had been founded by settlers from Cos over a century ago. The major towns west of Port Cos, discounting minor towns, were Tetrapoli, Ven and Turmus, Ven at the junction of the Ta-Thassa Cartius and the Vosk, and Turmus, at the eastern end of the Vosk's great delta, the last town on the river itself.
Rogue of Gor, pages 90, 97.
Most of the major towns on the Vosk are on the northern bank. This is undoubtedly because of a one-time policy of Ar to maintain a margin of desolation to the north, one stretching to the river, across which it would be difficult Zor an invader to bring an army.
Rogue of Gor, page 711.
"Both Port Cos and Ar's Station fought on the river, in terrible and bloody battles, hull to hull. After the final victory over the pirates, which took place at Victoria in 10,127 C.A., the parts of the stone came into the keeping of Calliodorus, at that time acting first captain in Port Cos, and Aemilianus, who was at that time commander of the naval forces of Ar's Station. The pledge was renewed privately between them, I think, as comrades in arms, as Ar's Station was not permitted by Ar to join the Vosk League."
Rogue of Gor, pages 525-526.
While the trade markets keep the town thriving well, and as such, a wide variety of goods are found in her market places, Victoria is more notable infamous for her slave trade comprised mostly of captives, often at the hands of river pirates. She is almost as notorious as Port Kar in this regard.
“Avoid Victoria,” he said. “Why?” I asked. “Are you a slaver?” he asked. “No,” I said. “Then avoid Victoria,” he said. “Why?” I asked. “It is a den of thieves,” he said. “It is little more than a market and slave town." “There is an important slave market there?” I asked. “You can sometimes get cheap prices on luscious goods there,” he said. “Why are the prices sometimes so cheap?” I asked. “Girls who cost nothing can be sold cheaply,” he said. “The marketed girls are then primarily captures?” I asked. “Of course,” he said. “I do not understand,” I said. “It is well known on the river,” he said. “What is well known?” I asked. “That Victoria is one of the major outlets for the merchandise of river pirates."
Rogue of Gor, pages 97-98.
“What am I offered for this girl?” called the auctioneer. “What am I offered for this girl?" It was a blond-haired peasant girl, thick-ankled and sturdy, from south of the Vosk. She was being sold from a rough platform on the wharves of Victoria. She wore a chain collar. “Two tarsk bits,” came a call from the crowd. I pressed through the throngs on the wharves. The wharves were crowded with goods and men. The masts of river galleys bristled at the quays. There was the smell of the river, and fish.
Rogue of Gor, pages 99.
In any such camp, of course, and there had been in this one, there are usually several merchants. These are generally both wholesalers and retailers, but primarily wholesalers, for retailers are usually indigenous to given cities. These wholesalers usually distribute to retailers, in their individual cities, or, often, also, in well-known slaving centers, of which there are many, for example, Ar, Ko-ro-ba, Venna, Vonda, Victoria, on the Vosk, Market of Semris, Besnit, Esalinus, Harfax, Corcyrus, Argentum, Torcadino, and others. Most of the wholesalers, I suppose, do have permanent headquarters, somewhere, but they, or their agents, often frequent these camps, as well, availing themselves of the considerable advantages accruing to their trade in such places.
Dancer of Gor, page 160.
“Is Victoria not a market town,” I said, “a major market for slaves, wholesale and retail? Are not many slaves disposed of there? Do not buyers come there, even from far beyond the Vosk basin?”
“It is the major slave market on the Vosk,” he said.
Smugglers of Gor, page 543.
I had been sold in Victoria, from the wharf market, and later, following being ferried across the Vosk and transported in one of four slave wagons south, ankles chained, with five others, to a central bar in the wagon bed, had been again sold, in Torcadino, as a work slave to a mill. From that bondage I had been again sold, to me inexplicably, the first of several sales that saw me vended, usually after only a few weeks, sometimes a few days, out of one city or town, or even village, to another.
Plunder of Gor, page 152.
Victoria, as many port towns and city, is not immune to the criminal factor. This could likely be, in part, to the common problem of drifters that come from all over Gor.
Drifters among the river towns are not uncommon. They come from all over Gor.
Rogue of Gor, page 231.
Whining, the thief was dragged before us by the two dock workers. He was still in great pain. He could scarcely stand. The dock workers had torn off his clothes and, ripping his tunic, had made a rope of twisted cloth, with which they had bound his hands behind his back. They also had him on a short neck leash, also fashioned of twisted cloth, from his tunic. His right hand was bleeding, and his left leg, in two places. The leg seemed gouged. The dock eels, black, about four feet long, are tenacious creatures. They had not relinquished their hold on the flesh in their jaws when they had been forcibly struck away from the leg, back into the water. The thief shrank back from me. The dock workers threw him to his knees before the merchant.
Rogue of Gor, page 231.
"And the thief, Grat, the Swift, who has long been a nuisance in Victoria, has fled the town, obedient to your command."
Rogue of Gor, page 245.
Free and slave alike, please read the full rules of this home prior to entry (a link is found at the top of this page). It is also suggested that you read about and familiarize yourself with our pulldowns so that you will understand the use of them.
There is no OOC in this room. This means that you are responsible for every word you speak, whether while in-character or out-of-character or in PM, and will be held accountable in-character.
Port Victoria is MPG friendly. Adherence to PoD rules and regulations for being an MPG player must be followed.
Port Victoria is NOT a cultural hub city. Therefore, free and slave, respect the culture that Port Victoria is. Port Victoria is not Torvaldsland Or the Barrens. Or the Tahari. Or the Plains. Or the land of the Innuit.
Slaves will refer to all men as MASTER. Port Victoria is not Torvaldsland. Therefore the use of “Jarl” is inappropriate here. Free men must respect this rule as well.
There are NO HOME COLLARS in Port Victoria. See the Rules page for specific details on being a slave in the home. Badgering a free person to collar you will get you permanently banned.
Ignorance is not an excuse.
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