ortyna is a small capitulum of Chios, in the ruins of ancient Gortyna near the south coast of Crete. Sancta sit over the ruins of Roman baths, near the old Roman odeon. A limewashed stone villa nearby houses guests and servants. The odeon and buildings are shaded and surrounded by a large grove of ancient olive trees.

Some distance away the ruins of a temple to Apollo have been partially renovated, and a temple to Egyptian gods has been cleared of rubble.

The immediate region suffers from an infestation of dangerous humanoid creatures called katakhanas, and few leave the olive grove at night.

Archimagus Cnaeus Guernici
white-haired old man wearing an unadorned gray robe, who walks with the aid of a staff

Euphemia Trise Jerbitonis
beautiful middle-aged woman with graying dark brown hair, wearing a simple white dress, palla, and shawl

Konrad Albrecht Jerbitonis
middle-aged man with blue eyes and long blonde hair gathered in a tail, with a few strands of gray beginning to show; he wears a white long-sleeved silk tunic under an embroidered yellow cotton vest, with blue cotton trousers and soft leather boots

Nysa
deaf-mute woman who serves as a scribe

Perterrius Ex Miscellanea
man wearing a simple brown robe