Any recommendations on Notchet-related materials?

[Shimozakura]

I'm preparing to run a campaign for a party of low-life criminals and/or dark cult worshippers and I have decided to set it in Notchet because of the metropolitan feel, the Necropolis and the inter-grandmotherly scheming inherent in the setting. I'm tapping heavily to the Guide for setting-related information, but there doesn't seem to be much there to get along on. Could anybody suggest me any good sources on Notchet? City maps would be especially helpful.

[metcalph]

Esrolia: the Land of 10,000 Goddesses in the Stafford Library at Chaosium is a good feel for history.

There's also a current map of Nochet on the Chaosium site, I think.

[Runeblogger]

Hi,

Perhaps you already have this sketch of the city:

https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com/nochet-city-of-queens/

And here there's a campaign chronicle:

https://rpggeek.com/thread/1499941/ic-heroquest-glorantha-nochet-campaign-pt-1#

Two more maps here:

http://www.celtic-webs.com/glorantha/middle/maps/maps.html

Edited April 26, 2020 by Runeblogger

[jajagappa]

4 hours ago, Shimozakura said:

I'm preparing to run a campaign for a party of low-life criminals and/or dark cult worshippers and I have decided to set it in Notchet because of the metropolitan feel, the Necropolis and the inter-grandmotherly scheming inherent in the setting. I'm tapping heavily to the Guide for setting-related information, but there doesn't seem to be much there to get along on. Could anybody suggest me any good sources on Notchet? City maps would be especially helpful.

@Runeblogger already noted the main link which will lead you here: https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com/home/catalogue/publishers/to-sort-categorise/nochet-city-of-queens/

That provides the full city map for Nochet as well as the overviews of each neighborhood.

There's a few other bits and pieces around on this forum if you search on "Nochet" including some notes on the major clans (aka "Houses") and their interactions.

As a quick note, the lower class neighborhoods of Deresagar, Tershis, and Tendayvora all have criminal gangs (usually supported by some clan).  If you think of them as "organized" crime headed by the clan Grandmother, you'll have the right feel (and they are jealous of their "prerogatives").  The neighborhood of Sarli is like a city within a city of Sartarites and Heortlings who variously went to Nochet to start new life, as refugees, or other primarily over the last generation.  Think of them as new usurpers encroaching on the traditional domains of clans in the other neighborhoods.  The zone between Tershis and Sarli is a particular "battleground" for local street gangs.  

The neighborhood of Nolerian is rich.  The neighborhood of Dearno has both rich areas and working class areas (and also contains the Dark Warrens where the trolls live).  Helamta is the foreigner's area with folk from all over the world (and includes the varied docks).  The Sacred City is the domain of the Queen and largely set apart from the rest with ancient walls, clans that focus on all the religious trappings, etc. (I like to think of it as something old and ancient and very ritualistic like in the Gormenghast novels). 

Lots of opportunities for thieves and criminals.