A Tale of Ties and Binds - Appendix

A list of characters, their attributes, and the factions:

Characters

Household of the Scylla:

Crest: A nubile girl locked in the jaws of a five-headed serpent, it's fifth head between her legs, on a pale blue ocean

Ship: The Sapphic Scylla.

Penelope: The Matriarch of the Household. Dark cherry-red hair that graces just past her shoulders and licks the tips of her nipples, a generous but not unwieldy bust, an oval face of smooth skin and a heart-shaped backside. Proud and clever and loyal to the Queen but not overly ambitious.

Lydia: Heiress to Scylla and Penelope's immediate younger sister. Auburn hair, as beautiful as Aphrodite, bright eyes. Dutiful and loyal to her friends but a cruel mistress to her enemies.

Alexis the Binder: Scylla sister-in-arms. A firm and voluptuous chest, midnight hair and a slender waist. Modest and caring former champion of the games wherein she earned her title.

Daphne: Scylla sister-in-arms. Flame-haired, eyes as green and large as the Macedonian plains, firm breasts and nymph-like features. Hot tempered and fiercely loyal to Penelope.

Logical Phallusy: Phallic slave. Black beard, heavily muscled and large of cock. A polite and well-spoken slave who talks in third person, formerly in the service of Queen Astrid and gifted to Penelope.

Household of the Celtic Knot:

Crest: A leathern coil intricately woven into the barbarian art form of binding their prisoners using every possible anchor point, a golden-haired Illyrian maiden locked tight in the confines of the coarse twine.

Ship: The Celtic Knot.

Titania, aka 'the Celt': The Matriarch of the Household. Blonde hair, absolutely stunning features, the shortest skirt of all Thessalian soldiers (a sign of her courage) with completely unscathed and highly polished armour. A cunning politician, a wealthy slave trader and a fearsome warrioress.

Unnamed phallic slave: Phallic slave. A bald and brutishly muscled Spartan. Not talkative (but gagged anyway), formerly in Queen Astrid's service but later gifted to Titania.

Serena: Heiress to Celtic Knot and Titania's immediate younger sister. Like her older sister, blonde hair and stunning, short skirt, only nineteen and with a very Spartan physique. Not as arrogant as the rest of her household, excellent mind for mechanics.

Guard: A sworn sister of the Celtic Knot and a distant relative to Titania. Short blonde hair, blue eyes and rosy cheeks. Silent because she always wears a gag with a thick twist of white linen (she enjoys it).

The Household of the Trident:

Crest: A collared trident on a dark blue ocean.

Ship: Poseidon's Mistress.

Cassia: Former Matriarch of the Household (now in Queen Astrid's harem). Dark brown hair in a long braid, taller than most. Dignified and pragmatic.

Megan: New Matriarch of the Household. A reflection of her older sister - tall, long black hair, and a proud stance.

Household of the Whip:

Crest: An iron-studded whip on a midnight background.

Ship: Helen's Whip.

Queen Astrid (Thessaly): Matriarch of the Thessalian families, Binder of Rivals and Slaver of Sisters. Very long chestnut brown hair bound at the tip in an iron ring, a decently firm bust that puts other queens to shame, the most desired captive in all of the Aegean. A wise queen but as materialistic as the rest of them, easily distracted by gifts.

Royal steward: A slave in service to Queen Astrid. Brown hair in a braid, short stature. A polite and respectful servant with a very loud voice fit for heralding.

Household of the Thunderbolt:

Crest: A thunderbolt thrust between round spherical breasts on a field of silver clouds.

Ship: Hera's Glory (went missing during a storm on the return voyage from Lesbos).

Marissa: Acting Matriarch of the Household in her sister's absence. A short woman, olive-skinned and bright of eye with contrasting dark hair. Pious and praying to the goddesses for the safe return of her older sister.

Ellisia: Misplaced Matriarch of the Household. An olive skinned beauty, short with bright eyes and a brighter smile, black hair that turns maroon in the light, and hazel coloured eyes. Extremely flirtatious with a very physical style of worshipping the goddess Hera.

Daughters of Hera: Ellisia's crew of sisters-in-arms. Stacia, Helen, Leah and Circe; all of a height with their captain and hair with a limited range between dark brown and dark red. A resilient bunch of women, the first into any fight despite having lost half their remaining crew to pirates.

Histri Tribe:

Ceinlys Lachtnatorix: The Warlady of the Histri Tribe. Huge exposed breasts, wears a phallic bronze-horned helm with fur sleeves and fur leggings. Speaks a guttural barbarian language and a hater of all things 'civilised' (with the exception of the Celtic Knot family because she doesn't consider them Greeks).

Slaves of the Histri:

Adara: A Spartan slave. Black hair, tall, strong and Spartan physique (hourglass figure). Seldom talks (laconic when she does) and serves her mistresses without complaint.

Zia: A Dacian slave. Light brown/blonde hair with a small build. Hates all Greeks with underdog ferocity and is multilingual (Celtic dialects & Greek).

Picentes:

Ayrobix: A tribeswoman. Shorter than most, slight of build with small breasts and hips, a mop of messy blondish brown hair, flexible and in her late teens. Fast and high spirited.

Aysthetix: A tribeswoman. Very beautiful blonde with ideal features. Accepts without complaint any bondage that comes her way.

Merinthofobix: A tribeswoman. Paranoid by nature with brown hair. Terrified of being bound.

Annysthetix: A middle aged travelling druid. Greying frizzy hair and wears clothing made from twigs and grass and leaves. Eccentric yet lives alone, skilled as an herbalist.

Narcholeptix: The Picene Chieftess. A face full of wisdom and sporting cherry-red hair. Highly protective of her tribe.

Etruscans:

Prisis of Hathisna: An Etruscan noblewoman and former mistress of Tuniur. Big eyes the colour and shape of almonds, a warm smile, small and round breasts, light brown hair that cascades like waves down to the top of her pert arse. Kind, polite, gullible and accepting of her fate.

Semla the Wise: A priestess of Turan (Etruscan goddess of tits and wine). Well-dressed, long black hair tied and woven into a beehive, late thirties and heavily jewelled. She is stubborn and ultimately appeals to the goddesses and tradition in an arrogant way.

General Crisitha: The commander of the Etruscan army in Velzna. An invitingly fleshy build, soft and juicy breasts and arse, voluptuous, wavy dark brown hair, deep brown eyes. She is strong-willed and laconic.

Tuniur: Leader of the escaped phallic slaves. Mop of black hair, proud, and omniscient bright green eyes. He is a mastermind and slightly sociopathic.

Rath: An escaped phallic slave. Broad shoulders, barrel-chested, hairless, thick brow, very deep yet quiet voice. Violent and brutish.

Tyrrhenus: An escaped phallic slave. Athletic build, short brown hair, slight beard and a dusting of chest hair, bright smile (but behind it is nothing but arrogance). He is misogynistic, loud and obnoxious.

The Sirens:

A pair of twins who are the sole inhabitants of an island surrounded by hazardous cliffs. They lure sailors to their island and capture them, binding them to racks and dripping melted wax onto their naked bodies to take musical inspiration from their howls of pain. The Sirens are physically quick, mentally childish, incredibly beautiful and unbelievably strong with hair that takes on unnatural colours.

Celaeno: A flutist.

Ligeia: A lyrist.

Inhabitants of the Three-Cornered Land (Sicily):

Teenage Pirates: Wear skirts and bustiers made of ragged strips of leather that only narrowly cover the parts they are meant to cover, tied together with string. They twist and oil their hair to form long thick dreadlocks and their skin is blackened with ash to hide them in the night. Not one of them is older than sixteen.

Polyphamorous: A Cyclops. Tall as two houses and thicker-chested than any tree, hands to crush the sun, feet to squish the moon, and a pair of beady little eyes so close together they seem as one, a thick and overarching brow, wears a sheepskin loincloth. He has an unfortunate mix of loneliness and foolishness, trusting towards the teenage pirates and accepts gifts (gold, wine and women) from them, saves the gold for his Beloved (the female creature he's sure exists somewhere), drinks the wine to distract himself from her absence, eats the women sacrifices and lives in a cave below a smoking mountain (Mt. Etna).

Cretans:

Queen Adrianne (Crete): Grand Matriarch of the Minoan Three, Mother of Demigods and Keeper of the Peace. Dirty blonde/brown hair which is tied in a messy bun behind her head, bright hazel eyes, wears a cowskin pelt around her shoulders. She claims to have given birth to a phallic-bull hybrid after being gifted Zeus by Hera, more cunning than she looks, deceptive and paranoid. The sigil of her household is a bull's head with a pair of collared and chained slaves riding on the horns.

Adrianne's royal steward: A slave in service to Queen Adrianne. Brown hair, with a thick linen rag tied around her neck which can be used to gag her with if being annoying. A polite and respectful servant.
The Minotaur: The Queen's son. Wears a bull's head helm and hoof-shaped bronze grieves. An extremely horny phallic who resides in the labyrinth wherein he hunts the prisoners (escaped slaves) who are sent his way.

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Factions

Trojans:

Tend to keep their slaves as furniture (tables, chairs, beds, etc.). They don't have much for a military so they instead employ mercenaries (such as Scythians). They're better equipped than they should be, with scaled leather armour and crescent-shaped shields. They have an outpost at Mytilene on the island of Lesbos.

Thracians:

Are a coalition of autonomous Thracian tribes occupying the lands north of Greece. The Thracians despised Greeks, but hated each other enough that they'd never unified into a single fighting force, until now. They are fierce fighters and favour using lassos above all else. Having trained on each other from a young age, Thracians can hurl a lasso as far as the rope would reach and snag a feather from a swan's tail without the swan knowing about it.

Scythians:

Are excellent riders from the northern steppe (Ukraine) who often hire themselves out as mercenaries. Said to lie with their horses to make offspring with the bodies of women and minds of beasts, they don't take phallic slaves and ride wearing only loincloths.

Spartans:

Take phallic slaves only if they won them in battle so each generation gets stronger and stronger. Their women are wide of hip and busty - the standard Spartan physique. They are an isolationist state, rarely involving themselves in the affairs of others, but strike hard with an iron fist if provoked. Every Spartan woman is a soldier, attended by the Helot slaves they acquire from the surrounding vassal territories.

Egyptians:

Keep their highborn women in constant mummification, only the breasts and groin and head are left uncovered. Slaves wear nothing below the waist and are gagged with papyrus bits.

Histri:

Their hierarchy is based on breast size, women wear furs all over except their chests, ropes are made from crudely twisted furs. They are a tribe of pirates that plunder and steal beautiful trophies from coastal villages along the north Adriatic.

Picentes:

Are a small tribe of women living on the Adriatic coastline (near San Marino in Italy). Unlikely warrioresses, they are periodically enslaved by the Histri. To avoid being enslaved, they often bind 'bribes' to poles along the beach when they see sails on the horizon in the hope that the Histri will leave them alone (which doesn't work if the Histri feel they need practice).

Messapians:

Are an old rival from a war over a decade ago. The war concluded in their defeat (though Thessaly was only slightly less fatigued) and they have remained bitter ever since, holding a fragile truce. They occupy the 'heel' of the Italian peninsula (Salento/Calabria).

Etruscans:

Located in northern Italy, the Etruscans are a religious civilisation that builds grand walled cities on hilltops. Due to the gullibility of some, they've had recent troubles with phallic slave rebellions. The soldiers are finely armoured and powerfully armed - wearing triangular bronze breast plates and plumed helms with bright pink crests. Their shields are shiny hemispherical bronze and they arm themselves with tall spears tipped with phallic-shaped heads.

Cretans:

Are an old and proud civilisation located at the base of the Aegean Sea. Their isolation from mainland Greece has made them bitter about the military exploits of the other Greek states.

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