Posted on December 4, 2025 in Steel-Realms
The Ten Box Chemists of Klyben is a large two story building with a stone base on the NE edge of the City of Klyben in the Principality of Rhylan – at the influx of Killean’s Stream to the city. It advertises itself as as “Alchemists of Note” and does not advertise its function as the only publicly approachable office for the Rhylander Green Conjurists – though everyone knows its true, though they hardly follow most norms of Occult Culture in the Steel Realms.
The Sigil of the Rhylander Green Conjurists is here.
Here many botanical remedies are sold. There is no place of rest here, but natural salves, balms, and elixirs are made and sold here. The clientele is not your average guard or mercenary either – there are other shops for such things. In perusing the shop, one realizes the natural grown elements are only a base for the more exotic things being sold – the conjuring and transmutation of these things along with more mystical elements is being done. On the back of the chop, extending out into the large 3 acre lot, is a glass covered greenhouse.
Seeking an Audience: Sira Greensmein, Herald of the Rhylander Green Conjurist. This figure can be found at Ten Box Chemists of Klyben – it is the only place that the order can be contacted by people outside of the nobility of Rhyl.
Main Facilities: In addition to the shop, greenhouse, drying room (all records are kept here as well, in a locking chest), stock room, normal formulary, and cloak room, there is a locked occult lab of about 30×40 where the magi work their special compounding and formulary. Upstairs is a bedroom and Green Conjurists’ rooms.
Buyers Mark: Drawing the interests of the less mundane is part of a means of tracking occultists who are in the area, seeking them out, and assessing who may potentially cause trouble.
Outdoor Garden: Behind it, and coming around the east side is a large stone walled field with many raised garden boxes of stone, shrubs, trees, and basins of water. People often mistake it for a Briarwood of some sort, though there are many signs warning not to cross into it; It is guarded by swarms of insects!
Staff: During the day, a guard stands in the shop and another in the garden. There is a staff of about 3-4 at any given time (that stay upstairs), as well as a staff of 2-3 gardeners working outdoors, in the drying room or the greenhouse.
The wares are the high end items made by the conjurists from materials they grow on site, harvest from the Great Forest of Rhyl, and materials they gain through their conjuring. It is said that the druids of the Great Forest of Rhyl work with the conjurists to call for these things.
Competing Occultists: The competing occultist specialty shops operate out of separate districts to ensure there is no clash. The Ten Box Chemists (Rhylander Green Conjurists) in the South District of Klyben and Quizman’s of Klyben out of the North District of Klyben. The Gangs of Klyben stay away from both.
Above the chemist shop is the living area for about 7-8 people. It is a large, open loft like area with thin dividing walls. At the top of the stairs is a windowed room on the east side. Here are comfortable chairs, a desk with a writing kit, a map of Rhyl a few sculptures and paintings and a glass bar set.
Seeking Audience:Those coming to seek an audience must request this office by its full name: “Sira Greensmein, Herald of the Rhylander Green Conjurist”. They will be asked to fully explain why. Somehow a decision is made to hear those seeking an audience immediately after a quick consultation (in an unknown method), or they are sent away. The same person who greeted visitors may be the person who delivers the news, or someone different; The person filling the role of speaking for the order in granting an audience as the “Sira Greensmein” may be different or the same as well. This process is enigmatic to outsiders.
The title of “Sira Greensmein” is one that is non-specific. Although most refer to them as a herald, and it borrows somewhat from the title of “Heraldsmein” in the lexicon of the realms, the Green Conjurist themselves never use it.
There is no formal hall or chamber for the loose order, but there is a place upstairs where they have meetings and audiences with outsiders – the Hall of the Broken Mirrors. Nothing has ever been able to scry or extract information of anything that has gone on here. Petitioners are rare, they are not an order for hire and dont engage publicly in politics or seek fame (though a few of their numbers have become famous historically).
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Defending Klyben: The Rhylander Green Conjurists home at the Ten Box Chemists in the City of Klyben keeps Honeystone Pollen to put in Killean’s Stream to destroy animations of the Lich Lords should it ever be required to defend the area.
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All of the Duke’s heralds are trained in the Heraldic Boreal Tradition.
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All of the Duke’s heralds are trained in the Heraldic Boreal Tradition.
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All of the Duke’s heralds are trained in the Heraldic Boreal Tradition.