"A Blood Bath in Beit Castan" (Session 3) Beit Castan is only recently a proper city in Zeif. Originally, it was a coastal settlement belonging to the Bakhoury Coast, but In 3046 BH (387 CY), the town came fully under Zeifan administration when its famed Amir, the last of his kind, proclaimed a self ­exile and departed from the city. Some believe that this event was the first leading to the eventual subjugation of the Bakhoury Coast, which is now a Zeif controlled hotbed of civil unrest. Regardless of its implications, the exile of the Last Amir granted Zeif a new city that became its most westerly settlement along the coast, and provided it with continued riches to fund its great power. Beit Castan is renown for its pearl bed, which lies all over its harbor and beyond. Pearls from here are acclaimed to be some of the largest and richest found throughout the Gulf and the rest of Zeif's coastline. The city has made quite a trade of it, selling its wares mainly to customers from the Bakhoury Coast as well as exporting them east to the aristocracies of Zeif's neighbors.

Beit Castan is also a port of illegal smuggling. The Dusk Lash is said to be headquartered here, and is involved in the illegal transport of many goods from the unstable emirates of the Gulf and the Bakhoury Coast. The criminals of Zeif know that Beit Castan is a good place to rid themselves of loot, and a good place to retrieve items not normally available to the common people of the Sultanate. The Dusk Lash is said to be tied to the faith of Xan Yae, and the Goddess is a popular choice of worship along the Gulf's coasts. She has a temple in Beit Castan which is on the docks, and the Dusk Lash makes a headquarters of a small buildings which adjoins it.