Creative Exercise--Aleasana

[Arkhandus]

The mithral mines of the City-State Kallizar are hotly contested, as the military power of Kallizar controls one of the extremely rare sources of mithral ore, giving them quite an advantage over their competition who must use primarily bronze arms and armor.

 

[Tonguez]

Heading South from the Grasslands the Dai river does not reach the sea, instead it gouges ot a deep gorge through the desert before it spends itself in a delta area that the Juni call the Glistening Hand.
The gorge and the delta are a sacred place of the Juni and the most fertile area in the desert with thick groves of olive, coconut palm and papyrus, while crocodiles, dire platypus and other beasts lurk in the many streams.

 

[Sarellion]

I am in a citybuilding mood.

Contribution

The sacred city of Val-Alen is one of the greatest cities of Aleasane at the moment. This is a result of refugees fleeing there and a larger number of Shay who take up permanent residence.

Refugees flee to Val-Alen because the presence of the dragons and the sacred spring which both Shay and Bodai revere, results in a city no one wants to mess with. There are also rumours that Val-Alen still possesses some ancient weapons from the last war.

Elitha´s Spire is a large but lonely mountain, standing proud with in the middle of a wide valley with the city sprawling below on all sides. Three old walls guard the city with a bustling tent-town sprawling outside. The outer wall surrounds the newest quarters, areas built for normal citizens. The grandfather of the current duke commissioned dvergar stonesmiths to build it.

The second ring is the residential area for the well off people. Most areas of the middle city are restricted for the common folk. The public areas in the middle ring are the temples, the council hall and several guild halls for the craftsmen and traders of the city. The middle city shows remnants of old shay architecture and holds a lot of parks and rare plants, prized for their healing properties.

The inner ring is the sacred precinct with the mountain, the tree, the temple of the spring of Sellessenril and some other buildings. This area is mostly shay in appearance with gardens, small canals and murals on the inner side of the ancient wall.
On the opposite side of the spring temple is the palace of the duke. The palace has its own walls that separate it from the rest of the inner area. Only important Shay gain the permit to wander the roots that run along the backside of the palace.

The refugees are the current problem of the city. There are thoughts to form new regiments for warfare or settle them in areas not currently in agricultural use. Duke Kail Ilendus ordered the passguards to restrict access for refugees at the moment but ghas not decided what to do with the people already there.

 

[Conaill]

Time to get back to the beginning...

Aleasana is embroiled in a civil war where the king of Cassant battles for the true crown of the throne against numerous other city states.

The True Crown and the throne that goes with it - the Aleasani Seat - have not had a legitimate owner for centuries. Their origins are lost in time and they seem to be of ancient Shay design, however forged of cold iron. The current whereabouts of the True Crown are unknown. The Aleasani Seat is located in the middle of an imposing black castle on top of a mountain in Virgon, neighboring Cassant in central Aleasani. The Seat seems to grow straight out of the rock of the mountain, and cannot be dislodged by any means. The castle is rumored to be haunted - for the past 400 years, no claimant to the throne has been able to hold the castle for more than a year, or sit in the throne for more than a day. It stands empty and deserted now, not even rats or spiders scurrying through its black corridors.

 

[Conaill]

Heading South from the Grasslands the Dai river does not reach the sea [...]

Uhm... Y'er going to have to explain that one to me. Do you mean the river evaporates into the desert? If so, that would make for a very INfertile salt sea, and be directly against Lalato's earlier post on the Dai River:

The Dai River, from which the Bodai (children of Dai) take their name, flows from the mountains of Aleasana and winds south into the Sun's Anvil Desert before turning east into the Olden Sea.

 

[Sarellion]

Time to get back to the beginning...


The True Crown and the throne that goes with it - the Aleasani Seat - have not had a legitimate owner for centuries. Their origins are lost in time and they seem to be of ancient Shay design, however forged of cold iron. The current whereabouts of the True Crown are unknown. The Aleasani Seat is located in the middle of an imposing black castle on top of a mountain in Virgon, neighboring Cassant in central Aleasani. The Seat seems to grow straight out of the rock of the mountain, and cannot be dislodged by any means. The castle is rumored to be haunted - for the past 400 years, no claimant to the throne has been able to hold the castle for more than a year, or sit in the throne for more than a day. It stands empty and deserted now, not even rats or spiders scurrying through its black corridors.

No capital city?

 

[Conaill]

No capital city?

It might have been once, but nowadays "there are few nations per se; rather a collection of city-states and feuding warlords".

 

[Sarellion]

I draw an informal one up then. The castle seems to be in a very remote location, so I would assume that the king was spending most of the time somewhere more pleasant than a cold castle on a top of a mountain.

 

[Tonguez]

Uhm... Y'er going to have to explain that one to me. Do you mean the river evaporates into the desert? If so, that would make for a very INfertile salt sea, and be directly against Lalato's earlier post on the Dai River:

I meant the Dai River after cutting a narrow gorge through the desert spreads out into a delta made up of a number of lesser channels, these channels reach the Olden sea but are substantially less spectacular the the river from which they stem

 

[Rhialto]

Dvergar society is famed for its scholarship. All Dvergar cities include a library wherein the writings of generations of Dvergar wizards and sages are preserved. While one can find out virtually any piece of information that you want in them, the fact remains that most Dvergar are obsessive and secretive, and naturally the works of generation upon generation of them is both extensive, and insanely difficult to search through, assuming you can even gain access to the library. Which is highly unlikely.