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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 2187124" data-attributes="member: 13966">Contribution:In the northeast corner of Aleasana's mountains lies the independant city-state Ceb'Rehyn, the sprawling City of Bridges.  Ceb'Rehyn is built high upon a cluster of mountains, with a few extensions into the tiny valleys inbetween, for farming.  The long bridges between mountains, over clefts, and across chasms are often beautifully made and supported by ancient magicks woven by the old Kirks of the Callach Faith.  Particularly long bridges have large platforms at some points, held aloft by magic, upon which small districts are built.  The city-state supports itself mostly through trading and herding, since the City of Bridges has very little arable land.  Ceb'Rehyn is peopled entirely by Aleasani and Northerner humans who have mixed together for many generations, one of the few such alliances.  Cebs get along gruffly with folk of partly-human blood, but have an avid dislike for non-humans.  The City of Bridges is a contender for the throne of Aleasana, though relatively minor compared to the forces of Cassant and Bandesh-Thar, and Cebs hope to bring Northerners into the war on their side, to take the throne for Ceb'Rehyn and its noble House Rehyn.Ceb'Rehyn's current ruler is Jaern Gaston Rehyn, Lord of House Rehyn, Prince Regent of Aleasana, Reeve of Ceb'Rehyn, and High Kirk of the Callach Faith.  He is a stern and dour young man, a proud and commanding leader, honored by his people, as Cebs in general tend to be similar in mindset.  House Rehyn traces its lineage back to a wedding long ago between the younger brother of Aleasana's third king, and the sister of a great Northerner chieftain.  For reasons lost to time, Aleasana's king approved or perhaps even arranged the marriage, binding a large clan of Northerners to part of his own family and vassals.  Likewise, it is no longer known why the Aleasani king gifted his brother with the northeastern lands of Aleasana as an independant, sovereign region, but the area has remained independant ever since the marriage of Aleasani to Northerner.  Scattered thorps in the area came under the rulership of the king's brother, Rehyn Landis Alsea, and his new bride Yolla Kinnasdottr.  Over time, the area was built into a single city-state of scattered bits and pieces, linked by magically-supported bridges.  The Kirks, priests of Callach, still maintain the knowledge of how to float these great platforms and bridges with magic, but they have lost the secrets of raising particularly large or heavy structures in this manner, so in recent generations they have only been able to maintain the current ones and float small new bridge-platforms.The Callach Faith follows the Aleasani god of toil, winter, justice, rulership, and mountains, Callach.  This old religion moved mostly to Ceb'Rehyn around a hundred years after the place became a true city-state, as the Kirks had to leave behind their old temples, for whatever reason; any records about it were lost during the War of Deadly Voices.  Callach is known also as the Justicar, Monolith, the Delver, and Frostlord.  In myth, blizzards are his breath, a trial to test the worthy and smother the wretched, while earthquakes are his angry stirring beneath the earth, his tantrums raging against defilers, criminals, and rebels.  Volcanos are said to be the result of battles between Callach and his brother beneath the earth, and hotsprings are Callach's gift to soothe the faithful and innocent after a victory against his brother in their titanic struggles, to make up for the lava his brother unleashes.</blockquote>

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