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"A universal beauty where poet and archaeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The whole world thinks that this city is the most beautiful place on earth." - Edmondo De Amicis, 'Constantinople'.
The bleak, rolling expanse of the Dunheath stretches out to the north of Shaxecan and Latiarin. The rolling, heather and scrub covered hills offer little in the way of sustenance or protection from the elements and the area is sparsely populated.
Rumours and legends abound as to the contents of the ill-explored hills.
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The Fair
The Fair
The party came across a riotous tent fair on the Imperial Highway to the north of Tanat. According to several traders present, the fair had sprung up decades ago at the highway junction and had simply never moved, though many of the inhabitants were transient.
Traders of all sorts, armourers, tinkers, cowherds, mercenaries, charlatans, pilgrims and even a circus troupe or two had made their temporary homes there.
The masked elves, Gwyn & Idoneth were encountered here.
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The Honeyed House
The Honeyed House
Located to the east of Shaxecan, the Honeyed House (owned by the orc Danyal Attar) produces the finest mead and honey in the Beylik.
The party visited the meadery and sampled some of their fine wares, and were able to negotiate a supply of honey and mead to the chocolate factory in order to produce new chocolate flavours.
Though the party witnessed giant bees drifting out of the nearby forest to feed on the numerous wildflowers and blooms surrounding the meadery, they decided to not dig further into the Honeyed House's secrets.
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Latiarin is a large riverside town a day or two's travel north of Shaxecan. The town itself has little of note, save for the large and impressive chocolate works lying just outside of its boundaries on the river. The chocolate works produces the finest and most delicious chocolate in the known world and receives regular shipments of ingredients from the Sweet Fever Land.
Previously owned by Madam Lucilla de Castillo, a cold and hard woman, the chocolate works has come under the ownership of the party after they staged a 'hostile takeover' of the business and secured the backing of the Saffron Consortium to assist in the continued running of the factory, much to the dismay of the Martel Company who had previously been contracted by Madam de Castillo for this purpose.
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The gloomy, whispering depths of the Mournwood lie to the east of the city of Shaxecan. Despite lying in the heart of the Beylik, the region has never been truly tamed and most people keep to the Imperial highways that skirt its edge, even if this does lead them through the Rootmire.
There are rumours that druids roam the forest and that the region is steeped in ancient magic.
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The city of Shaxecan is the capital of the Beylik of Shaxecan and is regarded by many as the crossroads of the world. It is the most populous port city on the Crescent Sea and lies at the junction between the fertile, fractious Ugishi riverlands to the north, the booming trade cities of the southern coast of Izoa and the wintry southern lands of Namavska that lie across the sea.
Magical and mundane academies are clustered in the city and the heavy concentrations of mages experimenting with wytchfire stone have led to a boom in magically powered devices and constructs - foremost among these are the Spirit Engines that now rush between the city's satellites on sturdy railways. The foremost group of this new breed of "Mage-Engineers", known as the Brazen Souls, have the ear of the Pasha and furnish his domain with wondrous arcane devices but their secretive and insular ways disguise their true motives.
As the foremost domain of the Crescent Sea, many wonder how and when Shaxecan will begin to express their dominance on their neighbours.
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Local Map
Local Map
A map of the area surrounding the city of Shaxecan, detailing major settlements, major waterways, the Imperial Highway, known terrain & regions, and sites the party have visited.
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