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Azek
"City of Melting Spires"
Azek is an ancient fortress-city between two rivers and is one of Korovia's most well defended cities. Despite having a small City Guard and even smaller Militia, the city is notorious for its ability to withstand a siege. Its tall walls and the two rivers effectively block conventional warfare. Indeed, the only times Azek has ever fallen to any enemies was due to large sums of magical aid. Not that it will happen again, as Azek has its own archmage: Lady Vidrazia, the ruler of Azek. Lady Vidrazia was one of the first lords and ladies of Korovia to swear fealty to Queen Kasiya. The human evoker was once notorious for her fireballs and lightning bolts, but has since simmered down and become the respectable (and feared) leader of Azek. With her in charge, Azek has survived several wars and sieges involving enemy wizards, all of which were dealt with swiftly by the 'Lady in Red'. The Lady is well known for wearing red robes all the time. She owns, but does not teach at, Azek's Academy of the Arcane (a school for wizards and sorcerers to practice their skills). Many cryomancers and Blizzards also study at the Academy of the Arcane. There is sparse farming around Azek, the land has only recently become arable, and thus most of the food in Azek is meat from hunters and fish caught in the rivers. Merchants do bring extra food & supplies this far north, using the rivers for transportation, but there is a shortage of such merchants and thus the cost of food from the south is more expensive. Azek boasts impressive architecture, composed of stone, wood and ice. Many of the city's tallest spires are rebuilt annually using magic because they melt during the summer time and need to be rebuilt with the help of cryomancers in late Autumn. The city is featured in the following works:
During the Dark Ages of Korovia the forces of Xarsius, the dark god of bloodlust, sought to capture an Obliteration Stone from Quinias, a subcontinent far to the south, but the frost giantess Vowyeena found the Quinian artifact first. Worried that it might fall into Xarsian hands, she hid the Obliteration Stone in her tomb and entrusted the knowledge of it to a chosen few who were sworn to keep it safe. But the Xarsians never stopped looking for it... Millennia later Good King Margus has been murdered. Assassinated while many of the palace guards had the night off to watch a boxing match featuring Boris the Beautiful. A Xarsian army led by the warlord Derek has captured the city of Oraknev, and Derek has declared himself the new king of Korovia. While the coup was successful, not every city is about to bend the knee and swear fealty. To the east lies the port city of Weyvin, a haven for humans, elves and half-elves co-existing peacefully, and they're not about to bow down to the usurper. To remedy this problem Derek has sent a Lavordian omnimancer, a bounty huntress, and a small army of Xarsians to find the frost giantess's tomb and use the Obliteration Stone to destroy any city that defies the will of King Derek. Determined to stop the Xarsians from finding Vowyeena's tomb, the cryomancer Wren from "The Blizzard's Daughter" teams up with her cryomancer brother Maximilian, the barbarian archer Wrathgar, the necromancer Soljargon, and Ty, a deaf-mute thief from the port city of Weyvin who has a personal vendetta against Xarsians. Can they find the tomb first and secure the Obliteration Stone first? It is said to be guarded by deadly traps... Can Wren and Wrathgar keep their romantic feelings for each other in check whilst searching for the stone? Passions erupt in this Heroic Fantasy Adventure-Romance.
Cities and Towns of Korovia
Roknar ~ Shorin ~ Silekva ~ Sturvek ~ Sylvania ~ Toravek ~ Trollhaven ~ Tuirn ~ Weyvin ~ Yeksereannia ~ Zerburg
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