Cappadolia, City State of

This massive city is located at the Southern edge of the Northern Plateau, it is an important hub of airship trade between the remnants of the Thamassan Empire, Matango, and the Eastern Plateau. Humans form a solid majority in the city but every humanoid species is represented there. In absolute numbers, the city boasts the largest population of slaves on the continent of Acarn. Dwarves and Elves form the largest racial blocks among the slaves population, many of them having lived through the fall of the various Dwarven and Elven kingdoms during the Age of Emancipation.

Cappadolia is ruled by the Wraith Lord Wolnir and his cohort of undead lieutenants. It was the last city of the Northern Plateau to declare its independence from the Empire in 3023, taking with it a large chuck of parsley populated land. Wolnir and Amadeus always had a close relationship and the later recognized the pragmatic choice of letting Cappadolia go. The city remains the closest ally to the Empire.

Over the two centuries of his rule, a quasi-cult grew around Wolnir called the Lightless Stars . The membership of the cult are mostly humans, though not exclusively. Members proudly wear a red armband with a black four-point star upon it. Since the independence of Cappadolia, membership in the Lightless Stars has become a mandatory condition of employment in the government.

The city is renowned for its embrace of blood sports including gladiatorial combat, monster fighting and public executions. It even developed a very popular capture-the-flag variant to gladiatorial combat which has been adopted in some other cities in Acarn.