Ashara (ash ARE ah)
City of Coins
According to local history, the city of Ashara was originally founded in 4450sc by an unnamed Polinis prince. He named the city after his favorite wife Asharena. Ashara would be built originally as a fortress port for the Polinis explorers traveling along the Anbar coast. After the decline of the Lhakenwed and the fall of Polis, the city declined as it became independent and spent centuries as little more than a crumbling ruin, who's bricks and blocks were used for fishing huts. The old Polinis docks, that the fishermen used, were all that remained of the city.
The arrival of the Dagmon Viakagi in the latter half of the Lakorthian Age changed this. The raiders put to the sword the males and sons of the town, claiming the women and daughters as their property. Seeing the strategic advantage of the sight, the viakagi established themselves on the peninsula, building a fortress town of their own. Ashara became a staging ground for Tinjir attacks, as well as one of the few permanently settled dagmon locations in the early years of the Viakagi Era.
In the follow centuries, as peace and trade between Dergonhad and Ethae become the focus, Ashara shifted from a military fortress to a diplomatic center. It was in Ashara that the Cavean Union was established. Even in the modern day, with the Unions decentralized government of equal mercantile city-states, Ashara still hosts all dealing with foreign entities. While most of the other cities of the Union focus on certain industries, just as Ranos with horses, or Uosar with glass and Gold, Ashara is a general market town. Its focuses on keeping the coin flowing through all industries has given it the moniker of 'the City of Coins.'
One of the most prominent features of Ashara is the number of nura orbs throughout the city. The city's streets have a reputation across the world of being bright as day, at any hour. This has led to many merchants and business' working at all hours, even through the night. Some even calling it a city that never sleeps.
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