Flamekeep

One of the most advanced cities in the world, Flamekeep is the beating heart of Saether-based magitech on Khorvaire. As the seat of power for Thrane, Flamekeep is home to the Council of Flamekeepers, the ruling congregation of wizards that hold sway over the lands. A city of multiple academy towers and engineering factories, Flamekeep is saturated with the lime-like scent of energized Saether so saturated is the city with magitech. Known for its magical & technological traditions, the city has many academies where aspiring students from noble & merchant families are sent to be trained. Many of these academies allow students from lands other than Thrane but do so at higher rates or with considerably greater scrutiny. Many merchants travel to and from Flamekeep both in opulent skyships as well as barely functioning flying junkers to gather items for sale in other parts of the continent, always eager to move the latest magitech wonders. These items are highly prized not only by the regular citizenry of other cities & towns but also their wizards & engineers who seek to learn by emulating and reproducing or even improving such items.
Surrounded by walls built decades before reinforced by Saether-fields, Flamekeep is secure but inflexible, its swelling population causing it to suffer over the last two decades with ever-increasing costs to simply live within the city. Though it has dazzling sectors for trade and living, Flamekeep is also rife now with overcrowding, poverty and homelessness in other places within the city's walls. Now, the streets are often filled with gangs riding saethercycles being pursued by guards and unsavory figures dealing in illicit goods when the sun goes down. The vast sewers of the city, built alongside the Saether-ways have also become infested with creatures not only born from Illithid science but also from magitech pollution. All in all, the shining jewel of Thrane has become a bit tarnished since the Invasion but now seeks to rectify that with projects to reclaim and build up various satellite areas around Flamekeep as part of the 'Spark Project'.
Though the Council of Flamekeepers controls Thrane, the city of Flamekeep itself is generally lead by Louis Berliz VI of the Berliz line that has held a relative uninterrupted claim to the throne of Thrane for over four hundred years. Unlike many past kings, Louis VI is relatively active in leadership of his country thanks to his closeness to his advisor Zul, who lead Thrane's wizards during the Invasion.

Type

Large city