Rothum's Bay
The capital city of the Midlands, Rothum's Bay is the sixth most populous city in Austur, but the third oldest.
Rothum's Bay is an unusual case within Austur in that the city is considered socially, legally, and culturally indistinguishable from the actual body of water. This is because every meter of coastline around the bay is dedicated to erwaan farming. There is a Council Hall, the Sita Alorum, and the various other trappings of a capital in the city centre at the very south of the bay, but the rest of the cities residences, guild halls, ports, shops, and everything else, is spread around the bay in a narrow strip. Even the villas of the guild masters, envoys and various other senior dignitaries of the city are located on the islands in the middle of the bay.
Unusually, though for obvious practical reasons, Rothum's Bay is the only capital on the River Rothum to not have a canal system for travelling quickly within the city. Instead, there are all manner of small craft that travel quickly back and forth across the calm waters of the bay, navigating between the erwaan farms.
History
Rothum's Bay is one of the oldest settlement in Austur. It was first settled within the lifetime of the Magus himself, and had already established itself as an erwaan farming community before the Sunder.
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