Staghelm

A magical city of elves ripped from its former home in the Feywild during The Spellplague  to its new home in Firehearth around 1385 AF.
The city is known for its incredible craftsman of all kinds who make highly refined exotic wears, including weapons, armor, tools, spells, and potions. Various refined resources are also produced there, such as ingots, flour and hide. Wears and resources produced in Staghelm are quite literally other-worldly, and cannot be found anywhere else on Firehearth.

Demographics

Staghelm is made up of exclusively elves, with about 20% of them being Eladrin. Staghelm is the only place in Firehearth where Eladrin live.
The citizens of Staghelm are mostly well off. Poverty is very low in the city

Government

The Court of Staghelm is the governing body of the city, headed by the Queen of Staghelm. Aside from the queen, the court consists of 12 democratically elected representatives of Staghelm. New pieces of legislation start when a member of The Court of Staghelm proposes a new bill. The bill must either be signed by the guild that ties most directly to the bill or by the Queen of Staghelm. The Court of Staghelm meets on 9th and 10th of each tenday. When voting on a bill, the Queen of Staghelm's vote counts as 3. This means that the opposing side of the Queen of Staghelm needs at least 8 opponents of the bill, making the queen able to break a 6:6 tie, or overturn a 5:7 minority. The Queen of Staghelm's opinion is highly respected and the people of Staghelm are mostly unified in terms of goals, so it is a rare occurrence the Queen of Staghelm to be in either of those positions.
The Queen seeks to elevate the position of their people on the international stage by expertly negotiating trade deals. As such, Staghelm is seen as a neutral trading hub throughout the continent.

Defences

Staghelm's magnificent pearl white walls, with gold lined towers and emerald green bases also boast a sizable blue crystal every 15 feet. These gems act as magic missile turrets, which can be activated by the high mage

Industry & Trade

Staghelm initially did everything it could to be as self-sustaining as possible, as the inhabitants are very weary and distrusting of outsiders. However, after just a few short years since the city appeared in Firehearth, reality hit as the elves ran low on their resources and struggled adapting to the ones in Firehearth. Since then, Staghelm has slowly become a major importer of hard to process resources as they work on re-doing their infrastructure towards the resources of their new plane. Staghelm sells unique food, drink, armor, weapons, equipment and magical items unlike any in Firehearth. All goods in Staghelm are made with ingredients and techniques found exclusively in The Feywild, thus making them extremely sought after and valuable.
When Staghelm was still in The Feywild, it was a large trade center with many exotic highly refined goods.
Staghelm's strongest sectors include:

• Forging magical and non-magical weapons, armor and tools
• Refining raw metals, crops and animal goods into workable materials such as ingots, flour and hide
• Performing, documenting and publishing scientific studies on various topics such as creatures, medicines and the world
• Producing spellbooks, potions and other magical items
• Inventing new spells, potions and other magical items
• Growing exotic magical plants

Staghelm is weak at:

• Gathering natural resources, such as wood, crops and animal goods
• Combat experience
• Lack of army. Staghelm has been at peace for its entire existence, as a neutral party producing high quality goods. While in The Feywild, Staghelm was rumored to be protected by a fierce archfey know as Storhjort. Now, his protection is now very minimal due to the archfey being on a different plane.
• Lack of knowledge about the

Infrastructure

Production facilities:

• Great forges- forgesmith hall
• Armor smith
• Magic forge
• Great ore refinery
• Great mills to refine wheat into flour
• Paper mills
• Publishing house
• Tanneries
• Leather workers
• Clothing shops
• Textile mills
• Clothing makers

Districts

Staghelm is a city in the shape of a circle, surrounded by great walls. There are many districts of Staghelm

• Merchant's District
• Forging District
• Craftsman District
• Research District
• Entertainment District
• Governmental District
• Nobility District
• Nature District
• Common District

Assets

Staghelm has an annual tax of 12% of all income for all residents. Non-residents pay a 5% sales tax on every purchase in the city. Residents are not subject to this tax
Alternatively, certain skilled businesses of individuals can be tasked to give The Court of Staghelm a particular item, or perform a particular service as a way to waive some or all of their taxes. For example, The Court of Staghelm may requisition the blacksmith to produce a certain number of armor suits instead of paying in coin
The city's treasury is almost completely full. The only reason it is not is because the city's heavy investments in the infrastructure and its citizens

History

Staghelm was pulled into Avagonus during The Spellplague  from its home in The Feywild due to temporal rifts from the two planes being pulled very close together.">

Architecture

Most high end buildings are made of polished stone, with ceramic tile roofs. Decorative wood trim outlines the walls on the outside and also trims the sides of the roofs. A decorative log runs straight acroos the center of the roofs
Lower end buildings are made of stone blocks on lower floors, with wooden upper floors and wooden shingles
Industrial buildings are made of a strange high grade steel-like material that isn't from this world. It is sage green, and has a strange matte look that reflects minimal light
The streets are made of cobblestone. Frequent road construction and building renovations can be seen while walking around

Maps

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  Map of Staghelm

Primary Language
Elvish Secondary Language
Common

Founding Date

1600 BF

Alternative Name(s)

The City of The Wilds

Type

City

Population

40,000

Inhabitant Demonym

Staggers (Derrogatory)

Location under

Caerus

Owner/Ruler

Ashryn Torrel

Ruling/Owning Rank

Queen of Staghelm

Owning Organization

The Court of Staghelm

Characters in Location

• Ashryn Torrel