Dragon Towers

​District Type: Guildhall district Buildings: Dragonmarked house enclaves (12), trade guild halls (20), average lodging (20), average food (35), upscale trades (20), average trades (50), poor trades (15), upscale services (20), average services (35), poor services (13), average residences (120) First Impression: Wealthy and important-looking people parade through this district with escorts of sycophants and well-armed guards. The sigils of the dragonmarked houses are in abundant view. Social Class: Middle class If the dragonmarked houses held power to rival nations, then the district of Dragon Towers was where they maintained their embassies and consulates. Dozens of shops promised the mystical services of the true heirs of each house, and beyond these little businesses lay the enclaves of the houses themselves—massive towers where the heirs lived and learned their arts. The Great Healing Hall of House Jorasco is the largest in Breland, and Sivis Tower was a nexus for communication across Khorvaire. The services of the dragonmarked were expensive, and the people who thronged the streets were not the peasants and beggars found on the lower level. Here aristocrats rubbed shoulders with knights and merchant princes. The street was a tapestry of colorful silk, and the air filled with the scents of rare perfumes and the exotic spices of the Ghallanda vendors. Enclaves belonging to the thirteen dragonmarked houses can be found in this district. Of the thirteen, the most important in Sharn are House Tharashk, House Cannith, House Kundarak, House Sivis, and House Lyrandar. Those five families have the largest enclaves in Dragon Towers and smaller outposts in the areas of the city where they do most of their business. Tharashk Enclave: The sprawling complex of Tharashk Enclave occupies several levels of three towers near the Sword Point district. A significant percentage of Sharn’s half-orc population lives in this complex. Yevgen Torrn leads the enclave and operates as a very expensive inquisitive-for-hire. Globe Information Agency: This inquisitive agency run by Kava Velderan, a dragonmarked heir of the House of Finding, has ties to House Tharashk. Kava prides herself on her ability to find anyone, anywhere. Her agents escalate cases to her attention only when they prove to be nearly impossible to solve. Cannith Enclave: Cannith Enclave inhabits the whole of Cannith Tower. In both Highest Towers (Upper Central) and Granite Halls (Lower Central), members of House Cannith’s Fabricators’ Guild operate artisans’ shops (upscale trades) in the tower. Merrix d’Cannith leads House Cannith’s Sharn enclave. Lyrandar Enclave: The Lyrandar Enclave in Dragon Towers is relatively small, but only because so much of the house’s operations are housed elsewhere in Sharn. They have several offices in the waterfront districts of Cliffside and Lower Dura to manage the house’s shipping interests and a large office near the airship docking tower at the top of Lyrandar Tower, in the Highest Towers district, manages the house’s air transport business. In addition, though House Orien controls the land shipping in and out of the city, House Lyrandar has offices in Lower Tavick’s Landing to facilitate trade between the two houses. Solia d’Lyrandar oversees the enclave and supervises the operations of all the smaller offices, as well. Kundarak Enclave: Kundarak Enclave can be found in Sivis Tower, as the house commands a significant presence in the Korranath district (in Upper Central), where the Kundarak Bank is located. Even so, Kundarak Enclave is large and impressive, with marble columns supporting lofty ceilings with dazzling mosaics of precious metals and stones. Security, as one might expect from the House of Warding, is exceptionally tight. Daphanë d’Kundarak oversees the enclave but spends most of her time at the Kundarak Bank. Sivis Enclave: The Sivis Enclave, tightly enclosed in Sivis Tower, shares space with the dwarves of House Kundarak. It has equally grand architecture and ornamentation, though motifs of writing and calligraphic engraving run through the decoration of the Sivis locations. Solirion Torralyn d’Sivis is the enclave head and supervises the Speakers’ Guild operations in Sharn. House Tarkanan: House Tarkanan is a criminal organization structured in mockery of the dragonmarked houses. Its leader, Thora Tavin, is not related to the dragonmarked houses, though she does have an aberrant mark—a fact that she keeps secret from even her closest associates. Thora’s residence, a spacious mansion nestled among the towers of the house enclaves, serves as the secret headquarters of her organization. From here, she directs a range of criminal and questionable activities throughout the city, with a particular focus on burglary, assassination, forgery, and loan sharking.​