Coranis
Buried beneath the dirt of ages, the city of Coranis slumbers, but never dies. The haphazard constructions of later years have in many places formed a roof over the city, buttressed by the thick stone walls that protected them from the ravages of the howling winds.
Of that which once stood above the walls, only fragments remain. The Citadel is now known as Izarren Lurrak, a hobgoblin fortress, while the Tower of Eyes is but a shattered stump. The Grand Temple vanished during the bloodtide, leaving smooth stone gouged from the walls in the west, while the Directors' Palace has been ruined and buried to the point where no trace remains upon the surface of the land. Occasionally stumps of some minor building that once rested upon the walls are found, however to those who work the fields above, those are the ruins of Coranis, as they take the fabled black stone walls as myth and assume that the city crumbled beneath the harsh weather of the north, as all things tend to do.
Defences
Massive black stone walls surround and divide the city, themselves once festooned with houses, shops, and open markets. Even with the added clutter however, the walls were built to act as the main motorways in the age of Blackmoor, and carts could still drive along the length of the walls four abreast, with two lanes in each direction.
Gates lead out of the city from each district except Cliffside, and also through the dividing walls between districts, with the exception once again being the wall between Cliffside and the Docks. They are thirty feet tall and built of banded adamantium and steel, wide enough for two carts to pass each other with room to spare. Each of the outer gates is tied to a divine sphere, with statues of notable immortals of that sphere flanking it on each side. The dividing gates are instead known by the names of prominent figures in the history of Coranis, with their works carved in frescoes around the gates.
The main entrances to the Webrun beneath the Directors' Palace are also protected by smaller gates of adamantium, one to each district and known only by their districts' names.
Bridges at the Ashbrick and Blue-Flame districts once stretched out from the city to connect it to the rest of the Agrian transport network, however they were designed to be collapsible if needed, and fell in the apocalypse that razed the original buildings of the city.
The Citadel, now known as Izarren Lurrak by the goblinoids that make their home there, sits at the southern edge of the city, outwardly appearing to sit upon the walls, however its bowels sink deep beneath the city to meet the caverns below.
Infrastructure
The walls that served as the city's main defense split it into six districts: Cliffside was tied to technology and the sciences, Vrexil was tied to the sphere of Thought, Blueflame was tied to the sphere of Energy, Lakeside was tied to the sphere of Entropy, Ashbrick was tied to the sphere of Time, and the Docks were tied to the sphere of Matter.
The city tended towards hexagonal patterns, but did not operate under a strict block system. The main thoroughfares in the districts curved to match the land, and the minor roads and buildings tended to follow. Empty space was often either left as small plazas, or filled with flowerbeds and parks to beautify the city.
The Directors' Palace rests at the center of the city above the Webrun, a complex maze of passages and underground shops that surround the central tunnels, which strongly resemble a six-way roundabout, surrounding the lower, administrative, portion of the palace.
The city merely repaired and maintained the old Blackmoorian sewer lines, which were designed for a much higher population density, however water was taken into the city from underground rivers and collected in buried reservoirs before being pumped into the city by massive pieces of techno-arcane machinery.
The docks also held the city's shipyards, although the Stormwall caused them to be neglected and abandoned even before the Bloodtide. Coranis once held an impressive merchant navy, supplementing its overland trade routes, however by the time it was destroyed the docks were already a partially ruined slum, where cults and gangs roamed free.
RUINED SETTLEMENT
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