Varna

Small City, Population: 8,000

According to the Book:

While Greenheart is the spiritual capital of the Eldeen Reaches, Varna is its largest city and the center for trade and contact with the rest of Khorvaire. Varna, the greatest stronghold of House Vadalis, contains ranches and training facilities for the dozens of different types of creatures that Vadalis deals in. It’s a popular joke that the stables here are finer than the houses, and there’s some truth to this, even when applied to the quarters of Dalin d’Vadalis (male human), the house patriarch—a shrewd, hands-on breeder with an uncanny empathy for, and knowledge of how to handle, both animals and people. If an adventurer seeks a topgrade magebred warhorse or a pegasus to serve as a mount, Varna is the place to go.
Most of the dragonmarked houses have a presence in Varna. A thriving black market for goods that poachers have acquired from the great wood also operates within the city; the Wardens take action against anyone found in possession of such material (including items such as unicorn horns or displacer beast pelts). While Varna focuses on animal husbandry, the architecture and tone of the city matches its counterparts in Aundair; even in the bitter final days of the war, House Vadalis managed to remain on good terms with Aundair (thanks in no small part to the patriarch’s brother having married the Aundair queen). One of the notable features of the city is Hunter’s Grove, an enormous temple dedicated to the Sovereign Lord Balinor, the patron deity of House Vadalis.

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