City Overview
Brotherhood is an Adventurer City between the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers. The city is built on a grid, with regular green space. Mingled between buildings suited for the time period (mostly small, one or two level homes) are the ruins of more modern buildings. These anachronistic features are sparsely arranged across the city. There are also several large structures, such as the guild center and cathedral. In addition to these buildings is the impressive structure known as Liberty Hall, where Congress sits.
The city population includes two groups of Landers. There are the natives, known as the Delaware, whose long houses are found neatly arranged on the edges of the city, where they can easily reach their hunting grounds and more expansive garden space. In addition to the Delaware, there are Lander settlers in Brotherhood. These Landers speak a variety of languages and focus heavily on mercantile activities. While these Landers sometimes disagree on matters, they do not often come to blows with each other, and are largely a peaceful group.
Congress
The true power of Brotherhood is not the Lander groups, but an alliance of thirteen guilds. These guilds banded together to ensure that Brotherhood would be a safe and fair place for adventurers of all levels. They declared Brotherhood to be a city free of social castes and open to all who would follow the local laws. The adherence of this alliance to the Rule of Law is why it is called Congress.
In a mixture of inspirations, the leaders of the 13 guilds refer to themselves as the Knights of the Round Table. They are led, fitting enough, by Arthur. Despite the name, Arthur is not a king, but serves as the executive responsible for utilizing the resources of the Round Table to carry out the will of Congress. Congress itself is an elected body with 25 representatives. Currently, any Adventurer can be part of Congress and diversity of background and station is remarkable. Low and high level characters from a variety of guilds can be found amongst their ranks.
Congress has the power to pass laws and allocate shared resources. Their overall approach has been to pass only the laws that are required and to fall on the side of preserving liberty rather than exercising control. Congress does organize efforts to gather tax revenue (largely from commercial efforts) to support the maintenance of structures and keeping the peace.
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