Merian
"A marvelous city. In one moment you can watch the magnicificantly lit seaside cliffs of Shadowflare academy, and very next moment you can find yourself from anywhere in the multiverse! Interested in the Shadowfell? Head to the eastern side of the city. Or perhaps you are more into the plane of Air or the legendary City of Brass? Just head to the central plaza. And of course you will find no cleaner place in any of the planes. The air is clean and not a single speck of dust tarnishes the streets."
Alais Highbone
Public Agenda
The city-state of Merian was established to ruins of Shadowflare keep by wizards and scholars determined to find out all the secrets the notorious castle hid beneath it. This agenda gathered powerfull magic users together, and nowadays Merian is centre of knowledge and arcana secrets of Evernight. The city state was formed to keep order in the area.
History
Shadowfell keep at the shores of the Sea of Shadows was left empty after the demise of Faranach the Lich in the hands of the Knights of Trueblade. Promise of forgotten and forbidden knowledge gathered by eons old wizard intrigued many in the world, and quite soon adventuring parties and expeditions from various wizard brotherhoods gathered to investigate the ruins. However the ruins where larger than any one could have guessed, and Faranach had fulfilled them with devious and deadly traps. Very soon the competing factions realized that their best changes to unearth all the secrets of the Shadowflare keep was to co-operate with each other. Thus was written the Code of Shadowflare expeditions, which became few years later the baseline for constitution of Merian.
Demography and Population
All the citizens of the Merian live within the city itself. Unlike all the other city-states of Marghuin, Merian has not reached out of the city itself to populate hills close by. This is partly because most of the citizens are somehow connected to Shadowflare academy or other prestidigious schools located in the heart of the city. Other reason for this it that area around Merian is very unstable and negative energy from Shadowfell and Negative Energy Plane are constantly making the area hazardous without proper safety measures. It has been deemed best by the Council of Merian to concentrate these measures to smaller area, the city itself.
Military
Merian has only a little guard force to keep up order and safety within the city walls. There is not much need for soldiers when other city-states are not willing to take up arms against the mighty magic wielders of the Merian.
Technological Level
Most of the physical work in Merian is done by reanimated corpses. Whenever someone dies within the city, the body is burned as fast as possible and state-necromancers animate burned skeletons to work for the city in constructions and maintenance work of the city. This procedure is done mostly because unstable magics around Merian would eventually re-animate corpses without any control which could lead to catastrophic results.
Religion
There are few gods worshipped in Merian. These include Sashana the Wise and Fatemaster Daianai. Worship of Tarananh the Grasp of The Grave is strictly forbidden in the city. Merian is also only place in the Evernight where there is a small cult dedicated to Mukaran the Sleeper, the Highgod of Magic. There is no official religions, and most of the citizens dedicate more time to self-improvement than worshipping deities.
Foreign Relations
Merian is dependant on other city-states to provide them with food and other materials. Luckily for them, most of the other city-states are more than happy to receive payment in the form of all kinds of magical and arcane services that countless wizards of Merian can offer.
Education
Merian is leading star of education. Almost every citizen has undergone basic school and many of them have continued their studies in universities or other academies of the city. Merian is also home to the most prestidigious arcane academy in all of the Evernight, Shadowflare academy.
Infrastructure
Merian is the crossroad for all the planar traveling. Walls between planes are thin in the area near Merian, and thus wizards of Merian have used this as their tool to open permanent planar gates to all the planes they could. Anyone willing to pay enough is allowed to use these gates, but wizards of Merian guard them tightly to keep extraplanar threats away from Material Plane.
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Founding Date
49th of Dimness in year 763 of 12th Millenia
Type
Geopolitical, City-state
Capital
Government System
Electocracy
Power Structure
Unitary state
Economic System
Market economy
Major Imports
Merian is fully dependant on imported food. Most of this is bought from Disoen and Sundair.
Location
Controlled Territories
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