The City of Sevan

Sevan is the capital and crown city of Rinor . It is home to roughly 40 thousand people, including the court and government of the Kingdom. A trade hub, goods from the surrounding Kingdom travel here to be shipped out-country over water on the Inner Seas.

Demographics

As a trade hub, Sevan is a relatively cosmopolitan city, host to travelers and permanent residents from all over the continent. The docklands are the most diverse. The richest areas of the city, surrounding Lestone Tower and the government buildings, are the least diverse, but do contain noble townhouses for nobles from throughout the kingdom.

Government

The government of the city is technically separate from that of the country, in the form of a City Council headed by the Duke. In reality, prominent local members of the Court and Privy Council are also members of the City Council, so the decisions of government are made by the same people most of the time.

Defences

Sevan has outgrown its walls. As the capital of a kingdom at peace for many years, about a third of the population lives outside the walls. Watchtowers and wooden gates are built near the main road entry points to the city.
The docks and harbor have permanent cannon emplacements, and a naval fort lies adjacent to the commercial docks.

Industry & Trade

The harbor and docks are the reason for this city's existence, with overland local trade in livestock and agricultural products coming in on the trade roads simply to be transferred to cargo vessels that sail the Inner Seas. Major industries for the city include fishing and a larger than normal number of agricultural processing facilities (slaughterhouses, tanneries, furriers, and the like) that centralize the industry of turning live animals into useful products for the surrounding agricultural area.

Guilds and Factions

Guilds are hyper specialized in a city this size. Where a smaller city would have a Clothier's Guild, Sevan has a Threadmaker's Guild, a Fuller's Guild, a Weaver's Guild, and a Tailor's Guild. While there is some informal overlap in memberships (the Longshoreman's Guild will usually happily take on a member of the Sailor's Guild that wants to keep his feet dry for a while, and vice versa) this hyper-specialization has been known to cause strife when one sub-group is doing significantly better than the rest of the related guilds.

Geography

The city covers about 1 square mile, nestled against the south coast of the Long Lake

Type

Large city

Population

38389

Location under

Rinor

Included Locations

• Royal Palace of Ptakpi