Highguard
Highguard is the central imperial city of the affluent and powerful, home to the Kalashtar race and the God-Emperor himself. Highguard serves as the controlling city of the entire empire as well as the base of operations for the imperial military. For this reason, it is commonly referred to as the “safest place on Nemesis”.
Highguard is also the center of Halcyon's main religion. The citadel church of Highguard is the largest structure for worship in all of Halcyon, where acolytes of the Church of the Exalted commune directly with Tyrannus to attain enlightenment. In return, they spread his word and enforce his will.
During the Eternal Conquest, before the empire's expansion, this city's territory contained the entirety of Tyrannus's domain. Then referred to as the Kingdom of Halcyon, the Kalashtar homeland was once a beautiful, lush environment befitting nobility. After the great war, the frozen biome of the Hinterlands expanded south, enveloping Highguard in a similar environment to Wyvernrath . However, whereas Wyvernrath still experienced seasonal changes, it would never stop snowing in Highguard again, trapping the city in a state of ever-winter. With the technology at their disposal, Highguard was able to simulate different seasonal environments under a large sky dome; a facade that continues to delude its citizens from the dystopia the empire has manufactured.
Admittance into Highguard is contingent upon a subject's species classification. The stark white city is a privilege of the superior races and merely a distant dream to the inferior races. Among the inferior races of Halcyon, they commonly believe that the goddess Nemesis cursed the political elites of the empire for their desecration of her world by freezing their once beautiful city.
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