Imaari Hills

Imaari Hills is home to many of New Straum's wealthy and well-to-do. Mansions and fast-castles litter the coastal side of every foothill. This brush with local royalty is juxtaposed by New Straum's private wizarding academy which sits suspended among the various hilltops and canyons deeper into the area. Despite the requisite partying that appears whenever collegiate inhibition and too much money collide, Imaari Hills has a reputation of being a sedate and welcoming Ward to all races... as long as they fit the demographic. Seeing the likes of a dwarven trucker or halfling cook wandering through the shops of Imaari Hills Boulevard would cause a minor scandal among the populous.

Though not technically a part of Imaari Hills, The ward overlooks the remains of the Regulated Association for Housing Development's failed community of Bathory. Though Bathory Towers (rebranded as the Lofts at Bathory in the 80's) and some of the other businesses in the Tribunal's Folly are still occupied, and people still live in the area, the planned community huddles in stark, dour contrast to the clean prosperity of its neighbors up in the Hills

Defences

Included in its high cost of living and general isolation from the rest of the city, Imaari Hills maintains one of the most well-funded divisions of the City Watch and a crack company of wolf-takers on retainer. Ostensibly, these precautions exist to protect wizarding students and the general populous from the dangers of the encroaching wilderness north west of the hills. But, while the threat of fell beasts raiding the Hills is not unfounded, more often than not the Imaari forces are paid to keep the wrong sort of people from lingering in town for too long.

Architecture

Design of the university began in 1912, before the First Dwarven War, and its architecture reflects the blending of traditional Alcyen Gothic and intricate arabesque spires and mosaics of the Rabes'm which were popular at that time. The Ward itself is a collage of vogue design sensibilities from across the globe and various decades of high-end design. Only the main thoroughfare, Imaari Hills Boulevard, has any semblance of uniform style, adopting a tastefully artistic impersonation of colonial stucco and tilework, utilizing the latest materials and magical techniques to keep the stucco gleaming white and the tile glazing from fading in the sun.