Drakkar
Known both as the City of Light and the White City, Drakkar is a marvel of architecture and testament to what a unified humanity can accomplish. Built solely from marble - most of it a luminous white - the most faithful of Anderi's flock have carefully planned out the entire design of the city, from the smallest minaret to the great Temple of the High Sun that stands at its center. Eight streets, paved with bricks of a golden yellow hue, radiate out from the square in which the temple sits, leading the short distance to the city's alabaster walls. Regular streets cut across the broad avenues, making the city a perfect sunburst with the temple and the great market at its feet the center. Gates in the city walls allow travelers to enter the grand city in each of the four cardinal direction, with gates on the south and east leading to shanty towns around a far less planned wharf.
Given the constraints of the city walls, Drakkar has grown in height rather than girth. Buildings along each main boulevard reach as high as five stories near the temple, decreasing incrementally as they approach the gates. Each is built from white marble, occasionally highlighted with veins of red and gold, designed exactly the same as their counterparts on opposing avenues. The symmetry, while breathtaking from the tallest towers of the city, is often lost on visitors who can find it disorienting and often find themselves lost. Fortunately, white and golden garbed members the Light Brigade are omnipresent and happy to help a wayward stranger find their way.
Citizens of the city, generally devout worshipers of the Lord of Light, require little policing to maintain law and order. The Brigade, however, ensures that the city is one of the safest on Tarien. Streets are brightly lit each evening to chase away the darkness and even the fairest of maiden may travel the unmolested. While there certainly is an Azermathian Alliance presence in city, it generally keeps to the shanty towns outside the city gates. Like other settlements in the Kingdom of Drakkar, the Light Brigade is always on the lookout for spies from rival Warwick.
Founding Date
538 AC
Type
City
Population
10,000
Inhabitant Demonym
Drakarrians
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