Valone
The City at the River's End
'All roads lead to Valone' isn't made up, my friends. I've been there before, and it's real.
The walled city of Valone is the capital of Valonia Empire. Located at a mouth of the Dirwen River, Valone dominate the west coast of the South Estisia as one of the biggest cities in the world.
Once started as a town of immigrants, it thrive to the greatest thanks to the hands of the royal family, to the point there was a century of no wars but merchants.
Defences
The outsiders can only access through docks and gates of the great Wall of Sarton built around the city. The wall is always protected by guards all-day and night-long.
Speaking of protection, Valone has its own police department called the Royal Enforcement. Equivalent to Gunner Legion, they're enforcing laws and give the peace to every citizens and outsiders.
Infrastructure
Fresh water is always abundant. The Dirwen river and a number of reservoirs and aqueducts supply the population, while waste goes through the sewer beneath the road flowing down to the outlet at the Tunnel River just beside the Inner Wall.
Outside the city, a giant road network start expending here, connecting the entire empire altogether, spreading their wisdom upon the foreign land much easier.
Government
Valone houses all the main governmentel buildings of the empire, such as:
House of Wisdom
Institute of Knowledge
Rondius Fort
Grand Palace of Valone
Industry & Trade
Established on a wide Dirwen River, ships have to pass through Valone first, and so the bussling Port Dirwen. As such, one of the empire's main income is nothing but Tolls, collecting from the ships passing the Valonus Bridge - both exit and enter.
Despite the lack of metals nearby, the city develop the good practise of Metal-working. Like the scholars, the city also attract craftmens to share their knowledge. Some even from guilds to collaborate for their greater good, which can be entrusted by the government.
The biggest and oldest smithing guilds is Ferrum Faber. They can do a mass-produce orders with decentrailized model: Made component seperately, assigning tasks to their clients and later assembling at the headquarter. From the cutting-edge carpentry tools, to military equipments, Ferrum Faber does it all.
Valone is also well-known from their Stoneworking. From the great Wall of Sarton, the Tower, and even bridges, these used materials from The Quarry of Sarton , providing high-quality marbles and granites for over 400 years, not including the artisans and a material commissions, as far as the Centralium.
Districts
Points of interest
The city was found on the grass plain between the ocean, the river, and the mountain. The landscape is so magnificent that if you look straight to the horizon, you can see a wide blue sky in the day, and a beautiful star in the night.
There are many place to visit - some of them even survived the Sacked of 30 BVE. There are the Quarryman's Pub, the Rondius Intertemis, the Maximus Intertemis, and of course—The Tower of Eternal Light.
Architecture
A dark orange-red tile roof and white walls is a very common in Valone. Brick Tenements, the 2-4 storeys high aprtment made of clays and woods, can be found commonly around the city especially around the Val Forum in the South Quarter.
Essential buildings such as institutes or ports are made of harder materials like granite or marble. Granites are used for the foundation and frame, whereas marbles are rather used for decoration, especially statues, pillars, and floors.
The Tower of Eternal Light
Among well-decorated and exquisitely built institutional buildings, the most significant structure is actually a tall inland lighthouse beside the palace, where the light never stopped shining. Built in 171 BVE, it became the tallest structure in the world, so high that you can see an overall view of the entire city from the top, seeing the mix of orange-red roofs and white walls as such.
Furthermore, the tower also contains statesman's statues to learn their legacies, with 4 of them attached to each side of the tower. Those figures are:
The statues change overtime, depending on the Senate's decision.
History
- The city was found by the group of Krins being banished from the Empire of Kritus. They were led by Val, who declared himself as the first king of Valonia. The settlement then become the Rondius Fort.
- In 320 BVE, in the reign of Sarton I, The Great Wall of Sarton had been built, supplying by the nearby great quarry at the other side of the river.
- From 210 to 30 BVE, Valone entered the Age of Wealth and Peace, considering to be its golden age; The city grew skyrocketed, no wars involved, and many merchants kept travelling here to build up their fortune. The Tower of Eternal Light was built during this period, as well as the the wall extension.
- Unfortunately, nothing lasted forever. As a result of Valonia losing the war against the Kritus, it became severely sacked. Many buildings burned down, crumbled, or demolished to build Krin's own monument, requireing slavery to an extreme.
- Luckily, thanks to the independence force in 15 BVE, the city was rebuilt to be as beautiful as before, and became as it is to these days.
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