Channa
Channa is a typical city-state of farmers and herders. The land is not quite as flat and not quite as fertile as the area farther along the River Yugraetes, but the smaller towns and settlements which are subject to Channa still do well for themselves and their city. The city is surrounded by canals and irrigation channels that funnel water from the river out to the farmlands. Channa has a small but adequate dock area on the river; some traders stop here on their way downriver from Perqa or Maahri, but most elect just to go on down the river to the great city of Parphelon.
A professional guard force of several thousand troops is ready to protect the city-state, or join the army of the king under the leadership of the paehutu. The thick, mud-brick walls of the city are large enough to allow those from the surrounding lands to take shelter in case of an attack on the area. An inner wall surrounds a ziggurat temple to Tammuz, god of fertility and rebirth. A processional way (paved with stone, unlike most of the dirt streets) leads from the main city gates to the gate in the temple wall and on to the steps of the temple itself. Thousands of people line the processional way and thousand more participate in the regular festivals to celebrate Tammuz and his mate Ishtar, who has her own temple just on the other side of the great one to Tammuz.
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