Rines

Rines
Allegiance
Island Realm	Beluaterra (rogue)
Statistics
Type Weather Economy Population Gold Food	City East Islands Manufacturing, Trade 1

The large citadel of Rines is a bustling coastal trading center, attracting merchants and artisans from across the world and providing shelter under its powerful towers to become one of the top five largest cities in the world. Southern waters and temperatures make for balmy days and temperate nights.

The center of the ages-old and now deceased Rines Republic, the city of Rines has afterwards been usually under control of Riombara. During the height of the Second Great War the city was lost to anarchy and mayhem after being targeted as the potential Blood Cultist colony. In the winter of the year 2009 the sunbathed flags of the Riombaran nobles entered the city again and took Rines under their wings.

After the fall of Riombara at the outset of the Sixth Daimonic invasion in 2016, permanent control of Rines eventually passed to theocratic realm of Sacred Obia'Syela in 2017.

City of Moonlight, Crown Jewel of the South

Nestled between the sapphire waters of the Sea of Four Cities and wooded hills of the Athol Margos Peninsula sits Rines: a sprawling City of Moonlight and eighth-largest settlement in the world. The bustling streets and quiet homesteads are surrounded by strong walls and high watchtowers, resplendent moon-white stone, guarding the peaceful inhabitants. A deep-water port stands sentinel at the entrance to the city's waterways and trade centers. Though bustling, the streets of Rines are rarely clogged, many bridges connecting the City to the small island that lay at its center, provide an excellent, scenic alternate to the winding streets of Rines. At the center of it all stands the Basilica of Rines, a beacon of moonlight and hope in a world of darkness.

When Riombara fell during the Sixth Daimonic Invasion, Rines was ravished and its many thousands of citizens were either killed or driven off, leaving the City of Moonlight as little more than necropolis home to more dead than living. Now as day turns to night, watchtower flames roar to life to ring the great city in light once again, a comforting sight to any weary traveler looking for a place to lay their head.

Be it by land or water, travel throughout the city is always a sight of wonder and amazement, visitors often notice the people of Rines possess a special resilience and determination to carve out their place in the world.

Distinctive Features

Being one of the largest cities on the planet does have one distinct disadvantage: It takes quite a while to travel from the outskirts like the docks or Obeah's Gate to the Basilica. The Sixth Invasion had taken a cataclysmic toll upon the city. By all accounts, it had been a total necropolis before the Heralds had arrived. Now, even at night, the Basilica dominates the city skyline, towering above even the temple at other grand buildings, a great pillar of ivory spires from which radiates the City of Moonlight.

The Basilica is a grand structure connived and built during the earliest days of history, it's architects designed the soaring castle to be larger than life. Everything from the doorways to he windows to the halls were scaled up as though meant for the titans of a forgotten age. Thankfully, however, the designers stopped themselves before making stairs too big to be easily traversed. Constructed with solid granite blocks and sheathed in fine marble quarried from nearby foothills set the aesthetic from which the rest of the expansive city drew inspiration.

The Solarium was the architectural marvel of the Basilica of Rines. Placed at the pinnacle of the large central tower, the Solarium was the highest room in southern Beluaterra. The room was only accessible by a long, wide, winding flight of steps that eventually reached a trap door, now open. Upon emerging, most visitors first notice the Solarium's ceiling and learn how this room got its name. It's ceiling and walls were a latticework of bronze-plated supports and pains of clear glass forming a dome over a room abou the size of a dining hall and ringed by a circular balcony that afforded a better view of Rines to those that were brave enough to walk it. Outside, the night was alight with stars and the rising crescent moon, if not for the lanterns that had been lit for the summit, visitors to the Solarium might get the impression that they were walking among those celestial bodies.

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