Serpentis Family/ Avamar - In East Continent
The controversial city of Avamar opens its gates to the world. A city that has become unique for its cultural and historical variety. Home of free spirits, capital of ancient empires and the greatest eastern trading post. Take a guide and prepare to meet the Sirion’s Capital of Culture and Trade.
The Ivory Tower
At the heart of the city rises the most important building. The fortified castle assumed aspects of an imperial palace and its white towers are the highest ones, crowning the city. Around the Tower the whole district was reformed, housing the new libraries and museums. With a predilection for squares, fountains and columns, the heart of the city became a block of majestic gardens until the marble stairs of the largest temple of the Grove. A paradise closed behind an inner wall, the Great Wall of Honor and Glory, erected by the Silver Dragon to protect his new estates, harems conquered in distant lands from defeated enemies and major cultural sites.
The Old Inner District
The old district keeps ancient traits. The architecture remained a mixture of the ancestral elven culture and the best human technologies. Immediately outside the inner walls, the old district is a purely administrative area with old bureaucratic buildings to regulate the trade and control the taxes. The last frontier before the chaos.
The Market
Almost all the rest of the city is a great market. A militarized area with recruitment centers, forges and barracks for the soldiers provides the protection for the bureaucratic inner area. Beyond that the chaos reigns sovereign over the streets, alleys and squares. In Avamar is possible to buy goods arriving via caravans of the most distant places of the East Continent and even goods that defy the ocean. The whole culture of the Sirion River is traded with Sirion and Sir Temple in the north and at the Elven Bay in Al Amarah and Karbala in the south, providing probably the biggest known market with routes established since Sirion was a colonial empire. Avamar is the gate that allows commercial intermingling of cultures and races. What is done is in Avamar stay in Avamar. While this hybrid culture permeates the city, traditional regions like Slimbar remains protected into the woods.
Docks, Ports and the Red District
It's hard to understand where the market ends to give place to the harbor. The smell of fish and sea invades the nostrils. The bright colors give seats to the dirtiest ones. Along Avamarian shores the Sirion River receives the greatest flow of ships traveling and unloading their goods, coming from the sea and distant lands up the river to make fortunes. With the demand of a harbor region and prostitution being considered a sacred office in Avamar, the Red District rose absurdly fast demonstrating another interesting contrast. The brothels are impressive like temples and exhibit a rich beauty that many merchants wouldn’t dare to bear.
This is Avamar, former rebel capital, center of culture and commerce of the East Continent.
Erik Eyolf Serpentis
