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===='''City of Arikos'''====
:Population: About 24,000

:Ariikos is located just outside the foothills of the Gigantis Mountains and is the city-state encompassing the starting area. Most of the other settlements in the roughly 42 mile radius accommodate the various kin (often Naga, Ogres, and Giants) that are welcomed in Arikos’s territory, but Arikos is known to be particularly accommodating.

:Grondival and their valiant followers help protect the city-state from threats. Their dogma makes it a point to accept even those of evil alignment with the hope that they can be reformed and serve as bodies in the defense of the city-state. It can be particularly challenging for followers of evil alignment, but not impossible.

:Grondival employs priests of Falkar to monitor these followers’ hearts. When the taint of evil in these followers has waned to a certain point, the High Priest sends the follower on a quest of atonement. Successfully completing this quest is known to turn those who were evil into good, but the hope of these followers is that even if they fail they can be welcomed to a peaceful afterlife.