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===Settlements===

'''Blackpool''' Regarded as a harbour for smugglers and pirates, with good reason, Blackpool is a sprawling collection of hovels perched by a tricky, shoal-filled, swampy harbour. Blackpool maintains a shaky alliance with local Lizardmen tribes, has a higher proportion of Halflings than any other settlement, who fish and hunt in the swamps in small leather coracles.

'''Gelinat''' The mighty Sasserine River is navigable up to the first cataract, where Gelinat began as a trading post. Over the centuries it has turned into a bustling crossroads city, the commercial centre of the region. 

'''Holy Tiral''' One thousand years ago trappers "accidentally" digging in a barrow discovered two golden tablets covered in a scrawling script. They were immediately struck blind. Today the two tablets are served by a small host of blind scribes and priests, and their many sighted servants.

'''New Rhuth''' Rhuth the Great was destroyed by Ixu Maugh's flame. New Rhuth now crowds the lower slopes of Winterhorn, the Sacred Mountain of the Dwarves. New Rhuth is a surface city, although year by year new galleries are crafted beneath it.

'''Sasserine''' Unlike the other settlements in the region, Sasserine is an Imperial City, governed by a Council of Nobles, owing fealty to distant Nessantico. Although there is much cause for friction between the region and the Empire, considerable trade profits have a way of smoothing rough waters.

'''Tal Ellindor''' The Hidden City, wrapped in cloaking enchantments by the Elven Queen, has seen no non-Elven visitor in centuries. Devastated by dragon-flame, the Elves have slowly rebuilt the cracked stone and scorched gardens. Those who have visited it 

'''Vleris''' A steep-roofed trade town critical to the trade with the Northern tribes, Vleris was once known for its University. The halls and amphitheatres are choked with ivy and sparrow nests now, but behind them, down dark hallways, lies a Chantry of Arcane Lore, the region's last school of magic.  

'''Yul Ethyr''' viewed as a safe posting, a good career stepping stone for Imperial Officers. With a mixed Cohort, including riverine units, the fortress guards trade between Sasserine and Gelinat.

'''Yul Osru''' viewed by Imperial Officers as a punishment posting, this most distant fortress has a fragment of an Imperial Cohort, and a handful of mercenaries, posed to guard against the many perils of the Dreadwood.