Editing Second Age Locations (section)

==The South==

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Chryselephantine - southern mountain city known for its elephants and gold mines

Marmoreal - southern mountain city known for its marble and poetry

Porphyry - southern coastal city known for its vast underwater labyrinth. It is ruled by the Hypnogogue, a sleeping woman who is only awake and capable of dealing with the affairs of her state for one day each month.

Mirage, a desert city that may be an illusion. One of every group that passes through Mirage must stay there forever.

Ziggurat – a deeply hierarchical civilization based entirely within a colossal First Age arcology. Their ruler, the Slave King, is never permitted to leave the confines of his rooms or meet the subjects he rules.

Candle and Abram - coastal towns on the outskirts of Chiaroscuro

The Tavern of Green Lanterns - a tavern in the Foreigners’ Quarter of Chiaroscuro much frequented by spies, poets, and dreamers. Green was the colour of mystery in the colour language of old Chiaroscuro.

The House of Glass and Jade – a Fire-aspected Desmense, a lethal maze of red jade and razor-sharp, near invisible glass shards forged by the heat of the noonday sun. Once the headquarters of the Many and more recently the scene of an epic battle between Solar and Abyssal Exalted.

Cereus - remote and little-known mountain state ruled by a hereditary class of Terrestrial Exalted who are revered and almost worshipped but who wield no real power

The Republic of Slaves – a mountain-top fortress city founded by escaped slaves. Their society is formed around their belief that all human beings are slaves to one thing or another, and that the only dignity to be found is in recognising and formalising this fact.

Azimuth Canyon – a gigantic canyon located in the very deep South, on the Border Marches of the Wyld. The Canyon’s connection to Creation is only one way – it is possible to leave it, though it involves years of gruelling travel through the desert, but it is not possible to travel to it. Due to its location in the Wyld, the flora, fauna, and tribal societies of Azimuth Canyon proverbially defy description in their colour, diversity, and strangeness. 

The Peacock Kingdom – a realm with a highly stratified social hierarchy, whose inhabitants believe they continually swap bodies with one another as easily and regularly as breathing.