The Court of the Lawgivers

• Great Forks: The city of prayer, home of expatriate gods, ruled by three powerful spirits.
• The Gray River
  • Flying Pearl Lake: A lunar-aspected retreat-manse that spans the Grey north of the Marukan Redoubt.
  • The Infinite City: A mobile city and citadel, hidden beneath the river and protected by sorcerous wards.
    • The Halls of Venus: The civilian ward of the infinite city.
  • Varsi: An ancient fortress-city, famed for its annual Martial Arts tournament.
    • The Empty Garden: An earth-aspected temple-manse that serves as an immaculate monastery within the city walls.
    • The Jade Stair: An earth-aspected wellspring of regimented power within the palace of the Voivode.
    • Puyo: Varsi's one tributary city, rotting from within.
      • Fenghuang Temple: A fire-aspected monastery-manse hidden in the hills near Puyo, with a terrible secret deep inside.
      • The Palace of Peace Eternal: An earth-aspected palace-manse, home to the Pashah.
• The Marukan Alliance: A loose confederation of semi-nomadic horse tribes.
  • Western Marukan
    • Celeren: The fire-aspected fortress-manse held by the leading clan of the Alliance.
    • Deren's Ford: A water-aspected hidden manse; part of the living history of Marukan.
    • Storm's Eye Hill: An air-aspected retreat-manse mid-way between the Eye of Hiparkes and Celeren.
  • Eye of Hiparkes: The network of roads Rivers Between Us had built in the Marukan hills.
    • Estate of the Nameless Ravine: An obscure tea-growing plantation high in the Marukan Alliance, site of family tragedies, slumbering gods, and momentous oaths.
    • God Crossing: The town, soon city, that sits at the center of the Eye.
    • Flame-bond Forge: The fire-aspected forge-manse Rivers built and shares with Serrakeen.
    • Pagoda of Infinite Strategy: The solar-aspected war-manse, home to the circle's military command.
    • Plum Blossom Retreat: The wood-aspected manse Rivers created as a fortress and school.
    • The Righteous Stair: The solar-aspected temple-manse that tops the cliffs of the southwestern Eye.
  • Eastern Marukan
    • Gatehouse of the Five Winds: A solar-aspected Aerie and refuge in East Marukan.
    • House of Courage: A fire-aspected shrine built for Sweet Brass to watch over Storm of Amber.
    • The Well of Roots: The secluded meditation chamber of Leaf Shakes the Wind.
• Nexus: Crossroads of the River Province, the city where everything is for sale.
  • House of Verdant Mysteries Revealed: The solar-aspected Manse of Sapphire River at Midnight, in a forest just across the Grey River from Nexus.
  • The Tomb of Keening Spirits: Grave of the Herald of the East, opened by the circle.

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