Calantor

The city-state metropolis of Calantor is the largest city on the continent of Demana and home to millions of people. For hundreds of years it was a beacon of civilization and prosperity, but since the coming of the mists, the grandeur has faded. The shadows of the great towers have grown longer and darker, the times leaner and harder. Strange horrors prowl the unlit streets at the edge of town. Hushed voices whisper about dark things awakening.

The People

Children of the Earth

Calantor is home to grand variety humanoid peoples, tribes and heritages. Some of these claim mystical origins, while other consider themselves children of this world, created or evolved in primordial times to inhabit its lands - while other have a more recent history.

Humans

Humans are the the most numerous among the humanoid breeds on the continent of Demana and in the city of Calantor.

• Gelfarian
• Darian
• Kadian
• Niyshin
• Hesperian
• Torakh

Halflings

• Alleyfeet
• Brightsworn
• Meadowkind
• Flitferry

Automatons

• Gearforged
• Mannikin

Orcs

Orcs, or Ulûk in their own tongue, originally came to Calantor as pirates and privateers, mercenaries for the gegick invasion army during the Great War, but have come far from their warlike beginnings. Though a significant portion of orcs in Calantor are found in naval or military pursuits, they have spread through most of Calantors society (although very rarely in the upper echelons).

• Calantian Orc
• Oldblood

Dwarves

• Thrumbar
• Kragen
• Dimlodir

The Dawn Emigrants

Legends hold that aeons ago a vast host came to Demana from the Wild lands to wage war against a great evil. In the aftermath of this conflict they remained, raising kingdoms and even empires. These were the ancestors of the elves, goblins, gnomes and firbolgs.

Elves

After the fall of the great elven empire of Tavaria thousands of years ago, elves lived alongside the humans of the northern kingdoms of Demana. This peaceful cohabitation ended when the Gelgic Alliance attacked the northern realms. The archduke of the alliance held an irrational hatred for non-humans in general and elves in particular. To avoid persecution some elves fled through the strange magic of the Malachite Tower while others found refuge under the Silver Aegis. Not all elves were so fortunate and a many had to go into hiding in deep woods or harsh mountains to avoid ending up in labor camps

• Sildruin
• Mornath
• Sianni
• Ugarith

Goblinkin

• Hobgoblin
• Bugbear
• Goblin

Firbolgs

• Fir Erimea
• Fir Yinhorn

Gnomes

• Rotborn Gnome

The Wild Folk

Shortly after the Mists started to spread four decades ago, fey creatures of legends reappeared. Not as trickster and tempters of the woods, as the tales would have them, but as refugees. Droves of strange beings turned up at the doorstep of civilization, whispering about their domains falling asunder, and about the monsters of the Mists. Most made their way to Calantor due to the great Mistwards. They were given sanctuary, but so often with refugees, only as third class citizens.

• Fairy
• Centaur
• Nymph
• Changelings
• Satyr
• Pooka

City Overview

Districts

The Galatine Isle

The Galatine river forking into the Bay of Stars and the Elantrian Sea creates an isle where the oldest part of Calantor is situated.

• The Hightor
• Benversant
• Mirkside
• East Riverbend
• Lanternwater
• Hawthorn Estates
• Aubigny Park
• Faebottom
• Auldsantes
• Esporia
• Chavalgon
• Cascamere Harbor
• Ardenmere Harbor

The Skyreaches

The Skyreaches are three clusters of interconnected towers surrounding the Hightor. Each of the clusters stretches to a dizzing height, rivlaing the Hightor itself.

• Prospero
• Dawnview
• Fellspire

The Rondure Districts

The districts surroundin g the Galatine Isle, but that are still within the confines of the old Clarentian City Wall are called the Rondure Districts

• Brigtspires
• Belmorgaine
• Langston
• Widowhall
• Fulverton
• Coulatriste
• Longharbor
• Dracomere
• Vadria
• West Riverbend

The Outer City

• Silveroaks
• Shadeshill
• Pauvinne
• Widowhall
• Larkspur Stacks
• Ironhearth Heights
• Viendamere
• Tattertown
• Foundrybrook
• Hadogan Fields
• Horstveld
• Sallowmere Mills
• Motherse

Guilds and Factions

The Elite

The hight and mighty of Calentor are comprised of the Galatine Aristocracy, the Vespertine Houses, the New Money and the elven High Houses. The elite of Calantor have many pretenses of respectabilty and standing but an underbelly of debauchery and delights known as the Demimonde has become increasingly popular among the rich and powerfull of the city

The Church

The Church of the Merciful Angel, led by the Midnight Ministry, is the only recognized faith in Calantor and the Coalition. Even though the Age of Prosperity brought a wave of secularization and interest in the arcane, the church is still a very influntial part och Calantor, both spiritually and politically.

The Companies

• The Crystalcraft Consortium
• Tumulus-Stahl Mineral & Rail
• Stillwater Armaments
• Galvanis Applied Alchemics
• The Westward Trading Venture
• Deepforge Ironworks

Criminal Organizations

• Fiendbrand Cartel
• Nightmare Court
• Vile Barbers
• Longharbor Boys

Esoteric Societies

• Venatorium
• Platinum Flame
• Society for Esotheric Eschatology

Founding Date

410

Founders

• Calana
• Mionor
• Rion

Type

Large city

Population

Over 8 million

Inhabitant Demonym

Calantian

Location under

The Coalition

Owner/Ruler

Parliment of Prosperity

Characters in Location

• Valerius de Malagant