Sustara
The Capital of the Kingdom Sustara. The Royal Palace of Sustara is a column of stone reaching from the floor to the ceiling of the cavern. The column is filled with rooms and halls carved from the stone while the walls of the cavern are filled with cave dwellings that climb far up the cavern’s high walls. The capital is also a center of the canal network where four canals meet and form a lake that surrounds the palace. The underground city is lighted by four crystal globes some 20' in diameter hung from the caverns ceiling by a metal collar and a dozen thick chains. The globes are filled with a luminous magical subsstance that casts a pale light resembling the light of the full moon throughout the cavern. During the city's artificial night these globes dim to about half there normal intensity.
Each quadrant of the city has a great market square. The Goods market sells all manner of manufactures, the slave market sells humans and others unfortunate to fall into bondage in the Kingdom, the food market sells both fresh and preserved foods and the wizards market sells magic items and materials of interest to spell casters.
Demographics
About half the cities population is Dark Corgerian. The remainder is divided between half-castes, Danites and various enslaved people of all races.
Infrastructure
The city has an extensive network of canals and bridges.
Architecture
Freestanding buildings of stone are built in large blocks which fill the region between the Palace Lake and the outer ring canal. Large cliff dwellings climb up the wall of the cavern just beyond the Outer Ring Canal. The Royal Palace is a monumental structure carved out of a huge pillar of stone the runs from the floor to the ceiling of the Cavern.
Geography
The City is roughly circular radiating out from the Royal Palace. An artificial lake surrounds the palace with canal radiating outward like spokes of wheel intersecting with an inner and outer canal.
Type
Capital
Population
22,000
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