Escadar
To the north of Kortos lies the Isle of Erran, which once served as a private retreat away from mortals for Aroden and his most trusted devotees. A 12-hour boat ride from the north coast village of Pier’s End delivers travelers to the city of Escadar, the site of an ancient Arodenite monastery called St. Sarnax. This grand marble building on the island’s southern side was once the training academy and esoteric library for the Knights of the Aeon Star, an order of holy sword-mages who swore allegiance to Aroden in the time before his ascension. The monastery still gleams as brightly as it did in Aroden’s day, and three elderly Knights of the Aeon Star still tend to the building and its artifacts.
Escadar—named after one of the newly minted lords who helped fight in the Pirate Siege of 430–536 AR—now primarily serves as the base for Absalom’s Navy and a unique naval force called the Wave Riders. Also sometimes referred to as the Sea Cavalry, the hippocampus-mounted Wave Riders patrol Starstone Isle and the Bay of Kortos. Absalom’s modest armada spends most of its time at sea, but Escadar is home to a legion of naval administrators, as well as the city’s ambitious Sea Lord, Lerefys.
To entertain its many visiting sailors, the city is filled with “sin lodges,” such as gambling dens, brothels, and drug parlors. Disappearances and crimes are common among the workers of these establishments, but the local authorities generally do not act unless a sailor or soldier is involved.
Escadar is also home to several azarketi immigrants and travelers from the nearby submerged city of Kienek-Li, to the north. The azarketi have their own embassy in the city called the House of the Cresting Wave, where Kienek-Li arranges the details of its surface trading with Escadar via the soft-spoken ambassador, Lemaria Kumari.
Escadar—named after one of the newly minted lords who helped fight in the Pirate Siege of 430–536 AR—now primarily serves as the base for Absalom’s Navy and a unique naval force called the Wave Riders. Also sometimes referred to as the Sea Cavalry, the hippocampus-mounted Wave Riders patrol Starstone Isle and the Bay of Kortos. Absalom’s modest armada spends most of its time at sea, but Escadar is home to a legion of naval administrators, as well as the city’s ambitious Sea Lord, Lerefys.
To entertain its many visiting sailors, the city is filled with “sin lodges,” such as gambling dens, brothels, and drug parlors. Disappearances and crimes are common among the workers of these establishments, but the local authorities generally do not act unless a sailor or soldier is involved.
Escadar is also home to several azarketi immigrants and travelers from the nearby submerged city of Kienek-Li, to the north. The azarketi have their own embassy in the city called the House of the Cresting Wave, where Kienek-Li arranges the details of its surface trading with Escadar via the soft-spoken ambassador, Lemaria Kumari.
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