Kalnathan
The city of Kalnathan is a small one that was on the very edge of the royal lands before the war. Lacking supporting infrastructure it fell into disrepair and abandonment after the war. Even before then, however, it had a reputation for strangeness. Now the empty and ruined streets are the haunts of feral tribes of men, savages who prey on each other and on any rash intruders.
"The last few miles of the approach have been upon a wide and well-made road curling westward and upward into the mountains, a tall peak on either side of the way.
As the road turns around the base of the great rise of rock to your right you gain a view westward and there is Kalnathan. The first thing you notice is a wall of white stone stretching from side to side of the valley, the wall divided at several places by formidable round towers from which the royal pennants of Kaevil fly and flutter in the wind.
Outside the wall is a smaller settlement, some outgrowth of the city. It lies beyond a wide stream whose origin is visible in the cliffs beyond in a waterfall which plunges down into a small lake. Between you and that settlement there is a small fortified gatehouse protecting the single bridge that crosses the water.
On this side of the stream though your road continues directly to the wall of Kalnathan in which a great gate is set, flanked on either side by statues - a man and a woman, one on each side, robed like scholars and bearing a scroll and a quill pen respectively. Beyond the wall you can see many towering buildings, but none so great as a pair of identical towers close together, standing high above all other edifices of this city. Those towers house the great library that Kalnathan is famed for, sentinels of wisdom and lore keeping watch over all." - Traveller's Almanac, 845
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