Naoth Tylasur
Naoth Tylasur is the greatest city of Alithanar. Situated within the province of Naoth Tyalsur, the city is the capital city of both said-province and continent. Human merchants are allowed to trade here, and the city has been a busy centre of international trade since the beginning of the Time of Troubles. Home to several thousand High Elves the fortress city is guarded by 5,000 strong Naoth Sea Guard.
As the source of Eataine's prosperity, Lothern has long been the traditional seat of the Phoenix King — Caledor the Conqueror kept court here, and few of his successors chose to break with that tradition. The Naoth Sea Guard, meanwhile, are the finest of Alithanar's warriors. Skilled in both spear and bow, these veteran soldiers fight the Phoenix King's battles both on land and at sea. Should the armies of Alithanar make war in a distant land, it is invariably the ships of Naoth Tylasur that bear them hence, and the disciplined advance of the Naoth Sea Guard that will seize the beachheads.
Demographics
90% High Elf, %5 Human, %5 Various
Government
Ruled by a Prince of Alithanar, answers directly to the Phoenix King
Industry & Trade
Even at dusk, the streets are busy, horsemen riding alongside wagons full of silk bales, fish on ice, and piled high with fruit. Vendors sell everything from snacks to jewellery. The inner gates of the city are monitored by soldiers in the tabards of the Sea Guard, their manner making it obvious that they knew most of the elves coming through, and were known by them in turn. When important figures such as the White Lions are spotted coming their way, the guards' easy manner is altered perceptively as they make themselves stand taller, look sterner, and salute smartly.
Infrastructure
Naoth Tyalsur is the pinnacle of an economic powerbase. The city itself is a massive port city, the harbor is filled with anywhere from 150 to 500 ships at any time, not including military vessels.
The City is also home to some of the most skilled and high-quality craftsman and artisans. Blacksmiths' furnaces are almost constantly ablaze while stone masons, woodworkers, jewelers, and crafters create works fit for the Phoenix King himself.
Architecture
Beyond the inner walls, lampposts lit with incandescent magic keep the night at bay. Long streets wind up tree-clad hills. Many flights of stairs run up the steeper slopes. There are palaces with towers and spiked minarets. Palm trees, roof gardens. Seemingly endless streets full of echoing, half-empty palaces, and there are fountains everywhere. All seems like a legion of sculptors had been kept busy for many ages of the world beautifying the city with statues of mages and warriors and kings, as well as lawmakers, orators and poets. The stone is worked to look life-like, auras of glamour and ancient warding sorceries protecting the work from the ravages of time and weather. Most of these, however, were made for political reasons, to represent the power and wealth of the people who commissioned them. As the White Lion Korhien Ironglaive once put it: "They praise the ancestors of those people, or in many cases the living elves themselves".
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