Asshur
As first among equals of the cities in the Empire of Assuria, the walls of Asshur itself are hung with the skulls and bones of defeated enemies. The city’s highly skilled army consists of mailed archers, spearmen, and charioteers. A ziggurat temple to Ishtar in her aspect of goddess of war is in the center of the city. (She is also worshipped in her aspect of goddess of love, but in Asshur that is done in a smaller temple separate from the great ziggurat.)
King Nabuzerukin II has his court here, making the city the gathering place of influential people, and those who wish to be so. The king’s court is the central location for the skilled astronomers and stargazers who use observations of the night sky and celestial phenomena to predict the future. The court astrologers advise the king on all matters of the state, and lesser astrologers are consulted avidly by the people for information on their own decisions.
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