Cymilard
The grand capital of the Kingdom of Brounthia, Cymilard is a gleaming city that sits on an island in Lake Berring. The heart of the city is the Palace of the Queens, a soaring edifice that seems to float out of the lake mists. The palace and most of the older buildings at the city’s center are composed of white dolostone mined from the nearby Andøvan Mountains. Every day, 100 peasants polish the stone of the old city to a gleaming sheen. Surrounding the palace and nearby buildings is the High Wall, a tower and bastion studded with red granite brought from the distant World’s Edge Mountains.
The city has spread from its original walls to cover the entire island, forming the Lower City of tile-roofed houses and shops, paved streets, and open squares. A causeway links the island to the shore of the lake where sits the New City, the much larger unplanned metropolis of commoners who support the nobles, merchants, and burghers on the island. The houses here are made of wood, the nicer ones of stone for the first floor with wooden upper floors. The streets are not all paved, and the buildings tend to lean or cram together to form twisting alleyways and dead-ends. The New City is ringed by a wall of gray stone cut from the World’s End Mountains and, although in good repair, it not nearly as pretty as the High Wall.
Cymilard is the personal demesne of the queen and a great source of her income. Lake Berring is rich in fish and the Upper and Lower Red Rivers bring trade, gold, and silver to the city. An overland road leads to Hesten Down on the Great Ocean, making Cymilard the kingdom’s main trade nexus. The shores of the lake are rich farmland, and most of this is also owned by the queen.
As the feudal lord of the city and the kingdom, the queen has a great deal of power in Cymilard. She personally holds court to hear the concerns of her people and sit in judgment of crimes. Most criminals, being both violators of civil and religious law in Brounthia, face harsh sentences. Being a nation with a highly stratified class system, there are different laws for nobles and commoners. The former face the stripping of their titles and lands followed by public humiliation and execution. Commoners are simply sent to mines in the Andøvans or the World’s End Mountains.
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