Elise
When Oxibbul fell to goblinoid marauders roughly 1,600 years ago, its surviving residents fled across The Fingers where they founded the sister settlements of Elise and Glaivr. Unlike its counterpart, Elise celebrates intellectual achievements and strictly enforces the numerous laws on its books. The wizard Elisa, the town’s ruler, defers the adjudication of Elise’s legal code to her three subordinates, Sarah, Joyce, and Sabrina, all of whom serve as judges and are also accomplished wizards in their own right. They and the 150 men-at-arms enlisted in the town guard keep the peace within Elise.
Although the sister settlements differ in their outlooks toward law and order, they remain on friendly terms. Elise exports its agricultural products to its larger trading partner, while Glaivr reciprocates with furs and timber. While Elise benefits greatly from its economic relationship with Glaivr, the same cannot be said about its romantic entanglements. Elisa continually rebuffs the unsolicited advances from Glaivr’s leader Lord Bertrand, whom she thoroughly despises. Elisa’s blatant disinterest in marrying him fails to curtail his relentless interest in her.
Elisa instead focuses her attention on the town’s renowned library, which contains many works from Oxibbul’s repository of books and tomes. The library occupies a stone complex near Elisa’s central tower inside the wooden palisade encircling the settlement. The library has acquired additional resources over the years to add to its already impressive collection and offers to purchase any noteworthy items that would interest Elisa or her apprentice wizards for a fair price. Visitors may access the library for a substantial fee or even hire a sage to assist with their research. The library may be one of the finest sources of esoteric knowledge in all of Akados. Adventurers considering a trek to Tsar or Tsen often stop here first to understand the history of these fabled locales and to get a preview of what horrors await them in these forbidden realms. Rumors also speak of a lost manuscript hidden or concealed in another tome somewhere within the library. The writing known as Chaos Reigns is supposedly the handiwork of none other than Orcus himself. Despite Elisa’s extensive efforts and those of several other arcane practitioners, no trace of the document has ever been found, if it even exists in the first place.
Settlement
Elise, Town of
Type
Town
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