Laishah
Laishah is a city in eastern Baalthaaz, up the Zanosh River from the capital of Perazim where the river is joined by one of its tributaries. The area around Laishah produces ship masts and cedar wood, and forestry is one of the region’s most common occupations. Another is mining; the foothills of the high Scythirian Mountains have a great deal of mineral wealth. The city takes in the smelted metals or raw materials, and sends much of it downriver as finished products. The city of Laishah is known inside the country for producing good weapons and armor, but the wealthy prefer to purchase theirs from Tarresh, one of the Antioch City-States.
Laishah has its quota of temples to the major deities and shrines to many of the Seventy Gracious Gods, but it also has one most cities lack. In the hills outside the city stands a major temple to Agamid, god of fire, who in most places is represented only by a small, out-of-the-way temple or shrine. Rumor claims that Queen Hacalia is a devotee of this uncomfortable deity, and that this is one source of her personal influence and wealth. The motto of the priests of Agamid is that “great power requires great sacrifice,” and Agamid demands blood — that of a thinking being and preferably with a long life ahead of it, which is cut short. Not many people are willing to make the sacrifices required by the deity, but in times of great trouble in Baalthaaz, the crowns have been known to come to Laishah ready to sacrifice whoever is necessary to protect the country.
Queen Hacalia has firm control of her region of the kingdom, but she is widely known for her beauty. Taller than many men, she has rare golden-blonde hair that falls in ringlets about her shoulders, and eyes the blue of gathering storm clouds. Rumor says that she is always on the lookout for a new man who can stand up to her, to replace her current fancy.
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