Mérsíni

Spanning the confluence of the Ilanos and Çayusk Rivers, Mérsíni is the second city of Pelshtaria. The fertile Ágaç Hills provide much of the city’s wealth, and outside the walls are hundreds of estates worked by slaves. These estates are the homes to the beys of Ágaç, minor nobility descended from the original pioneering settlers. Smaller farmsteads lie on the edge of the hill country on less-secure and less-fertile land.
Sheep are a main agricultural product of the region, and Mérsíni has become a major wool-producing and manufacturing hub. Every household maintains at least a small carding and spinning operation; even the wives of the beys traditionally spin some wool. Cloth is manufactured in large facilities inside the city and provides work for a large class of laborers. Wool merchants come from as far away as the caliphate to trade in the golden domed Grand Suk of Mérsíni, their cargoes easily floated down the Ilanos to Irith Kel.

Settlement

Mérsíni, City of

Ruler

Pasha Iltas Uçar and Council of Worthies

Government

feudal and council

Population

159,341 (107,161 human Pelshtarian ethnicity, 15,985 other human ethnicity, 13,900 hill dwarf, 9,200 Halfling, 4,350 Ashurian, 3,100 Berrini, 2,775 half-elf, 1,900 half-orc, 870 Gnome, 100 other)

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Type

City

Owning Organization

Principality of Pelshtaria