Tahngari
Tahngari is a stone city built into a series of cliffs along the southeastern edge of The Cauldron Mountains, well north and east of chike territory and near the entrance to Hearthfire Pass, the safest pass up into the mountains themselves. The city was founded by the first tengu immigrants to arrive in the Utterends region, and a few parts of it remain to this day inaccessible by people unable to fly. Most of the city, however, has been built to cater to all Guivoc species, and Tahngari has become a fixture of Guivoc culture.
Tahngari is where the volunteer guardians of Hearthfire Pass make their base of operations, and it also contains an extensive healing community, including a small natural hotspring in the foothills below. Though it is not part of the annual migration path of any of the nomadic Guivoc communities, the sick and injured often make their way to Tahngari for healing, mostly during the dry season when travel is safer, so even in Tahngari, the population does seasonally fluctuate.
In addition to those ill and injured who only visit long enough to be healed, Tahngari is home to a community of the elderly who have begun to find a nomadic lifestyle difficult. Not all of the Utterends’ elderly come here to retire. Some join the Priests of Knowledge or are called to serve so often in various guild councils that travel away from Shan’daren is rarely a concern. Others, mostly craftspeople, find room to settle in Tchur-i-kahn, and other still are willing and able to continue traveling with their home communities until the day they die. Nevertheless, Tahngari has the highest population of elderly Guivoren per capita, and is therefore considered a repository of wisdom.
Local Tahngari legend claims that the Lord Dragon visits the Tahngari hotsprings when he feels the need to engage in intelligent conversation.
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