Yarrunga
Yarrunga sits on the coast at the mouth of the Imapa River, which runs west from the Kalkadoon Hills. In addition to the coastal road, a road passes through the jungle directly from Morongle to Yarrunga, cutting the distance between those two locations roughly in half. Yarrunga was built around a set of buildings of the ancient ones — a fortress, arena, public buildings, a bathing house, and others whose function can no longer be determined. Some of them were easily restored; others took a great deal of effort but were eventually finished. Now sages from all over southern and central Libynos come here to study the buildings and argue over the meanings of the interior mosaics and the words carved in the walls.
As a relatively central location, Yarrunga is where the national gladiator competitions are held. The games include a variety of athletic events as well as feats of agility, strength, and endurance, and individual and group combats. The mixed groups and women’s team combats are particularly popular right now, and speculation is high about which contestants will actually make it through to the national competition.
A tall, open hill outside the city is a popular location for rituals invoking Great Eagle, the creator-spirit of wind and storm. About 10 miles from the city is an area people avoid: the ruins of a village from the clan wars, burned and salted so that even now little grows there. No one would ever admit to it, but from time to time people use the village as a ritual location for Crook-beak, the creator-spirit who brought covetousness, jealousy, and taking into the world in his envy of the other Eagle spirit, who was created first while Crook-beak was created last.
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