Minifera

Minifera is the primary city and metropolis, comprising of almost certainly more than half of all Tritons in the entire world. That said, the paradise-city of Sitnalta is thrown about with such casual commonplace phrasing that one would fully expect that half the Tritons had visited it, when in reality the answer is none. Thus we must conclude that Minifera is the lone city of major significance. All others spread around the continent and are significantly smaller. Although they do not keep a written account, it seems that there are around 50 of these smaller Lodges. All are located within 5 miles of the coastline. However, Minifera is significantly further away and it seems almost impossible to locate when navigating a ship unless there is some guidance by Tritons observing the ocean floor. It seems Tritons in and around Minifera tend to prefer that distance so as to keep an eye on the truly deep monsters of the sea.

Government

The political decision-making is done by representation at the Conclave. It seems any Lodge can demand a Conclave, and in their entire history only a few times has someone abandoned a Conclave decision (agreed to an action, but then failed to uphold it). It seems that **Abandoners** are given no mercy and brutally wiped out, so instead they generally will flee and never be heard from again. If the Tritons truly have this disagreement happen as rarely as they say, then likely there are no Abandoner descendent societies out there to study; if instead their rarity indicates a shunning rather than a rarity, then one could possibly find some oath-breaker Triton societies somewhere.
There is no central bureaucracy in Minifera. Although there clearly were royal families during the Age of Heros (the Triton queen Korinna being the most famous) there are apparently no royal families to be found in recent memory. Tritons tell fond tales of their former Kings and Queens in their poems and there are some palaces and many statues that witness the existence of these nobles. It is not clear what happend with the royal linage, but the loud silence among the Triton on this topic indicates that their royal families probably ended up among the Abandoners and the existence and fate of the last King or Queen of the Triton was purged from their collective memory.
There are no taxes taken or central laws made. Each family cares for itself and its lodge; each lodge cares for its families; when lodges must cooperate, a Conclave is called.

Industry & Trade

The primary exports from Tritons are exotic seafoods, gold and magical items from shipwrecks, and consumer goods made from coral and seaweed (which are en vogue among some progressive nobility who wish to show their acceptance of the ‘noble savages’). The primary imports that are often relayed to Minifera are copper (which is used in their electrical systems and does not rust), bronze weapons and armor (which also do not rust), and fruits (which do not grow underwater).
To call it a thriving economy would be an exaggeration: it is neither a critical part of Minifera’s economy nor of the surface economy. But especially in the field of weaponry and armor it is growing.

Infrastructure

Urgent communicating between cities is done via whale song, which can be heard for many miles. A simple command is given to the whale to relay, which sings it out: the next whale hears and takes up the song, and so on. It means nothing to the whales, but other Tritons can understand it as a Primordial code.

Type

Metropolis

Location under

Siren Sea