Avarast

The city of Avarast, built in only a single season of spring and projected to be one of the largest cities on Reverie.

History
The city of Avarast was created using an powerful magical item called the Magna Initium, which resembled a six foot tall golden egg etched with complex runic sigils capable of absorbing vast amounts of building materials laborers agreeing to work within. Over the span of the spring of 962, Avarast amassed over a hundred thousand gold in donations along with nearly a thousand man hours of labor from both skilled and unskilled mages, laborers and engineers. The result of their hard work led to the creation of Avarast, the city deemed free of sin.

The collection of the projects donations were led by Griniek, who now resides as Avarast's head advisor next to Lord Darkan, the owner and ruler of Avarast. With the efforts and charity amassed in the city of Charon, the city came to fruition a half a year later with nearly two hundred years of apparent labor and development having occurred in this short timespan.

Culture
The city itself is immaculately clean, with the routine of it's citizens managing their businesses and services almost like clockwork. There is seldom a crisis that occurs, that the active military does not have some sort of plan in writing with how to deal with. The frequency of crime is fairly low, as the punishments for even petty misdemeanors tends to be a minimum of one year of apparent time in the city's prison, Carcarem.

Entertainment
The average citizen usually possesses one or more artistic or musical skills, as the cost of living for the average citizen remains fairly low due to the autonomy of most of the cities basic functions. This gives the typical unskilled laborer time to explore an artistic profession, with a highly competitive setting among popular artists and musicians.

The arena of Forum is another popular hotspot among the population, with six teams forming the politics within determining the types of matches held, quantity of fighters and quality of their gear, to even the restrictions held on and between matches. Most of the common folk favor the Trickster's team, the military favoring the Marshals, the upper class and followers of the Sin's Scourge Church favoring the Hierophants, scholars and practitioners of magic favoring the Archmages, adventurers and new arrivals favoring the Guardians, and arena veterans and staff favoring the Champions.

Religion
Religion to lawful and good deities is a fairly common practice, with worship of evil and certain chaotic deities either being frowned upon or outright banned in practice. The Sin's Scourge church stands as an organization that encourages such worship not to one god in particular, but towards a direction that goes against the Sins and their ideals. Talk of the Sins within the city is taboo, and acting as an open supporter of them can be punishable with up to a life sentence in Carcarem.

Magic
The practice of magic in Avarast is highly encouraged, and those with aptitude are often encouraged to practice their talent through self study. Necromancy in particular is one of the more defined practices, and spells that normally carry an evil nature to them are analyzed, adapted and discussed at length within the few schools that teach fourth ring capable scholars.

Technology
Avarast's most notorious technological advancement is it's integration of undead and constructs as the main workforce to the majority of the cities used unskilled labor. It is a known and agreed upon clause of those who live within the city that when it's citizens pass away, their bodies will become a part of Avarast's tireless workforce. These automations are a combination of cadaver and clockwork, and remarkably cheep and efficient source of labor whose construction is obfuscated and kept as a priority secret to city staff. The majority of such units are outside of the cities main walls in the Mercator district, harvesting crops, working similar materials and performing strenuous tasks tirelessly.

Locations
Regius District -

Militum District -

Malefictus district -

Nauta district -

Forum -

Pauper district -

Mercator district -

Carcerum -

Castle Darkan -

Notable People
Darkan - The leader and project owner of Avarast.

Griniek - Project manager and head of Avarast.

Contributions

 * Obelius received a mild blessing from their contribution of Goods, as well as an honorific of their likeness in a few murals through out the market of Forum.


 * Khan, despite their efforts with a grand exhibition match at the Phantom Arena in Charon, Griniek was unable to acquire Atog a special pardon to participate in the new arena within Avarast. Their efforts however ensured the arena was fully constructed and fully operational at its debut, with a ranking system and specialized match type set up for participants of all colors of fighting. A statue has been erected outside the the of the colosseum in hislikeness, and Khan has been offered the chance to design an arena match type for use in professional play- but only if he would act as the matches opening participant.


 * Bayushi Masami's training of the new soldiers for either personal or professional use has gone a longer way than originally anticipated, with formal and strict training techniques set in place to ensure the city military was well disciplined. Due to this, the armor the standard guards wear around the city is similar in design to their own, with a position of power as the Militum Districts Captain of the Guard open to her.


 * Atlan, being the first to wear the colors of Avarast and sing it’s praises in Charon, he has been given ownership of the current largest Inn and Tavern- currently the only such establishment in Forum. It is fully staffed and will operate as instructed by Atlan, and will provide free food and lodging- tax free, whenever he stays in Avarast.


 * Mother Astrashaan's constant care and nurture of the sick and wounded during the project lead to a truly tireless effort from those under her care. This influx of reliable labor has earned her majority ownership of the Nauta Districts own Mercy Hospital, which will care for any visitors and adventurers that require it within Avarast.


 * Zhepe's contribution was small but it did not go unnoticed, and because his efforts towards helping Avarast’s Magic was partly responsible for the massive over projection of arcane support, he has been offered a small residence in the Malefictus District for scholars and mages.


 * Eragoth, as one of the most active supporters responsible for donating resources to every category in copious quantities, has been offered the position of second in command of Avarast’s royal military in the Regis District, as well as a personal room on the first floor of the prestigious Castle Darkan.


 * Vralya Felzhad contributed with a massive donation of Goods devoted to ensuring the city was not only clean and maintained, but also polished and painted with beautiful artwork and made with high quality materials. The largest noble villa, the ‘Felzhad Estate’ in the Regis District of Royals and Nobles, was given to her fully staffed and under paid salary. In addition to this, she was given an exclusive writ of passage to any and all events, banquets or meetings held within Castle Darkan.


 * Ssereth was the project's leading contributor, boasting a whopping 30% of the total Goods needed for the project, and offered nearly double the contributions of others on all categories. A special honor has been offered to them, being the position of advisor to Darkan for the city of Avarast. In addition to this honor, a personal suite on the third floor of Castle Darkan was placed on permanent reserve for Ssereth.