Wendyl
(population:
712,000)
[Resources:
Horses,
Copper, Sapphires, Trout, Steel, and Cattle]
Description:
The city of Wendyl over centuries of careful planning, started
for
reasons unknown by the city founders, has developed into a shape
reminiscent of
a gigantic starfish. Famous for its
bazaars and fine horses, Wendyl is also home to the annual tourney, at
which
new warriors are chosen, and She Who Sees accepts new consorts. This fair is always held in the very centre
of the 'starfish' which is year round the heart blood of this thriving
metropolis. Although technically not
within the city, Wendyl has also adopted the Crypts, which are a vast
sprawling
series of man made subterranean mausoleums, which house all of the
ashes of the
dead Consorts, and those of the She Who Sees as well, who ever was,
from the
first to the last, or so it is claimed.
It is well documented, and therefore, I believe it to be true,
that any
who have ventured into the crypts, if they emerge, never seem to be the
same to
the people who knew them well. In fact,
they always assume a different name henceforth. The
only exception to this rule appears to be those who have
undergone the rites of Consort, or Acolyte.
This I am willing to put credence to only because of the fact
that the
Crypts are still growing year by year.
The Crypts of Wendyl there
-by rank as the Eleventh
Marvel of
the world. The other adopted creation
of Cindar ingenuity is the Astro-Lab, situated upon Crag Hill, which
ironically
enough is the tallest mountain within the Maiden Range, but is
surrounded by a
series of knife edged hills within the misty valleys separating the
Maiden
Range from the smaller Cradle Mountains.
It is from the summit of crag hill that the Cindars were first
able to
map the Seas of Heaven, scanning stars and moons with greater detail
than the
eye can see. It was from these
observations that the peoples of K' Jerang-Ti were first made aware
that
Crae-Ti, and Glaen-Ti, were in fact whole other worlds that circle the
Sun
along with our own. Some cultures, the
Oso, and Ni-kie in particular have dismissed these findings as mere
propaganda,
but it is not so. the Astro-Lab ranks
as the Sixth Marvel of the world.
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