Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26210095-20160405195041/@comment-26210095-20160410232859

Sant-Kadar, or sometimes Sant Meluir: A mercantile city, Sant Meluir is dominated by wealth rather then birth and protected by high walls and mercenary comanies stiffened by local regiments of elite archers. Here, trade is a profession more honourable then arms, due to its extremely protected location,an island sheltered within the Gulf of Harad. It is ruled by a council of the most powerful and wealthiest merchants of the city. It is quite warm with a tropical climate, although it is kept fresh by the constant refreshing sea breeze. It was founded as a trade colony by the Numenoreans, but grew eventualy into a resort destination of sorts for the lords and kings of Numenor, where they could enjoy fine wines, sweet maids, and soothing musics. The later Numenorean lords loved luxury and wealth, and they spent much of their time here, trying to forget their fear of death. Because of the climate, the people of this city make all kinds of exotic wines and spices (and are rumored to make darker substances, namely poisons as the alchemy of Numenor lives on here...). Meluini vintage is said to be the finest in the world. The economy is based on export of their fine wines and spices, but especialy on slaves, notably bed-slaves. They are quite famous for their pillow-houses, as they are known, or Zaira-Zadan. They often serve quite an elite clientel, and the elite ones often see princes and lords. They export these slaves across the land, but keep the best in their own pillow-houses, as to keep the cash flowing. Although there are low-class ones, where men and women are made to sleep with men against their will, there are also high class entertainers, who are educated, and are often skilled harpists, and can hold an intellectual debate with any other man, as well as being extremely desirable, much like the Hererae of ancient greece. The elite courtesans are often quite powerful, and usualy not paid with money, holding significant influence among the man they are with. Varaig lords are known to burn down whole villiages and flay their enemies for a single night with them, and are often at the royal courts and are at the heart of political intruige. The people of Sant Meluir are said to be quite beautiful, as a rare silver hair color is prevalent. It is perhaps the fairest of all the city-states, with its hidden gardens tucked into the city (many are quite secluded and actualy quite hidden, although there are a few obvious ones), the diversity of plant and animal life, and its stunning ocean vistas, its no wonder the Numenorean lords chose here to make their resort. The Meluini are religiously tolerant, but worship a goddess of love and the sea identified with Uinien (although it is a popular statement that the Meluinin have no god but cold, hard gold). The merchants are stereotyped as avaracious, as they are always hungry for new markets and more profits. Although the army might be weak, the navy is strong, and the city is naturaly defendable, as it is defended by high walls, and the Meluini have an elite corps of archers. The land surrounding the city is very rich, and fertile. The stone that makes the city and the surrounding area has a strange purple tint to it. The city has a bustling port, and is the third-largest of the cities, behind Astarus and Akhstar, although the three are around equal population.