B6 The Veiled Society
This adventure will be interesting because in it, Alzar will be with Megala and nothing else. Not even Lastion. There are no helpers.
Welcome to Athaly. There are no sewers, there are just lots of people pushed together. This is largely a human settlement, and other creatures are not rare, but uncommon. The qwith keep to themselves in the woods, the dvergr hate cities like this, Taurians aren’t on this side of Thorasia, the small catlike Guzaks have never been embraced by humans, neither have the lizardlike Sis’sharr, leaving very little opportunity for non-humans to be in a place like Athaly.
What Athaly lacks in racial diversity, it makes up for in economic diversity. From the poorest of the poor to the richest of the rich, Athaly has it all. There are tons of rich and poor mixing it up in the same city. The place is pretty crowded, and it has its share of thieves, gangs, city guards, and more. However, Athaly is more of a border city, so the number of unsavory characters is not as much as you might think.
Athaly currently has three major noble houses, with other minor ones competing for major status. The major houses are Radu, Torenescu and Vorloi.
The place has farmland to the south and west, and forests to the north and east, where Aleigha is with the wagon and the undead and the horses, about half a day’s ride away.
The buildings are usually wattle and daub construction. A few are made of stone or fired brick, like this smithy on the right. There are public wells for water and a river flows through the city.