[Abe Sargent]

Evenarrow

Evenarrow is one of the largest cities in the region at an estimated (and growing) 55,000 people now living here after it began with fewer than 1000 when Alzar took it over a few decades ago and named it the capital of his fledgling barony.

Today, Evenarrow has a huge docks distract with a giant docks that was updated four times. The most recent a few years ago. It has both a drydocks for repairing their local navy as well as a shipyard for building new vessels.

The docks are surrounded by a large, double thick and double high wall and protects them from the rest of the city. In the center of the Kingdom is a giant Keep, as well as big central area that is well defensed. The area was built big knowing Alzar would expand. He did, but expanded too big, and a second set of battlements are outside of the first central ones. Then after it expanded again, Intaria built a third set of battlements that will be the last needed. It’ll allow expansion up to 200,000.

Evenarrow Infrastructure:


Alzar invested heavily in the city’s infrastructure to give it a unique look. This includes the following:

Teleport Boxes – There are ten teleport boxes around the Kingdom that are used as places to teleport instantly to and back from around the Kingdom.

Plumbing via pipes and two Decanters of Endless water, the water from which is warmed permanently so people have two taps in their homes.

Sewage from those areas piped to charmed monsters that serve as waste eaters such as a Gelatinous Cube. These are also held in rooms they cannot eat out of in case they break their charm.


Continual Light effects in every public space and in every home to provide permanent light. They have covers that can be closed to shut down the light.


Continual Wind – Much like the permanent light effect, this creates a permanent breeze in homes to provide an ongoing fanning effect which can also be closed if not needed.


Alzar’s Permanent Incense – Alzar created a variant of Continual Light and Wind that simply creates a permanent odor. It keeps the sewage from smelling bad, it gives homes a lovely fragrance, and more.


Alzar also created a spell that will change one sense on a object permanently to another. This was used all over the city to give it a haunting effect as colors, sounds, and more of items changed.



Recreation:

Alzar invested the city with a lot of statues, fountains, and more as well as these:


Alzar’s Portal Maze – In the central city park are ten buildings that have no doors. Inside each are eight portals in various compass directions. There is a portal that leads to the first room and starts the Alzar Portal Challenge. There are logical and mathematical clues in each buildings that indicate the correct direction to choose. One is marked exit and will send them back to the starting outdoor portal. The other wrong ones will take them into and trough another portal in the same room. If someone completes the Challenge before the end of fifteen minutes, then they are award the “Alzar Star” which is very popular with locals. A Special Effect spell mentioned above will put a tattoo of Alzar’s star-like sigil on their shoulder. About 20% of residents have the Alzar Star tattoo.


Gravity Free Park – In the 2nd enclosure of the city is the Gravity Free Park. In it is a permanent lower gravity effect that has no gravity. It has roofs to keep people from flying up into the air, and all of the typical park accoutrements are up top instead of on the ground. It’s a big hit with families.


Amphitheater – This beautifully located 5,500 strong outdoor amphitheater is available.


Arboretum Thorasia – The Arboretum Thorasia include many beautiful plants that are native to Alzar’s home plane of Thorasia and cannot be found elsewhere on Pandius.


Arboretum Hamedh – Like the first, across from the Arboretum Thorasia is this one that only has plants from Alzar’s second plane of Hamedh.


Temples:


Korylis – This Immortal of Peace was encountered by Alzar in the M5 adventure, and he ran into a powerful priest of Peace named Finister McAlister. He also gained the powerful artifact called the Periapt of Pax. After securing peace, Alzar created a temple in Evenarrow with Finister as the head priest and using the Periapt to heal and help the local population.


Ssu-Ma – One of Alzar’s five immortal patrons, Ssu-ma was one of the few who had dialed out of the immortal rat race that led to the giant recent cataclysm. As the patron of knowledge, reason, and research, Ssu-Ma made Alzar build a giant temple to him, and this is his third largest in the world. The local clerics here also serve as librarians in the Great Library of Evenarrow.


Infaust – After investing much of his might into the powerful artifact, the Crook of Infaust, after it left Pandius, so did Infaust’s worship. The patron of monks, self-control and more, Alzar created the largest temple of Infaust to serve as a new center of worship for the world, with the artifact helping. Prior to this, Infaust was down to fewer than 20 priests, but now this temple alone has more than 100. They assist the admin roles of the nation as well.

Morena – The crafter who was the first immortal from the dwarves, she was Alzar’s first patron from the Sphere of Matter. She is the patron of crafting, artisans, and dwarves. This was the first temple Alzar built in Evenarrow. Intaria expanded it a few years ago to double its size.


Nyx - The lawful neutral final patron of Alzar is the Entropic Immortal of Undead and Darkness. This temple was built proudly unlike many temples to Entropy. This is the mother of Vix, and grandmother of Intaria and Juri. (Technically she’s the father of Vix. She took human male form, slept with a female, and then birthed Vix)

Pflarr – The immortal of Thought, Magic, Golems, and more, also like Ssu-ma dialed out of the immortal ratrace. The 2nd Patron of Alzar, and mostly worshipped these days in the Hollow World, this is the only active temple to Pflarr on the outside world.

Vanya – The third Patron of Alzar, this Immortal of War, Victory, and Knights is also the one venerated by the Heldannic Knights. She is all about doing things, not necessarily what that thing is. She wants winners, not soldiers for good or ill.


Vix – This temple to Vix was the first built to her but was her 2nd temple, as she converted one of Hel’s out West first. This has become the head temple to the true Neutral Immortal of Entropy who has War, Battle, and Victory as her area of patronage. It was started by Alzar and finished by Intaria. Kelter, her high priest, serves here as well after adventuring with Alzar during the Wrath era.


Alzar - The only temple of Alzar in the world, given the fact that he gives no spells and has no servants, no one else seeks to build one. Built by Intaria, it is humbler in size, but more valuable in contents, than the other temples here.

Isundel – This high profile Patron of the Elves was built by Alzar to give a home to the local Elves that moved here. He had them design the temple to be as true to Isundel as possible given the needs of building. This is a truly beautiful piece of Elven sculpture. This is considered by neutral observers to be the most beautiful temple in the city.

Usamigaras – The former leader of Leeha, a nearby halfling enclave, this Halfling Immortal is highly venerated locally. It was built in the halfling style of architecture.

Coberham Shadowglint - One of the most followed Halfling Immortals is Coberham Shadowglint. He is the patron of Magic and the creator of the darkflame that all Halfling enclaves now have. Another halfling style temple is here and next to the one above.

Bemarris – A local Immortal who came from the Norwold area, he venerates Heroes and Dragonslaying. Due to his local context, he gets more visitors than many others.

Shellsnapper – Succeeding as the first Phanaton Immortal just 4 years ago, Shellsnapper joined Alzar’s party during his Isle of Dawn days, and he served with the court, was adventuring, and then led to moving many local Phanaton tribes to here and took the lead in getting them settled in their new home. He completed the Epic Hero path and is the Immortal of Phanatons.


Other:

The Great Library of Evenarrow –

Great Library at Evenarrow:

The Great Library at Evenarrow is the largest library in Pandius with 1.4 million books in it and growing. The Library has 25 floors, and the ground floor is dedicated for many resources, catalogs, check out, and more. The library is divided into two major sections. 2/3rds of the library, up through floor 18, are considered the public collection, and are available to the general public. Any citizen of Evenarrow can access the public collection, and non-citizens can access it for a one-time donation of 10 gp. On floors 19-25, are the advanced collection, which are not available for normal public use, but citizens can access them for 100 gp one-time donation, and non-citizens can get access either through a donation of 1000 gp or a magical item, rare book not in the archive, or a task given to the library equal to it. Those donations go to the general library fund used to repair books or purchase new ones.

The library features a set of 100 teleport boxes used to teleport books quickly from one floor to another. Priests of Ssu-Ma are in the role of librarians, and Draconus is constantly on duty as the Chief Librarian. The library has a number of protections, and various counter-measures.

There are Symbol spells as wards, as well as Sepia Snake Sigils, Glyphs of Warding, Page Guardians, Xult’s Magical Doom, and more. The major fire-based traps of Explosive Runes and Fire Trap aren’t used. Additionally Bookworm Bane and other spells are used to protect the areas. They used a material in the walls that will prevent scrying into the Library, as well as teleporting. There is also a special magical material in the ground that keeps anything from burrowing up into the library. There are semi-permanent’d the Garrison spell that prevents things like Knock, Dig, and Passwall effects from being used to enter the Library, as well as Invisibility Purge in a few places, and then made Semi-Permanent. Divinatory magic is used for potential folks to access the Great Library to ensure they are doing so for the correct reason.


Alzar had kept 125,000 books in his own personal library, the crème de la crème, which Intaria has also kept. These include vital arcane and research books will be kept, including the key books for making constructs, and will include his spellbooks and such as well.


The Shadow Mage School – Alzar created a school for Shadow mages here that did not exist on Pandius prior. They have around 25 pupils and 5 faculty right now.


School of Magic – Alzar created a smaller school of magic here in Evenarrow. It grew after faculty came from lost Aalphatia to here. It has 22 faculty and almost 100 students.

Foundry – This was built to craft the forms of golems for Alzar to enchant and make into guards and servants. From Amber Golems to Living Statues, it made a lot of the physical aspects of constructs. They grew to specialize into Silver Golems, and made many of that body, as well as they rare and powerful Valorite Golem crafted from the most valuable mineral in the world.


The Alchemy – This store makes a number of potions that are purchases by folks, including the government as needed. Its expanded twice, and now employs 10 Alchemists.


Mercenary Hiring District – Alzar created the world’s first and only Mercenary Hiring area. In here mercenaries and those that seek to hire them must pass many tests such as ESP and Detect lie to ensure that are are telling the truth and are trustable. Some mercenaries only send a person here to hire rather than their whole unit,


3 Magist’s Towers – These are where the three magists for the realm have their homes. They create magic items like the one-shot Spellcache Rings, enchant golems, and more!


Paper Making and Book Making – One of the key industries Alzar added are paper makers and book makers. There are tons of timber industry to lean into. This is one of the largest in the world. Alzar created it to have enough books to copy over his Bookcopy spell onto. This is not a passion project for his kids, and it’s just another industry for Evenarrow.