Sawa Ike
The Dark Matriarch Darth Shōjō
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To make a plot device for Atrisia and something that we collaborated on.
- Image Credit:
Game Informer: Final Fantasy XV - Game of Thrones: Long Bridge
- Gizmodo: Game of Thrones Concept Art
[*]Canon: N/A
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SETTING INFORMATION
- City Name: Sarnoi
- Classification: Metropolis
- Location: Atrisia
- Affiliation: Atrisia's Emperor "controls" the city as it is on the planet but it is largely left alone. The Taintai respected and allowed to live their lives without the influence.
- Demographics: 95 Tiantai
- Wealth: High: Built with a method that is unknown, the stones are interlocking in a way that keeps them from crumbling. The lack of people within the city and storehouses filled with crops that are traded and plied. Ancient treasures from thousands upon thousands of years kept there makes the city rich compared to many other cities across Atrisia.
- Stability: High: Largely ignored and more of a legend or holdover from the old days. The city itself doesn't have much in the way of problems as no one aside from the Tiantai reside there and what minimal contact they allow within the city is handled and then sent away.
- Description: Massive and golden, the ancient city is on both sides of the river and connects to the sea. With sewers, buildings and infrastructure that seems like it was far more advanced for the age of the city. The stonework is intricate in how it interlocks and holds the walls, buildings and roads together. The golden stone while looking valuable is more just a highly polished marble that is smooth to look and touch. THe city is part of Atrisia but they are far apart from being seen by others.
The Ports: Built at the mouth where the river meets the ocean and deep, the prots have changed very little in thousands of years. For ships and water centric vehicles while starships land outside of the mountains and travel on foot through the narrow passes to come to the gates.
The ancient gates of the city carved with murals and reliefs of what is considered creation on the world. The gates are normally barred and entering them from the mountains to the west is generally considered the only way into the city.
The Dragon's Pass: Towards the east, through twisting canyons honeycombed with caves lays the only safe pathway into the Lost Sea and the legendary Dragon kings palace.
SECURITY
Low
- Thick and strong walls
- Location at the mouth of the river with mountains on three sides and the ocean on the fourth
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Sarnoi at the edge of the known world once upon a time, ancient even to the eldest histories of Atrisia. THe Tiantai who live within the city do not claim to be the first civilization started up along the banks of the river Bathi and the Celestial ocean. With its source of fresh water, fish in different colors, crabs and game coming tto drink. They also do not claim to know where the city originally came from or who built it just that it was given to the Tiantai, the true believers of the old ones as a gift. To protect the devout, deep behind its curtain walls and the bridge to what is considered a sister of the city the equally ancient Kunlun.
BOth cities share things in common such as the golden stone used to make it, smooth, interlocking and highly polished. It makes the city look like it is made of gold from the mountains or from space. Buried deep behind its curtain walls, taking massive pains it is expansive going into the mountains. There is room for Jar'kai, XIanlong, Kansai to be side by side and still have room within for the isle of ants... but despite all of its space it holds no more people then that of a village. Less then one hundred, less then even the Tiantai across the planet as only the most devout are even permitted to see the city.
Away from the city the pathways snakes through the ancient golden mountains, into the hidden sea, secluded and expansive where it is legendary with the Dragon Kings Palace. Said to float in the middle of the ocean and taking seven days and seven nights by boat. ABove the sea is storm clouds almost every day of the year. Ion storms, fierce winds and hurricanes that can't be described unless you see them. Even fewer have found the hidden sea. The people of Sarnoi though, the Tiantai are often different, considered the most devout they hold congress it is said with the old ones, in caves and the tunnels below the city.
Where ruins are built upon ruins and their influence has been rumored to call for twice the geneocide of the touched "force users" on atrisia. One in every hundred homes is occupied and there are no children in Sarnoi, the Tiantai do not allow them, those who are coming to them seeking knowledge must go through the mountain pass to the city, through the tigers mouth and the fields of wheat, barley, rice and other food they grow.
Fruit trees are often traded and for ships approaching from the ocean the port of the city is always opened but the trading bazarrs are closed, what the Tiantai lack in silks, exotic spices they make up for with crops, gemstones, crystals and aurodium... oh it is in abundance here. Those who come have one final thing though twenty four days of reflection and meditation at the golden gates. Traders, visitors, those seeking power, knowledge, those who want to prey to their gods. The old ones, the ancient ones, Wapoe, Wutzek, the fallen star and the white raven, the death gods, elemental spirits.
Anything that can happen, anyone refusing to do their rules will find hostil reception. THey won't be attacked, they will not be harmed beyond refusal of services, refusal of guests to food, water and shelter. THose who do are welcomed to ask a boon, ask for what they want but there is a price. The ancient blood price that must be paid, those who seek the knowledge of the Old Ones, the knowledge of the Tiantai, the power they can grant or are believed to be able to grant. Lose that which could be most precious to them.
THeir names written down, their debt carved into their flesh as a marker... a beacon it is said in some legends bringing the old gods to them should they try and back out of offering their pound of flesh. Their child, their first borne heir belongs to the old ones but with no children in the city they are taken somewhere else.. somewhere legend speaks is more ancient deep with the old gods. The work that they have all been working on. The plague, the netherworld and other events coming to the city but the Tiantai have endured with lower and lower numbers every year at times.
