You’ve got that fantasy city you made up on the map – here are some neighbors beyond the map’s edges:
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Asmodeen: former capital of the Tiefling empire, back when there was an empire. Made to honor the God-Tyrant, Asmodeus but was never officially recognized as His unholy capital city. The city is guarded by the 13 Altar-Fortresses, each commanded by a warlock-commander.
Exports: goats, obsidian, indentured devil tutors
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Bahamudad: holy city of the Dragonborn, where it is said that Bahamut and Tiamat’s high priests and priestesses made a peace accord and gathered to create the species after the first Dragon War.
Exports: lumber, ancient coins, accountants
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The Walking Cathedral: an ancient, lumbering machine said to be built in a collaboration between saints, sorcerers, devils and gods before the world knew of war and blood. The path it lumbers along is completed once every season, said to be on guard against the Tarrasque.
Exports: buffalo, holy books, oracles and scribes
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Pentacle: a new and growing metropolis made by a cabal of five mages who have built a merchant house from their money made from stolen dragon’s hoards and looted lich’s tombs, surrounded by five towers that are still under construction and stout walls.
Exports: vellum, ink, map-makers
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High Fell: a city in the middle of the Bright Bay, built atop the skyships, airships and spelljammers that fell to the earth during the Storm Wars. The ships are connected via tunnels and gangplanks, purchasing a ship entangles one into complicated relationships with one’s neighbors.
There are Lower Fells all over the Bright Sea.
Exports: fish, otherworldly artifacts, artifact appraisers
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Corvuston: the holy city of the Raven Queen with necropolis walls and many murders.
Exports: marble, embalmers, morticians and undead hunters
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Ulula: the city that clings to the fortress built by the owl god is known for its giant owl steeds and the city’s knights who ride them – delivering messages and slaying monsters that haunt the night.
Exports: wool, flying steeds and astonishingly recent news from afar
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Endë-Osto: the deepest city of the Drow is ruled by a matriach whose throne is said to float in the center of the earth. Her queensguard is made of the palest of the drow sword-maidens who have never seen sun, moon nor stars; they ride dinosaurs bred for traversing tunnels.
Exports: mushrooms, ore, gems and Underdark guides
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J’arr: also know as the City of a 1000 ports it is said to have been created in a single night by a djinn of the first order. J’arr sits at the mouth of the mighty river All’taugh, the Sweet, known for its refreshing and soothing waters. High minarets and brightly colored palaces speckle the skyline and merchants and creatures of all sorts walk its streets. It has been thousands of years since the city’s founding but the mage with ruby eyes still rules as he always has. It is said that in the dunes that surround the city a giant insect god with glittering eyes watches from beneath the surface.
Exports: olives, diplomats, (there is a school for diplomatic and negotiating skills within the city), and pepper.
by Anthony Loinaz
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