Wistiria

The capital of Minyavar, also known as The Blossoming Flower. This city takes its name from a local perennial, the Wisteria floribunda, and the Elvish word 'tirios' meaning walled city The capital of Minyavar is by all evidence the most populous and imposing city in all the territories of the Lannuvàr people. It is located in the extreme east of the island and serves as a gateway for any visitors wishing to visit or settle there.

As might be expected given our cultural obsession with potion-making, there are many alchemical workshops hidden in the city of Wistiria. It is also home to many strange and unusually ancient buildings, prestigious from age and grand size. The most visible of these, the Revelation Bibliotheca, has in this age become a cultural centre for the Lannuvàr people, offering scholarship and visual arts displays. This spacious tower joins other central administrative buildings of the Faction including the highest of them all, The Commanders Keep, in forming a dedicated district in the south of the metropolis. None of these grand towers were built in recorded history, but date from an earlier and mysterious era, as Wistiria is a city of many epochs.

Flowing, pyramidal hills enclose the city to the immediate north, somewhat discouraging settlement and inspiring endless speculation as to their strange shape and possible origin. They were first depicted in 🏰Genesis Era by 🟣Grand Master of Imaginations and have drawn much tourism to our Isle since the mists the parted around 🌊Opal Trench.

Looking East to Wistiria from a hill above the delta of the 🏞️Vagr River

Although some small houses have been built within the city’s walls, these form only a part of the residential areas, which spread out in sprawling knots of villages onto the flat river plains to the west. Meadows and pastures exist around these, and woods erupt to fill in the gaps between civilization in the semi-wilderness West of the City.

⛴️Port of Wistiria in the eastern blocks represents a unique cultural feature compared to other Lannuvári cities, as this is the only place in Minyavar that allows cargo and goods to be exchanged with the rest of the Realm of Karitha. People watching at the Port is the best and most interesting way for a Lannuvári to access the rumours that travel the seas and learn news of Realmx at large. Here sits the squat towers of The Bank of Lannuvar, joining the Port to the central districts and easily observing all commerce within the city.

The emblem of Wistiria shows the symbolic colours of the Lannuvàr people and the flower from which it takes its name. Many plants bloom year round in this temperate coastal climate, and the near-immortality of some of the City’s more spiritual inhabitants has lead to a flourishing of many spectacular public gardens.

✍️: 🦉LTKzY The Wise, 🟣J4cks

🎨: 🟣J4cks, 🦉LTKzY The Wise