Avemroth

“The Blue City” of Avemroth sprawls throughout most of the eponymous island off the eastern coast of Vicisi between the Isin Strait to the west, the Quicksilver Ocean to the northwest, and the Azure Ocean to the east and south. With almost a million documented residents, Avemroth is the second most populous of the Free Cities. Exercising hegemony over the entire island, Avemroth is by far the largest of the Free Cities by area, with a trip from the southernmost point to the northernmost tip requiring weeks by horseback and days by sea. The terrain of the island is rocky to mountainous throughout, with swampland and desert in the south posing difficulties to habitation. Sprawling docks throughout the island lead to constant trade with both Isinroth and Syr in legitimate ports and smuggling and piracy in illegitimate ports. The “City of Temples,” Avemroth has temples to all ten Blessed Gods and all five Dragon Gods, although the largest temple is that of Averae in the Isin Strait to the west, for which the city and island are named. Income inequality is rampant in Avemroth, with the city’s rich elite occupants of the lush central highlands being among the wealthiest in the Free Cities, while its poor everywhere else in the island are among the most destitute.

Economy

Avemroth's chief form of wealth is trade—both legal and illegal—with Isinroth to the northwest and Syr to its south. An airship port in Clensbrim facilitates trade primarily with Tyrose and, to a lesser extent, Kertos. Tourism of Avemroth's Old City, Loch Aben cultural district, and Thysis Square shopping and entertainment district along with the massive Stedweg Hippodrome provide significant revenue to the city's elite. The Blaodun Games, hosted every five years by the Temple of Isin, bring significant revenue into the city. The city's highland farms sustain the agricultural needs of the island, and Serenity Strath produces expensive beef famous throughout the Five Cities. The Kekhinim Vineyards export the finest wines in the Free Cities. Temperate summer breezes off the Azure Ocean attract wealthy residents of all the Free Cities to vacation homes in the Amwics seasonally.