Zar’Ahal
- The Queen's Palace
- One Thousand Lights
- Underrealm Guard Barracks
- Slave Slums
- Eastern Bastion
"As a Drow you have never lived until you have seen the made stars of our Home. The surface dwellers speak of their sun as though it holds a monopoly on the beauty of light but they are, as ever, wrong. For we have created stars of our own and oh, how they shine." - Attributed to the First Queen
Zar’Ahal is the home of the Drow, both spiritually and literally for large swathes of the Drow population.
When a Drow swears by Zar’Ahal, they are swearing by their homeland so an oath of this nature can be taken very seriously as the majority of Drow see Zar’Ahal as a monument to their people and something worthy of the utmost respect. Located deep underground in the land of the Underrealm, Zar’Ahal lacks the size of some of the surface cities it could be compared to purely due to the difficulties that arise when building a city underground.
Unlike surface cities, Zar’Ahal had to be built very carefully and very deliberately and it shows in how each section of the city is organised into very neat, very uniform, blocks. While it is ever expanding like it’s surface city contemporaries, Zar’Ahal prides itself on being able to maintain a relatively high standard of living and personal space within it’s walls. This is partially due to it’s regulated building patterns and partially because none of the Drow particularly care how well their slaves are house.