annuakat

After so long, time still seemed like a trick of the mind. How much had passed, how little? Did it really matter? The sun rose and then fell again, but the desert was forever in this place. He grasped at it, and as he raised his hand the sand slid through his fingers. It fell faster as his grip...

Amol-Kalit Annuakat House Saladin Estate Afternoon Nilofer savored the soft breeze that shifted the light fabrics of her dress. The heat was more bearable indoors, but even for those used to the Kaliti weather would say this was a particularly... warm day. Her attendants fastened the last few...

The Festival of Renewal. That was the name Medja and her aides had finally come to decide on in the weeks of planning that had preceded the festivities. Amol-Kalit had many of its own holidays, of course, but unrest was something that had to be quelled one way or another. Recent months had...

Annuakat The Broken Duct Field Midday "Step up! Step up!" Cried Ralian Thorpe the Rambler. His gurdy twisting in his fingers as he called out to a group in a field near the walls of Annuakat. The droning tone of the spinning wheel on the strings worked its way passed the crowd at the...

The Tir'Nasha was a grand estate, home to someone named Tes-kartes, a wealthy and influential businessman in Annuakat. He was the owner of a shipping business, one which operated both at sea and on land, and was evidently quite vast. This Tes-kartes was also rumoured to have influence in Cerak...

VEL LUIN Caeso Diemut had not yet been to the storied harbor city of Vel Luin. Even before he reached the harbor proper, he could see over the rooftops the massive Twins looming, the huge statues which marked the seaside entrance—these being Vel Luin's most iconic feature. Trade flowed through...

The heat of the desert could slowly burn a mind to the brink of insanity. With each heavy step, with the sting of the sand hitting them from all sides, and with the endless dry hills, it chips away at a person's strength, leaving them exhausted. Annuakat wasn't any different. The city was...

The Urorak Sands Caravan route was not one to be taken lightly or unprepared. The crossing stemmed from the bustling city of Annuakat, drawing north to Ragash over a vast, open landscape of rolling dunes that carried on for days on end. So easy to be devoured by the desert was it that many of...

It wasn't that he needed to, it was because he wanted to. Kade Anvar had come to Annuakat all the way from Ragash. Which, for a seasoned adventurer might not be a long way, but for Kade? It was the single longest journey for his life. You really got an idea of the sheer scale of the Empire by...

Raaji strolled through the streets or so it seemed. Different languages and voices clashed here within the busy streets, creating an incomprehensible murmur that buzzed above the crowd like a swarm of insects. And so different people and colors of clothes intertwined, following two different...

The Emperors Palace had been a hubbub of activity since the armies return from the Forbidden City. The dead had been wept for, mourned and laid to rest but now, now it was time to celebrate the living. Gerra had defeated a dragon so great that it had cast a shadow over half the world and his...

Annuakat Palace The Hall of Light Evening Contrary to its name, the Hall of Light was not a bright place at all at this hour. Filled during the day by grand, golden beams of sunlight from an open hexagonal pattern of the domed roof, tonight the clouds had obscured the moonlight and left it...

Annuakat Late Evening Gerra The braziers were burning at all corners of the streets, filling the empty walks with dancing golden light. Twilight had come and gone and the moons were high in a cloudless, star-filled night sky. It was quiet when she arrived, the dark elf in her dark armor riding...

Annuakat, lower levels. Beneath the coastal city were a network of catacombs and natural caverns. The upper tier were used as storage. Below this lay the dungeons for the worst prisoners, where no light shines. And below even this? The bones of the ancient city. Former houses and walls. In the...

Annuakat, Amol-Kalit The Royal Palace - First Chamber of the Imperial Mortician Gaheris removed his mask. It was a large and ungainly thing: wooden, beak-shaped, and filled with all manner of pleasant-smelling herb. Not a necessity for the work he did, but it offered a welcome respite. He wiped...

The news of the fall of Salitra had travelled across the waves swiftly. It had not come as a total surprise to the Mchawi people, they had been watching the steady spread of this new Empire for some time now. With trade ports across the West they had been able to gather their information about...

Little sprigs of flowers, pots of honey, saucers of fresh cream. These were the gifts for Little Folk and she watched as they relished in the small offerings. Only those with the Sight would see them scurry hither and thither to complete mundane tasks and miracles; finding a lost sock...

A handful of Immortals and several more trainees assisted in returning the Annuaki horses to their stables. It was the last of four days of training, and for most of the morning and afternoon, drills were practiced outside of the walls of Annuakat to train the Madrasa of War's young conscripts...

The Annuakat Fight Pits roared with excitement and cheer, the crowds gathering and dispersing among the arena's vast array of seats. Voices shouted out for the vendors to come closer, as coin was spent on food and bets alike. Perhaps hundreds of people, a colorful menagerie of races, had come in...

Palace district. Sparing courtyard. Creeping ivy broke the glare of alabaster walls at the far end of the courtyard. Gentle conversation drifted from the alcove of shade offered by the open sides. Mago stood beneath the afternoon sun watching the efforts of a young warrior-in-the-making as he...