#irmstae

[plushiewriting]

Geography of Irmstae

Hi, I'm Shara. I've been asked by the human named Sifka to give you all an overview of the human city of Irmstae. She thought my experience being a tracker might help with giving a clear overview of this city, but to be honest, I have no experience with human cities, though I will do my best.

Well first of all this human city is rather flat. By this I mean that it is build entirely on the ground. As such navigation requires more memory than actual tracking abilities. Luckily the city is divided in smaller subsections. This is achieved through a combination or rivers and walls.

There are two types of rivers. First are the two large natural rivers. The Mienne, which flows from east to west, and the Khaaln, which flows from the north and joins the Mienne in the heart of the city. Several islands are located in these rivers. Most of the river banks have been solidified with stones and as such bridges are needed to travel from one bank to another.

Secondly there are many human made rivers, called canals. Most of the canals are concentric to the joining of the Mienne and the Khaaln. Though there are a few who are positioned more radially. All in all it resembles a weird spiderweb.

The walls are placed more erratic and also differ a lot in size and structure. There is no real structure to their placement. Their purpose still eludes me. They seem to do little else than constrict the traveling of the people who live here.

While everything appears to be build on the ground, the ground is not flat. The city is build on seven hills; at least from the human perspective, I do not find these slight elevations worthy of the name "hill". Most buildings are of comparable height and thus for a hypothetical second level on which one might travel. However this is apparently not allowed. There are a few higher buildings present, sporting towers or spires. climbing these gives you a good overview of the city, but this is also not allowed.

I know this because the humans are yelling at me to get down. I better comply cause these humans often favor violence of dialogue to settle perceived disagreements. So that is all the info I can give you for now. I hope it was helpful.

[plushiewriting]

Introduction to Irmstae

Hello there good Sir or Madam or Individual or Multi-entity.

My name is Sifka and it will be my pleasure to guide you through Irmstae this month. I’m always happy to meet new people, as long as they are friendly themselves.

Irmstae is the capital of the human empire. Of course not every human is part of it yet, but our armies are working tirelessly to get there. Many of these people simply call the empire Irmstae, but honestly only the city is called Irmstae. Some people opt for the Irmstaeln empire, but that seems kind of redundant, you know? Sure we name the provinces, such as the Yisvallian province, but that’s because there’s many provinces. And there’s only one empire. So if you just say the empire, everyone will know what you’re talking about.

Since this is the capital it is a very vivid and diverse city. There’s people from nearly every province here and even people from outside the empire. And even people who aren’t really people. There’s Centaurs and Khin and Elves. Well those last one are rather rare. And it appears there’s different kind of Elves even. Normally we get the blue skinned eastern elves visiting, they usually travels with the Yisvallians. But recently some Elves from up north have come. No one even knew there were elves living there.

If you wonder how I know these things. Well... my lady Fa makes all the dresses for the high court. She gets to meet a lot of interesting and important people that way. And I get to meet a lot of interesting and important servants. Between talking to them and wandering the city on my free days, I pick up a lot of interesting information. But I’ll share more in the coming days, at least if you decided to join me again.

I hope to see you then, bye bye.