Eauprofonde

Eauprofonde is a City-State resulting from the imaginary Monde of the forgotten Royaumes. It is located along the Côte of the Swords on the continent of Féerune. Eauprofonde, also known under the name of the Cité of Splendors is one of largest and more important cities of the continent and is directed by a group of named anonymities the Lords of Eauprofonde . The capital of the area of Eauprofonde counts nearly 1.350.000 inhabitants.

General information

Eauprofonde, or the Quoted of Splendors , is most important and the most influential city of North and perhaps of all Féerune. For this reason, one considers that it belongs to the Grounds of the West, although it is located at 250 kilometers in the north of the village of the Gué of the Scraping-knife. The road of Eauprofonde is well paved and kept well. The city is a center of trade between the rich person mining grounds of north, the commercial kingdoms of Amn and Calimshan in the south, the kingdoms of the Inland sea in the east and the kingdoms maritime and the merchants of the west.

Eauprofonde draws its name from great sea-beds of its remarkable natural port, and the city which rose at this place became an important commercial crossroads of the Kingdoms of north. More than one million people chose to settle in Eauprofonde. The city extends towards north since the sea and skirts the sides of the Mont Eauprofonde, an impressive rather particular mountain. It is told that formerly, the Eauprofonde Mount sheltered a dwarf citadel, and a network of tunnels and passages furrow the mountain and its depths. The majority of them are still occupied by frightening creatures whose presence in the mountain is quite former to the foundation of the city. One of the reasons for which Eauprofonde attracts so many adventurers is than it has a vast space of exploration, Montprofond, conveniently located near temples and of places of care.

In spite of its size, Eauprofonde is a peaceful city. This is due partly to the efforts of the Masked Lords, but also with the militia of Eauprofonde and also with the proximity of Port-Cranium, city which, it, attracts a rabble much more equivocal and sordid. Port-cranium is located in the Top Outreterre and is just below Eauprofonde.

History

Eauprofonde is mentioned for the first time in the neighborhoods of the year 900 CV - not as a city but rather like the gathering place of lords of war. In 1032, the city had already taken some importance when Ahghairon became the first Lord of Eauprofonde; this date is regarded since as that of departure of the Calendar of North.

The growth of the city was so spectacular that in 1248, the City of Died and the Guilds had been already established downtown. The Masters of Guild seized the power a little later amorçant a period of disorders without known particularly destroying truce under the name of “War of the Guilds”. The War of the Guilds ended only when the last two surviving Masters of Guild imposed their own laws. It is only into 1273 that the system of current government (or more exactly, the absence of a government itself) was founded. The Magistère S were created this year and the Lords of Eauprofonde took again their secret role definitively.

For this time, the city has continued to increase and thrive. The human ones and the other races come from all the Kingdoms to make fortune in the City of Splendors. With the wire of time, the merchants having thrived created guilds and set up in nobility, supporting mysterious Seigneurs of Eauprofonde who makes reign the order in the city without to tyrannize it, thanks to the guards of the city (soldiers), to the guet (the police force), and to a score of magistrates out of black dress. Eauprofonde, consequently, became a very tolerant city towards the various races, religions and lifestyles. This situation strongly encouraged the trade and Eauprofonde is now an immense cosmopolitan city.

Government

Eauprofonde is directed by a council whose members are unknown. These secret Lords of Eauprofonde hide their identity derrières of the magic masks (called heaumes). When they appear in public, nobody is able to identify them. To know which is the Lords is a very common subject for conversation in the nobility aquafondienne and some regard as a play to discover their identities - a all the more confused play as the Lords themselves mix with the propagation with the rumors. Everyone knows that Piergeiron Paladinson, Gardien of Eauprofonde and Ordering Watchers, whose gilded palate dominates the center of the city, is one of the members of the Lords. He is the uncovered Lord (sometimes called Seigneur discovered) and relates of mask neither on its face, nor to its heart.

The archimage Khelben Arunsun (called " Stick noir" ) was him also one of the Lords, and perhaps even the chief among them, exceeding Piergeiron. Identity of the other members made public forever. The names of Mirt the merchant, the Larissa courtesan and Texter the paladin are related to the Lords although it is obvious that it remains to be proven (or to refute) that they are Lords well.

The Lords appear publicly only in the Court of the Lords in order to listen to the charges of murder, treason, misuse of the magic, as well as the calls of the courses lower. In general, the Lords are at least four with being present, but it happens that one sees six or seven of them, to see even up to nine (but that is rare). Piergeiron chairs the court and poses the totality of the questions. The other Lords speak via his word. The Lords are masked and vêtus of similar dress of manner from/to each other. Their dresses are formless and black, equipped with a black cape, and their masks entirely cover their head and their face. These masks have magic properties preserving of the divination, and the dresses give to all the lords same appearance, also by magic. The statute of Khelben as Masked Seigneur was revealed later, only after he resigned of his station. In the series of novels the song and the sword , Danilo Thann, nephew of Kelben coming from an important family of Eauprofonde having much influence, became one of the Lords.

Port-cranium

Port-cranium is a village located at a few kilometers of the town of Eauprofonde. It is a place stripped of law where cross slave, pirate, as well as thehuman ones which adulterates with not very advisable creatures like the illithid S, the Drow S, the spectators and other similar creatures come from the gate towards the Outreterre located not far.

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