Akhata
The east-coast city of the equatorial belt, facing the open ocean across a rampart of reef. In AC 50 it is a pearl and reef-harvest city, its channels through the coral cut by the old world with a straightness the sea has spent an age failing to forgive.
Key traits
- Its reef-cut channels are Iru People Iru The progenitors, and the only naturally evolved people of Elshore. work: dead straight, deep, and self-scouring, they make Akhata the only safe gate on a drowned-tooth coast.
- In AC 50 its divers work the reef under guild law older than the empire's presence.
- Sea-scorpion shells hang over its doors: harvest trophies and door-blessings in one.