Nilas
The single Maan People Maan The most numerous people of Elshore and the baseline cultural reference of the age.-held city on the otherwise Bar People Bar Towering, massively built, and engineered for high-load work and vertical terrain, the Bar are the strength line. island of Baramma Place Baramma The great jungle island east of Tarkdaara, separated from the mainland by the Bram Sea and home to the Bar., a stone-built port on the coast of the Bram Sea. It is the empire's foothold and customs gate on an island it does not otherwise rule: the harbour from which ships sail to the empire and the wider world, and the place from which Maan soldiers, Randenist priests, and imperial units are dispatched into the Bar interior. Mixed Maan and Bar, watchful and counting, it is the way off the island and the eye that marks who leaves.
Key traits
- The only city on Baramma where the Maan live; the rest of the island is Bar land, the Free Clans exiled there under imperial order.
- A stone-built coastal port on the Bram Sea, in the warm low latitudes, with a mixed Maan and Bar population.
- The island's way out: ships leave Nilas for the empire and any other corner of Elshore.
- Roughly a day's travel north-east of Yara Village Place Yara Village The centre village of the Free Clans on Baramma, a vertical settlement grown into the dense fern forest and the canopy above it: a forest that learned to speak., which lies inland to the south.
- The Yara river runs from near Nilas toward the ancient Iru People Iru The progenitors, and the only naturally evolved people of Elshore. city of Onnila Place Onnila A city on the east coast of Baramma, facing the open waters, and the first Iru-era settlement raised on the island in the age of discovery. on the east coast.
- An imperial administrative and military hub, from which soldiers, Randenist priests, and Medika units are dispatched inland under Maaniskaar authority.
- A trade port where New Arram Language New Arram New Arram is the living lingua franca of Elshore, spoken by every sapient people on the planet., the empire's stamped script, marks the manifests.