Tanuuru
The west-coast city facing the Dravak Tides Place Dravak Tides The western ocean of Elshore, the open water reaching west of the equatorial and southern continents., built where the old world wanted a window on the largest ocean there is. In AC 50 it is the empire's far-western port of registry, more lighthouse than metropolis, keeping the coastal lamps lit out of pride as much as need.
Key traits
- Its Iru People Iru The progenitors, and the only naturally evolved people of Elshore. light-tower still takes the ocean weather head-on; the lamp chamber is Maan People Maan The most numerous people of Elshore and the baseline cultural reference of the age. oil and mirrors now, in a socket made for something better.
- In AC 50 the western coasters provision and overwinter here; the town under the tower is small, salt-cured, and unhurried.
- The Dravak swell can be heard in every room of the city. Residents stop hearing it; visitors stop sleeping.