Ronarian Locations - Part 1

While there is no place in the world without history, some places have less exciting histories, and many have shorter histories.

The city of Arianna is a present-day callback to the ideals of the age of magic, and while it is part of the kingdom of Wetisa, and the current throne of it's Queen Mysti, it is a magocracy in all other ways - even the queen has some magical powers.

For those of you who don't know, a magocracy is a city whose ruling class is formed of, and decided by the members of the city who can use magic, and in a standard fantasy setting, that means arcane magic, instead of divine. I'm sure divine magic has some sway in magocracies, but that's the basic definition of them. But, back to the city.

Arianna is smilar in many ways to the cities built during the age of magic, in that rather than building structures on archetectural stability, they are built on magical supports, leading to Nine almost spindle-thin towers dozens of floors high. Their open construction allows the high updrafts to whip through the large windows (because hey, who'se going to fire an arrow through a window twenty stories up?) making the entire city a place aways literally humming and whistling. Most days the inhbitants agree that the sounds are soothing and pleasant, but there are rare days where the sound obviously becomes grating, forcing the people to use ear protection against the sounds.

The centralmost tower is the castle, and at over fifty floors tall and containing nearly a thousand rooms, is easily the largest tower on Ronar outside of the tower-city of Mer. Like the other towers, the walls are white plaster and rather than supporting them with beams and stone blocks like oter cities, or even other buildings in the city, the floors and walls are all supported by extremely thin and magically strong threads of metal - or even just walls of force. Some people in the city worry that a particularly clever sabateur could knock out an entire section of the city by toppling the towers, but the mages in charge of maintaining them assure them that the wards are strong enough to endure anything but the strongest of magical assaults. They survived the reign of Astra, the age of souls, and a seventeen year long inheritance war, after all.

The city itself is circular in nature,even to the point that the buildings have curved fronts facing the castle, and backs facing the outer walls. Almost exclusively, they are one tory tall, and built from brick, fronted with white plaster, giving the red-paved streets city a clean, serene feeling.