Ak'anon

Beneath the Steamfront Mountains, the gnomes have constructed a wonderous city of clockwork machines powered by steam from geothermal vents within the mountains. Guards, laborers, and vendors are clockworks, while the gnomes occupy the roles of craftworkers, researchers and so on. Oddly, administrative roles are generally filled by clockworks as well--even the king is a clockwork.   Only gnomes may access the city proper without significant faction work, but the foreign quarter, the only above ground section of the city, is open to all peoples who have not ruined their faction with Ak’anon. The city proper is home to Evoker, Conjurer, illusionist, and Cleric (Clerics of Brell) trainers.   The entrance to the city is located high up on a cliff face. It is accessible only by ascending in a mechanical lift from the foreign quarter (or by flying or making an very difficult climb up the icy cliff).