High Rose
Demographics
The exact number of inhabitants od High Rose is never possible to count. Being a world's biggest hub people from around the world travel to High Rose for sometimes only day, with same of them staying forever. The migrations, shifting of buildings and constant changes in city layout makes in nearly imposible to count the population precisely.
The roughly esstimated number of inhabitants is 3.5 million, with around 1 million being wood elves; 0.7 million being pixies; 0.5 million being forest gnomes and 1.3 million being all non-native races.
Government
High Rose is a elevtive monarchy. Ruler is chosen by randomly selected group of fey native inhabitants of High Rose. Current king is King Callon the Strong, a wood elf. His reigns lasts over 100 years and counting, however his recent years as a King were filled with controversy and intrigue. In 1265 his wife, filled with envy and power-hunger, banished Callon's brother from the court. He spent three years with the Keepers up until the Holy War broke. Firstly helping the guild, in the end proved his loyalty to his brother. Laegon returned to the court. In 1279 Laegon, and shortly after Lilian, disappear. A close group of adventurers find them and figure out that it was the queen who kidnapped them. She ends up in jail
Once a week a group of sphinxes enter the city and land on ____, the bigest bridge in the city. They use their wit and cunning to mediate the arguing and judge the cases presented to them. They stay for the whole day and then suddenly, even if in the middle of a case, they leave.
Defences
High Rose is the most protected city in the entire world with many layers and techniques of protection.
Walls
The entirety of the city is located in the middle of sculpted monolith, created by Daramunz. Its outside walls are overgrown with poisonous and magical plants that make the, already quite dangerous, climb impossible (e.g. making the climber fall asleep near the top, which makes them fall and in the most cases die).Sky
Rose is nonspotable from birds view, because of clouds and fog created with illussion magic.Entrances
There are only two entrances to the city, both by boat. Rose is located where a river meets the sea, so one entrance is the ocean entrance and the other is where the river meets the monolith. Both have heavy gates and other magical forms of defences.Technology
Rose is being protected by a lot of pixe technology.Inside
City, somewhat living itself, doesn't like intruders so any trys result in the intruders getting lost within the city. With the movement of buildings and streets not even a map can help those ill willed.Infrastructure
Petals
The city is curved into a monolith and is multilayered. Each petal (district) has a different altitude than other petals.Pixie technology
A thing that destinguishes High Rose from other bigger cities is the sheer amount of technology used casualy by everyday people. The technology is present in almost every aspect of residents' lives. The most notable one is the forms of transport between different petals. These forms include:- elevators: magical bubbles, clouds, vines, trampolines and many others
- air travel: giant butterflies, clouds, flying boulders, and many types of catapultes (giant flowers, statues etc.)
Guilds and Factions
Financial factions
Various trading guildsReligious factions
Clerics of Keeper and Keepers Clerics of Lamaranth Clerics of Lin Clerics of Raven Clerics of Selune Clerics of Zook are often hired as guides through the city. Only downside is that they are very fond of pranks and will pull them on their current followers if they ever get a chance to.Research and educational institutions
Tech workshops and labs Clerics of Milyavie and Crimson Leaf members.Social groups
Architecture
The interior of this multistoried city, like everything fey, is extremely beautiful and dangerous, often missleading travelers. Every building or element of the city is made with extremel care and focus on the details. Everything is made out of the same stone, buildings are very simmilar to each other and their arrangement is extremely chaotic. All of the streets are quite narrow (wide enough for a waggon) and are never going straight for too long, always making a turn in an unexpected moment. To reach upper floors one need to use the stairs, entangled bridges or elevators, part of pixie technology. Buildings and streets often move and shift, making it difficult to travel through the city. Rose is a place of chaos and emotions that lead travellers through the city. Map won't help you, but a goal in mid will since the city itself can sence it and guide you in a way it finds fitting.
Type
Metropolis
Population
3 500 000
Location under
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