Quillreach
Location: East of the Sanctum Steps, directly north of the Tide Crown.
Tone: Austere, intellectual, and coldly elegant. Lamplight flickers in scroll-vault windows; students move in disciplined flocks. Magic here feels dense, formalized, sanctioned, not wild.
Description: Quillreach is home to Frae’s greatest libraries, arcane academies, and noble residences devoted to scholarly or magical pursuits. The scent of vellum and ozone drifts through the alleys, and cloaked figures speak softly in half-forgotten dialects. This district balances nobility and knowledge, politics and parchment.
Inhabitants:
- Highborn mages, spellwrights, and sanctioned arcanists
- Noble families aligned with Miell, Rii-Ella, and Marawae
- Magical auditors, Veilweavers, and memory scribes
- Foreign scholars and elven emissaries, often under watch
Notable NPCs:
- Lady Caeryn Vellistra: Blind mage-noble, head of House Vellistra, defender of the Weave.
- Magister Thaen Elyvar – A high elf judge who oversees magical inheritance and arcane legal doctrine
- Mistress Aven Virellis – Headmistress of the Lyricum Collegia; rumored to be researching name-erasure rituals
Points of interest
- The Scriptorium of the Veiled Quill: A tower-library where knowledge is stored in spell-laced vellum.
- The Sanctum Eternal: Miell’s glowing temple, floating above a void well of magical force.
- The First Flame Mirror: A magical relic that shows a caster their “final spell.”
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