Mercuria

Mercuria presents as a broad, high plateau belt broken by long valleys and passes, with muster-citadels crowning the shelves, mausoleum gardens terracing the slopes, and honor-roads threading river courses between armories, hospitals, and parade grounds.   Thin air plays strange music: in Echo Passes, chants fade to whispers; in Honor Groves, prayers carry across whole valleys. Breath Wells, warm vents rimmed with gold-lichen, aid newcomers; night winds sometimes recite Fallen Names, ending where new mercy begins.   Muster-cities number 10,000–60,000 (barracks cloisters, granaries, drill courts, hospitals). Mausoleum towns hold 3,000–15,000 with remembrance fountains and archivists. Ward-citadels sit on shelves 1–5 km across. Aurilon dominates its ward; The Platinum Palace of Bahamut co-exist in Mercuria, translating among the first five layers as justice and relief demand.  

Notable Locations

Aurilon, the Golden Spire

Domiel’s tower of command and clemency.  

Memorial Wards

Mausoleums beneath laurel and goldstone where stories are kept and grudges laid down.  

Parade of the Measured

A mile-broad field where drills end with relief rotations to hospitals and kitchens.  

Clearness Bridge

A high pass whose stones ring truth; false witness cannot cross without the bridge itself groaning.  

Governance

Domiel, the Mercy-Bringer rules from Aurilon, the Golden Spire, coordinating musters, parley, and remembrance. Trumpet archons carry summons and pardons; hound archons keep road-watches; throne archons adjudicate ward disputes under the charter of measured force.   Mercuria is organized along seven Gold Roads, each divided into seven muster-wards (forty-nine total). Every ward keeps a muster field, an oath-hall with truce-circle, an armory cloister, a hospital court, and a mausoleum garden tended by trumpet and hound archons. Aurilon, the Golden Spire (Domiel’s seat) coordinates the roads and orchestrates the Day of Memory rites.   Domiel, the Mercy-Bringer rules from Aurilon, the Golden Spire, coordinating musters, parley, and remembrance. Trumpet archons carry summons and pardons; hound archons keep road-watches; throne archons adjudicate ward disputes under the charter of measured force.  

Travel and Access

Marches are steered by oriflammes and standard-winds rather than stars: the Merciful Banner marks east, the Scales south, the Laurel west, the Watch north. Wandering patrols close a circuit back to a muster field in 10–20 days; swear a true errand, escort, parley, repatriation, protection of noncombatants, and new passes open where cliffs seemed sheer.   Interplanar sky-gates unfurl as vertical banners of light onto high fields and passes; processional roads make room without crowding. Oath-stones mark truce circles where parley cannot be treacherously struck. Wherever the Platinum Palace stands, its four Wind-Gates (North/Yonel, South/Kerkhoutha, West/Moriel, East/Ruhiel).  

Access from Lunia

Typically, if not teleported by a deity and sanctioned by Domiel, the access is via 'the climb'.  

Exit to Venya

The crown-gates to Venya lie beyond the Crown Passes, where honor-roads climb toward orchards and villages. Mortal pacing is 3–6 days by causeways and switchbacks; service-shortening applies, measured restraint, keeping a hard oath, honoring the fallen, or sparing the defeated makes the crown seem nearer and the grades kinder.  

Inhabitants

Archons (hound, trumpet, throne), Angels (devas, planetars), hospitaler orders, Paladin companies, scholars of just war, and petitioners learning restraint and guardianship. Visitors include Adamntine Dragonborn embassies emerging Platinum Palace anchors, and dignitaries bound for The Vigilant Crown and Metallic Dragons.

Truce-geas

Entering a consecrated truce circle puts all parties under a gentle bond against treachery until terms are met or dawn breaks.  

Oath-heat

Freshly sworn oaths warm the stone of an oath-hall; broken oaths leave a chill recorded in the ward rolls until amended.