Avalir

Avalir, the City of Crowns, was a flying city-state during the Age of Arcanum. It was a mageocracy, ruled by a council of mages called the Septarion.

Description
Avalir was a flying city-state that was created out the top of Mount Ygora on the continent Domunas. It was circularly shaped, about three miles in diameter, and as tall as it was wide.

Points of interest

 * Archsept
 * Crystal Columns, set throughout the city.
 * Hall of Eyes
 * Hall of Prophecy
 * Hall of Symbols
 * Headquarters of Herald's Tome, located in Excelsior Plaza. It contains a room with a raised 10-foot diameter platform made of solid ruby and carved with glyphs and runs that allows Loquatius to broadcast to the Crystal Columns and Por'co Falls.
 * Laerryn's quarters, in Gallamore
 * Librarium Incantatum
 * Market of Wonders
 * Meridian Labyrinth, a subterranean network of passages and magical machinery kept lit by the spell engines keeping Avalir afloat and working
 * Palazza Por'co, ancestral home of the Por'co family located in Gallamore, owned by the city itself
 * Por'co Falls
 * Tower of the First Knight
 * Vault of the Golden Scythe

Districts

 * Cloudstone
 * Dawnsledge
 * Evenloft
 * Excelsior Plaza
 * Gallamore

Organizations and factions

 * Abjuration Guild
 * Academy Arcane
 * Court of Owls
 * Court of Working
 * Eyes of Avalir, organization of detectives working out of the Hall of Eyes
 * Golden Scythe, merchant guild led by Nydas Okiro
 * The Magisterium
 * Navigator's Guild
 * Octothurge
 * Porter's Guild
 * Ring of Brass, group of six friends who hold leadership positions throughout the city
 * Ring of Gold
 * Ring of Silver
 * Septarion, ruling council of the city

Demographics
A range of peoples live in the city, including humans, elves, eisfuura, changelings, and half-orcs.

Background
Avalir was formerly part of a city called Toramunda, founded during the Age of Arcanum on a mountain tended to by the druidic Gau Drashari on the continent Domunas. At some point, a group of seven mages enchanted brumestone to lift the top of the mountain, splitting Toramunda into the flying city Avalir and its earthbound sister city Cathmoíra. The spell was completed by Imyr Por'co, who became a hero the people of the city.

Avalir traveled around Exandria in a seven-year circuit on the world's leylines. It briefly stopped at other cities, both flying and terrestrial, including Aeor and Vasselheim. At the end of this circuit, to honor an agreement with the Gau Drashari, Avalir returned to Cathmoíra and performed a ceremony called the Replenishment. The city stayed with Cathmoíra for a month before embarking on another seven-year journey.

On the eve of a Replenishment, Cerrit Agrupnin began an investigation into the disappearance of Vespin Chloras, an archmage of Vasselheim who was believed trying to mimic the Raven Queen and perform a Ritual of Seeding. Authorities in Vasselheim, the last city visited before the return to Cathmoíra, reported him missing to the Sightwardens while the city was hovering over Vasselheim out of concern that he was stowing away in Avalir. The Sightwardens previously declared him killed by his failed ascension and closed the case. It was reopened in suspicion. Patia Por'co requested that his personal effects be saved for educational research instead of destroyed.

Patia held a party in the evening at her family's Palazza Por'co to celebrate the Replenishment.

Legacy
The city's failure at the outset of The Calamity caused its name to become the basis of the Elvish word "savalir" (guilt) by 585 PD. A notable usage of in the name of the Savalirwood (formerly the Veluthil Forest) in the Greying Wildlands.