Anteron

Anteron is a massive city on the eastern coast of Erristan. It is home to the seat of the Linodusian Faith of Ael.

Geography
Anteron sits at the top of a large gulf that exits into the Eastern Sea. The city itself sits on the eastern edge of The Sea of Stone. Anteron is ringed on all sides by mountains, but rests in a natural basin where the mountain range meets the water. Many of the buildings around the outskirts of the city are carved into the mountains themselves. Many dwellings within the mountains have been carved out by earth magi or by poor and homeless peasants throughout history; however, as the dwellings are little more than elaborate caves, they are fairly permanent, and have been home to all sorts throughout the several thousand year history of the city.

Most of the buildings in Anteron are constructed of white stone quarried from the region surrounding Caelam's Fist, a mountain stronghold in the north of the city where the Faith is quartered. These buildings descend in size and grandeur in a radius outward from the Fist, as the rich and powerful have historically tended to live in the more well-protected areas closer to the fortress.

A network of canals was built several hundred years after the city's construction following several seasons of heavy rainfall endangering the inhabitants of the city. Lucien the Architect ordered a series of manmade dikes and dams built high in the mountains surrounding the city that would redirect the watershed into the canals that would then empty out into the sea. The canals are gated with sluices and other forms of control that allow them to be drained for cleaning or access. The canals in the worse off sections of the city are rumored to be home to all sorts of gangs, beasts, and other nasty creatures. Rumor has it that there are whole sections of the city beneath the canals that have not been explored since the day they were finished.