Magnimar

The City of Monuments




The city of Magnimar stands as one of the two major city-states of southern Varisia. Founded by Korvosan dissenters in 4608 AR, the City of Monuments now stands as a rival to Korvosa in an open war of coin and words.

Geography
Magnimar is a large city located on the southwester coast of Varisia where the Yondabakari River empties into the Varisian Gulf. The city is surrounded by the mostly inhospitable Mushfens. The city itself is defined by two colossal landmarks which predate modern civilization by thousands of years or more. The Irespan is an ancient Thassilonian ruin, the easternmost end of a giant bridge which ahs now crumbled into the sea. This enormous relic stretched from Magnimar's other most noticeable feature, the three-hundred-foot tall cliff which cuts the city in two known as the Seacleft.

City Districts



 * The Shore - Home to the majority of Magnimar's working class, this district contains five sub-districts: Beacon's Point, Dockway, Keystone, Lowcleft and Ordellia.


 * The Shadow - Containing only a single subdistrict known as Underbridge, The Shadow is Magnimar's most dangerous and disreputable district. Named for it's location beneath the Irespan, this is prime real estate for gambling dens, cheap brothels and flop houses.

Holdings
These smaller communities and settlements lie under the Magnimarian sphere of influence.
 * Galduria
 * Nybor
 * Ravenmoor
 * Sandpoint
 * Turtleback Ferry
 * Wartle
 * Wolf's Ear

Governent
The city of Magnimar has two official political forces. The Council of Ushers is a 117 member legislature filled with nobles, merchants, scheming schemers and a handful of altruists. The second tier of Magnimarian politics is the Office of the Lord-Mayor, currently held by Lord-Mayor haldmeer Grobaras. Legal arbrition is handled by the Justice Court, a body of thirteen Justices that together comprise the highest court in the city-state.