Rodmuthana

Rodmuthana (Saiännic: Rodmutzumoä), also known as the Royal City, is one of the two capitols of the Gate Kingdom and the seat of the Wérgóm. It is a sprawling trading hub, and one of the largest cities of the civilised world, with nearly 65.000 inhabitants. In 312 ABV, Rodmuthana was destroyed in the Great Fire of Rodmuthana, of which Athalulfir Khazibane is generally assumed to be guilty.
==History==
Rodmuthana was founded by Rodmuth the Great in the First Century ABV.
==Population and economy==
As of year 300 ABV, Rodmuthana was proudly the home of 45.000 inhabitants, including 2.000 nobles of various major and minor noble houses. The city is divided in different blocks dependent on economic production, with butchers, fishermen, basket weavers, smiths and workers living in segregated neighbourhoods. Outside of the city fortifications, shantytowns are spreading out. Most of the inhabitants are of Vidstossi ethnicity, but there is also a significant Syannic minority. The Syannics have by decree of the Wérgóm gained a monopoly on trans-national trade, since it has been deemed by the Vidstos clergy that trading is impure for the proud warrior race.
Once there lived a significant minority of Za'ahenes in the capitol, but they were massacred during the Mutilation of the Za'ahenes.
==Religious Centre==
While not having the same cosmological status as Risante, Rodmuthana is an important part of the religious and cosmological worldview of the Vidstos.
==Famous Buildings and landmarks==
The largest single building of the Capitol is the Royal Citadel, which is covered by white sun-dried mud, while built of massive blocks from the Gate Mountains. The citadel has four floors and twenty towers, and oversees the Rodmukina river to the south. Traditions holds that every king adds one tower to the structure. Many of the rooms are simply enlarged barracks for the troops. The citadel is overlooking the Royal Forest to the west, a walled enclosure where boars, bears, wolves, stags and elks are placed to be hunted by the Wérgóm.
The Gate Fortresses are the four gates to the city walls, which are basically four castles with four towers each, which easily could block invading armies.
To the east, there is a giant phallosi symbol, a symbol of the unification between the heaven and earth.
== Rodmuthana during the Anarchy ==
In 309 ABV, anti-foreign riots erupted in Rodmuthana, which at that point was occupied by Gezirid forces. The Gezirids were driven out during the chaos, and a city council dominated by burghers arose, generally loyal to the faction of Rodmuth IV. In 311 ABV, Haldad the pirate occupied Rodmuthana, making it his new headquarters. In year 312 ABV the Great Fire of Rodmuthana devastated the wooden buildings of the city, destroyed the old Temple.
Thus, the city did not offer much resistance when a joint Za'ahene-Syannic alliance occupied it and imposed peace terms between Veigholmoä and Rodmuthana, forcing Rodmuthana to pay indemnities for the massacred Syannics. It was widely expected that Rodmuthana would be razed and turned into a ruin.
Yet, that did not come to pass.
== Rodmuthana under Helgher Tharki ==
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