Varvardnársh

Varvardnársh is the capital city of the Vht'shjenjé and perhaps the largest city in the Iron Desert.
==History==
According to legend, Varvardnársh was originally a giant insect colony and inhospitable to human life. The queen of the mega-colony was eradicated by the selfless sacrifice of The Maimed Saint, Issvenkásht, who torched the colony by setting himself on fire. When the insect colony died, the few survivors of the Eshárenja moved into the depths and they built their sanctuary there, hidden from the hostile tribes who wanted them all dead. They would not emerge again for generations, and by then they had developed into a completely new culture - The Shadowborn.
Due to its central location in the northern Mír region, it quickly became a trading hub for tribes from near and far, and eventually the local cultures that intermingled here influenced each other and with the distinct Shadowborn culture to create a more unified culture that eventually grew into the Vht'shjenjé state under the leadership of Shjevtyrín.
The city faced its one and only attacker in the massive Battle of Varvardnársh that marked the beginning of the end of the Thousand-Year War.
==The City==
Varvardnársh is a subterranean city built around the Mír river before it surfaces to flow out into the great canyon that is the Vale of Mír. It is difficult to access and can only be reached by a dangerous climb through slippery tunnels populated by hundreds of thousands of bats.
The city itself is a common destination for caravans and envoys from all over the Iron Desert, but as of yet no non-Scorched has even been allowed near the sacred city. It is said, however, that the underground city somehow has clouds and rainfall, and even a night sky with stars glittering high above. The streets are said to be massively wide, lined with canals over blue water that radiates an inner light, and that glowing crystals line the street, bathing the  city in perpetual bluish glow. 
==The Underworld==
Even an subterranean city like Varvardnársh has its underworld, and it is said that in the deepest caves below the city the law of Shjevtyrín's state does not apply. Entire societies of misfits, lunatics, exiled criminals and disturbing death-cults are said to live down there in complete isolation. Most of them having spent their entire lives down the depths, they've never seen daylight. Indeed, some even maintain that the notion of a blue sky with a burning great sphere is ridiculous and that the caves never end no matter how far you ascend.
Category:Cities
Category:Capital cities
Category:Vht'shjenjé