Dyabakar

The wealthiest of the Free Cities, and the second largest city after Karduun, the city occupies a lush coastal plain, surrounded to the east by limestone mountains, and the seaside itself is protected by tall, rocky shores. The island of Avaard is located a few kilometers off the shore from Dyabakar and has historically provided the city with a defensible position for naval warfare. It is ruled by a Warlord, the oldest descendant of the Rarhlys family. The current Warlord is Kameria Rarhlys. 
The city is made of slim buildings of grey stone with peaked roofs, reaching up to five stories tall. There are no longer any trees around the city, and firewood is becoming ever scarcer as the city has to import it from surrounding towns or buy it from mercantile traders.
==Culture==
The Dyabakari are known as a kind people. It is fashionable to dress in greys, blacks, and desaturated blues. Men often let their hair grow forever and bind it in heavy golden rings to keep it off the ground, while women tend to paint their bodies like canvasses, showing off lavish paintings of scenery or art. Even the more modest women will for example paint stars on their cheeks to form the night sky.
==Economy==
Dyabakar is the only Free City to have outlawed slavery and have forbidden slavers to dock in their harbour. In their early days, they prospered greatly from piracy and raids all over the world, but now, they are at the forefront of the silk trade, producing dyes never seen before in other parts of the continents, especially a rich, dark purple colour, found nowhere else. 
For without holding the largest naval power in the region, they are also renowned for their shipbuilding and for centuries, Dyabakari merchant ships have sailed to distant shores and brought their trade and wealth back home.
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