Crysteria

Crysteria is the capital of Krentharin.
78,000 people, between ¼ and ½ of them refugees from the Thissalin Civil War across the Amethyst River.Services: The city is the neutral port at the mouth of the Amethyst River, making it the most popular route for Sinking Sea traffic to do business with the Amethyst River ports beyond the delta. As such, Crysteria sports a major marketplace where goods shipped down the river are traded to merchants who sell them across the seas, and vice versa.Imports: Krentharin is relatively poor in metals, and they import iron from Hilvatras and Flurien in Trynser, gold from Celebrund, and manufactured metal items from Igonia and Venteel. Clothing is also brought in from Forinse to be embroidered in Krentharin’s unique and popular style.Exports: As just mentioned, Krentharin embroidery is popular throughout the region for nobility and ecclesiastic use. Crysterian lace is popular in the courts of Arumelia, and so is popular (and copied) throughout the west. The city’s embroidery is also demonstrated in the excellent tapestries that are woven here. Finally, the city is a major wine maker and Crysterian sherry is the standard against which all others are measured.
The capital city of Krentharin is one of two ports on the mouth of the Amethyst Rver, the East Thissalin city of Caviot being the other one. Since Caviot has been besieged by West Thissalin forces for the last four years, most trade between the Amethyst River and the Sinking Sea has been through Crysteria, which has not hesitated to make a profit from the situation. This is not to say that the Crysterians are not sympathetic to the Caviotese. Food and military supplies are slipped through the lagoons and canals of the Amethyst River delta through West Thissalin patrols against the wishes of Krentharin’s king Athelard who wishes to maintain neutrality.Crysteria is marked by stout fortifications built by the city’s former Thissalin overlords when Caviot and Crysteria secured the mouth of the Amethyst River for the then powerful kingdom of Thissaly. The fortifications have suffered from several battles since that time, once being battered by the Trynsern and Igonian fleets during the Great Western War, stormed by Krentharin rebels in the aftermath of that war, eliciting a prompt siege by loyal Thissalin forces, and two subsequent batterings by Thissaly in following years. Each time the defenses have been rebuilt, though not to the standards of the original construction.
The city features a vast cathedral dedicated to “The One and Only Lord of All Nations Daeus”, surrounded by the chapels of a dozen major saints. There are no temples of other deities allowed in Crysteria.
Category:Crysteria
Category:Krentharin
Category:Cities of Ruencia