Alusille

Alusille is a city in the north of the world, currently one of the principal cities of the Karapeshai Exatai. Founded by the Evyni Empire as a new eastern capital, it sat on the River Rhon, a tributary of the River Einan. Thoroughly planned from the start, it would be built in a neatly ordered grid pattern, with several giant Ytauzi temples and a number of palaces for the Lawgiver, as well as awesome fortifications to protect from attacks by the Ming to the west. As the Empire expanded westward, it would grow larger and larger, acting as the principal trade conduit between the Evyni heartland around the River Iom, and their new western conquests.
One of the final cities to fall in the War of the Three Gods, it was conquered by a Karapeshai army led by Elikas-ta-Tisatar, Satar Prince of the Shield, who took the local defenders by surprise by unexpectedly crossing the Rhoms with his army. Following the war, it was integrated into the Exatai as a linchpin of their own trade network.
The city as well as the whole Rhon Valley became the dominion of the Princes of the Shield, and was ruled by Elikas for almost forty years before passing to his son Itarephas and grandson Talephas, who would become the Fifth Redeemer of the Karapeshai Exatai. Despite the Satar conquest, the Princes became quite popular among the Avaimi population for their policy of local intermarriage and patronage, tolerance for Ytauzi, and a vicious campaign of subjugation against the hated neighboring Ming. 
Its defining architectural feature, built during Elikas' reign, is a network of aqueducts and canals channeled from the Iom through the city, providing both clean water and sewer drainage, the two being occasionally confused. 
Category:Cities
Category:Evyni