Kurnow

The capital city of Vichin, situated on the Vislink River. Kurnow was already noted as a busy trading centre of Central Magnia in 985 and today it is the leading centre of Vichin academic, economic, cultural, and artistic life. 
Kurnow is surrounded by 3 kilometres of defensive walls complete with 46 towers and seven main entrances, erected over the course of two centuries.
== Economy ==
Kurnow stands on the intersection of several important trade routes and connects their salt mines in the Kotlov Mountains to the immense waterway trade on the Vislink and Wrynova rivers. Owing to a developed network of roads, the city draws considerable profit from trade, as well as millions of yearly pilgrims, being the center of Cister Cartian worship.
== Layout ==
Kurnow is a sprawl of wooden houses and muddy streets, protected by high walls and overlooked by the Great Cathedral in the middle of the White Marble Plaza, and the impressive Bloody Keep, high on its rocky hill, home to the King and his court. The city is divided into four quarters:
* Old Town, consisting of the Bloody Keep, the House of Magistrates, and the Pagan Neighbourhood, with its own walls that block the neighbourhood from the remaining city every night. 
* Kepar, situated in the northern part of town, west of the Valonian Road, and mostly consisting of residential neighbourhoods.
* White Town, situated in the western part of town, White Town was ravaged by a fire in 1376 and most of the quarter was rebuilt with stone, and a new university was erected, all payed for by the state exchequer. Studently, the quarter became the most expensive of the four and the neighbourhoods of workers and craftsmen were forced to move.
* Rakowiss, in the eastern part of town, both consisting of wealthy commercial centers like the Cloth Hall and the House of Hippolites, but also a large slum formed by prior inhabitants of White Town.
The quarters are of roughly equal size. each with their own churches, market square, council house, watch towers, a theatre, and graveyard. In the middle of the city is the White Marble Plaza, which belongs to none of the four quarters.