Nisos

Nisos, the City of Merchants was a large city-state on the coast of the Farwydd inlet. It was an ancestral hub of trade, one of the oldest cities on the continent, founded long before the year -2000 and lasting into the modern day. It was situated along the edges of the Farwydd Inlet, along the estuary of the Triao river.
== Language ==
In Nisos, as a cultural hub, many languages were spoken. In the ÉS period these included Old Rakki, Limba Vrei, Yupiisut, Tbikhlan, Brackian and more. In the modern day, these shifted to Luskan, Faerunian, Limba Vrei, Tbikhlan and more. The original language of the people that settled Nisos long ago was perhaps Tahua. 
Due to its high cultural diversity across time, pidgin languages came into being in Nisos during the ÉS period and formed creoles. These loose groupings of constructed creoles were known as the Farwydd Creoles. Their variety of component languages helped to make the naming of the area and its people highly varied.
== Nisos in the ÉS ==
During the -1800s and -1700s, Nisos was ruled by an assembly of merchants, the House of Im, that elected a single noble leader, the Iyim (so named after Im, god of travel and trade). In the late -1800s, the Iyim was Beska, a clever old woman who hailed from the Llandenwid family that made their fortune on the backs of spice. She passed away due to old age in -1802 and the House elected her son, Baskarr Llandenwid .
During this time, Nisos was a bustling hub of trade and culture, a true melting pot. There was quite a lot of crime and unrest, as any big city attracts, with a surprisingly large poverty gap. It was really ahead of its time.
Outside the city walls were the Kabuu fields. 
There was some corruption in the city too - especially the greedy dockmaster, Caledfwch, and the outcry caused when he would detain shipments for 'taxation purposes'. Many merchants, like Marialouska (a friend of Kjotverð's) made their livings in the city.
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