Manalpa

Manalpa is the capital and largest city of Duscador, and with a population of roughly a million people including environs, is the largest city in Truyea south of the Neck. It has been the capital of Duscador since its founding more than a hundred years ago and since then has flourished into the city it is today. It is home to the Maple House Palace, the official meeting house of Duscador's Council and home to the reigning Presidian of Duscador, Aigo Tayne. Outside of Duscador, Manalpa is known for its maple tree sap, which is used mainly to make glue and candles, and for being the birthplace of morn, a popular sweet beverage made with syrupy wine and fermented fruit from the basar tree.
=== History ===
The founding of Manalpa is mostly unknown, owing to its insignificance as a settlement and the constant warring in the region more than two thousand years ago. It became known as Manalpa sometime in the eighth or ninth centuries before the Great Separation, some 1400 years ago, during which time it played a role in a number of small-scale conflicts between neighbouring settlements and towns west of the Empire of Inath. The first concrete date is 481 A.S, when it became one of the last cities on the continent to be conquered by the Sun Empire. Under the rule of the Sun Empire, which lasted almost five centuries, Manalpa grew from a tiny settlement into a city of great significance, owing to its location within the vast forests that cover the southwestern reaches of the continent. The rare purple basar tree is native to the forests around Manalpa, and it has become famous across the continent for its trademark syrup wine, morn, which is made with the sweet fruit from the basar tree.
Manalpa survived the Great Separation unharmed, owing to its location and its position of neutrality. It fell under the rule of the Roni in a non-violent takeover of the city and the surrounding regions in the middle of the fourth century A.S, and over the next 200 years flourished into a city of importance. When the Roni collapsed following the Tamar Wars, Manalpa pledged allegiance to Duscador. Known as the heartland of the Duscadorian people, it was named the capital city, and has grown enormously in size over the past 100 years.
=== Population ===
Manalpa has a population of approximately 1 million people both in and around the city, making it both the largest city in Duscador and the largest south of the Neck. Along with Tyno in the east, it is considered one of the two cultural capitals of Duscador. Despite its size, and unlike other cities in Duscador, ethnically Manalpa is overwhelmingly Duscadorian, with few other ethnic populations. Somewhat unusually for a city of such size, Manalpa has no walls, nor proper city limits; it covers a vast area of more than 400 square miles both in and around the Manalpan forests.
=== Military ===
Manalpa has no official military presence, though it has a Civil Watch who police the city, and many of Duscador's domestic military operations begin in and around the city.
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