Macas

Nickname: Desert MotherDemonym: Macasi
Macas is an oasis city. There's a large area of concentrated oases in the heart of the Sanguin Desert and Macas has grown to encompass the nearly all of the treasured pools in this particularly dense area.
There are several pools of clear, beautiful water found throughout the city's current limits. The pools are revered for their life-bringing gift. The city of Macas is quite young in regards to the entire nation of the Rathanese halflings, only having been formally created in the beginning of the 3rd Century. The royal family, the Waldobo, were not the family that originally settled in the area, having overthrown the monopoly held by the Cotl family. The Waldobo began to establish a better system of control over the area and even began aiding travelers with supplies and serving as a valuable pit stop. The family has reigned ever since.
While the nation is a tribal nation, the city itself of Macas is civilized and modern, but holds to it's roots of the aboriginal peoples of the Sanguin. The city is very different than cities of it's size, due to being land-locked and part of an underdeveloped Kingdom, but the crops grown in the city are well allocated and the animals in the area put to good use. The Rathanese are very resourceful, as evidenced by their hundreds of years of life in the harsh red desert of Leira.