Lisvarna

**Lisvarna** is the capital of the Rovain kingdom and the seat of the Rovain king or queen and royal council.

Also known as the **City of Streams**, Lisvarna is the greatest city in the known world. Forged together by dwarven and human craftsmanship and magic, it is a stronghold in the middle of the Rovain plains. She stands tall, spanning five different levels in her grandeur. The river Undoter crashes into the city and is split into streams that flow through every level, some elevated by magic, for the residents to always have access to fresh water. The same river gushes out in the front in a cascading waterfall.

## **The Layout**

Lisvarna is split into five levels, stacked on top of each other and connected by huge stairways and magical platforms similar to Tenser’s discs, used by the less capable. Higher levels get progressively smaller in area.

### **First Level**

This is where most commoners are found. Packed to the brim with apartment-style buildings, this level houses the working class, as well as the less fortunate. Most of the Darian population has resorted to the cheaper or abandoned areas here, and the inns and taverns range from halfway decent to fully run down. Chapels to various deities can be found, but they are rarely well tended to.

The better areas of the first level run parallel to Undoter’s stream, and this is where most merchants congregate in street markets to barter their merchandise away.

### **Second Level**

Here lives the middle class. Fine inns and respectable hostels make for enjoyable accommodation, and the various marketplaces boast exotic food, well-crafted supplies and equipment, and rare trinkets with arcane qualities. More than a few deities have full churches here.

The people that live here are the craftsmen and merchants that provide more services than their first-level counterparts can afford, the hunters that find the more elusive prey, mercenaries and wizards-for-hire, and all manner of folk not worried about next day’s meal. Obviously, the city guard pays much closer attention to the second level than the one below it, and patrols are regular, if a bit sparse.

In the second level, citizens interested in the arcane can find Talgor's artificer study, and The Salamander, a modest but respectable inn, welcomes travelers.

### **Third Level**

This is where the bureaucracy begins. The east part of the third level houses the universities, both arcane and mundane, some churches, and the scribes and offices that power a whole city’s worth of legal proceedings.

The west third level is mostly residential, with minor nobles’ manors and beautiful walkways and plazas.

On this level, one can find Matilda Rorsa's illustrious manor as well as Pelor's Church of the Sun.

### **Fourth Level**

The fourth level rises in two discrete towers, east and west. They are connected by the Cloudway, an enormous bridge that spans a large part of the city and is considered one of its greatest attractions.

The fourth level’s residents occupy the eastern tower. Here live the major nobles, as well as the king’s more distant relatives. The royal council’s Great Hall is found in this area. The council itself mostly convenes in the fifth level, and the Hall is reserved for the more public declarations. Another important building is the High Court, where most legal discrepancies are judged. City guard patrols are abundant here, and almost all houses hire their own personal mercenary guards.

The western tower is devoted to the Grand Church and the church grounds.

Ulfar Dorn's manor is found on the eastern tower of the fourth level.

### **Fifth Level**

Rising up from the fourth level’s eastern tower, the fifth level is the smallest of them all. It houses the Rovain king and his kin, as well as the royal council and their families, along with enough servants to accommodate them comfortably. The fifth level is closed to visitors without explicit permits or invitations.