Troj

Troj has many nicknames though its most prominent ones are the City of
Progression and the Haven of Knowledge. Some trullocs simply call it
the Blasting Zone. Troj is well known for its progressive attitude and
constant push for innovation in its building and everyday living.

Troj inhabitants are known as Trojans, and the name lends itself to
describing progressive movements such as the Trojan Slemor Program,
an aggressive breeding program that has resulted in quickly maturing
slemors that are extremely agile and speedy.

Records remain unclear about when this land was first settled, but evidence
shows that the lekleks chose to settle at the Troj location around 800
BU. A previous city may have existed there at a pre-Sundering date, and the
lekleks simply moved into the remains of that ancient city and tinkered
with what they found there. All true evidence of a ruined city has long
been destroyed in the multiple blasts as well as new construction that
has occurred in the city site of Troj.

The population of the village grew and waned depending on the availability
of resources and the boredom of the lekleks that lived there. This
continued with very little of note until 293 BU when Snorel Cogears
screamed "Eureka!" in his tinker shop, which he had built underground right
into the bedrock. Snorel had computed the amount of time and resources
wasted in rebuilding the village and its structures after an explosion over
the course of one hundred years. He concluded that if the city was built of
stone, the impact costs would dramatically lessen. As he emerged from his
underground lab to share his computations with the rest of the village,
he found only the smoking ruins of a few huts, shops, gardens, and a
few survivors staggering around the burning husks.

Snorel Cogears initiated immediate plans to build an economical, precise, and
practical city, and his original plans would have made the city almost
twice the size it actually became. Though some of the more prominent tinkers
disagreed with his evaluations, Cogears' plans came to fruition simply
because there were not enough survivors to nay-say him, and his lack of
injuries in the last explosion proved his point well.

```
  "...and they came out of the jungle like multi-colored jewels
  spilling onto green velvet. Together, the salamaes and the
  lekleks erected the great city of Troj in a day."
                                    - Wikimalia, Author of *Salamae Tails*

```

When questioned why the secretive race suddenly came out into the open, the
salamae replied only that they were guided by the divine. While salamae and
leklek labored together to erect the great walls of Troj, leklek
practicality became tempered by the salamae spirituality, and the shamanic
salamae learned the basics of what would later be known as gyrodynamics and
tek. Troj, the newest of the three main cities on Primordiax and possibly
the most populated, now stands on the edge of a deep Katayvan jungle. Great
walls of black granite tower nearly twenty rands tall on the outer edges of
the city, and the walls repeat themselves throughout the rest of the city
along the roads and fencing in the main buildings, creating passageways
and a secure, though slightly claustrophobic, atmosphere.

## Modern Troj

The Trojans boast a fast paced, progressive lifestyle full of innovation
and creativity. The two marketplaces found within the city house some of
the strangest, and often most explosive, goods in the world, and traders
from every nation gather to find the newest, most interesting items. Due to
the popularity of its markets, Troj has grown quite prosperous - an
excellent condition for a city where explosive accidents happen on a daily
basis. Travel guides often recommend protective head gear when traveling
through Troj, and many citizens often bless the founders of the city for
their foresight in building with stone. Building repairs happen quite often to
the walls and structures of Troj. The Great Chain Reaction of 53 A.R.
annihilated the entire West Side Marketplace and shops in the Trade District.
The first explosion occurred at a rokkit exhibit where an unknown leklek
was showing off his latest invention. He set fire to fifteen rokkits at
once promising a dazzling display of light and colors that would rival a
team of elementalists expending all their powers at once. The first rokkit
dazzled the crowd as planned, but the other fourteen flew off in different
directions with disastrous results. Two exploded in an alchemist stall
which resulted in a mass explosion filling the air with noxious chemicals,
and the rest set fire to most of the merchant stalls within the area. The
casualties were enormous, and as a result gyrodynamics became heavily
regulated. Unsurprisingly, the city required a year's worth of rebuilding
after that incident.

Due to the heavy regulation of gyrodynamics after the Great Chain Reaction,
the study became quite popular with many of the scholars in Troj. Three
years after the GCR in 53 AR, a team of tinkers came together to build the
Universal Gyrodynamics Academy housed in Tinker's Haven, the tek based
section of Troj. Within the stone halls of the Academy, tinkers gather from all
over the world to contribute to the progression of science and tek, and
with the Unification, the knowledge is shared freely between Troj,
Askagard, and Chemer. The establishment of the Academy allowed for tinker
experiments to be housed in a fortified laboratory, preventing any further
major disasters. The laboratory wing of the Academy was rebuilt fifteen
times between 56 AR (the founding of the Academy) and 124 AR when the
Universal Laws of Gyrodynamics were published.

Currently, the city of Troj is under siege by the void. As a result, many of its
denizens fled to the city of Askagard to seek refuge. Sadly, many died that day,
and their sparks, extinguished.

## Government

A council of seven currently rule Troj, though several council spots may be
open at any given time. Members are elected by the local populace and tend
to be one of the Blessed or Unblessed, but elections happen when the busy,
fast-paced locals actually get around to it.