Pirika's Wall

The wall known as Pirika's Wall was once a wonder of the world, a towering wall fifty feet high, carved from foundation to parapet with an endless series of defensive wards empowered by each of the Great Houses at the city's founding. The rumors have changed and molded over the decades, but the story holds that it was only by contributing to the defenses of Pirika's Wall could one of the Houses of Craft even become a Great House. Whatever the truth of those legends, the Houses have changed and shifted as the tides of the war have ebbed and flowed, and great sections of Pirika's Wall have fallen into disrepair. In some the wards have merely failed, the magics which infused them cut off from whatever **Meluc** had empowered them. In other places the wall is simply gone, reduced to ruin and rubble by some incursion of the Arcaneocracy.

## Aspects

### Lasting

* Once mighty Craft, now faded
* The stark divide of Melucrum

### Fleeting

* Wisdom for the blind (Crowns)
* Treacherous rubble (Crowns)

## Neighborhoods

Pirika's Wall contains the Districts of the Old City, the Market Quarter, the Hill and Greyrock, which contain their own neighborhoods. Those neighborhoods outside of those three Districts are usually called by their own local names, rather than Pirika's Wall, yet they fall in no other colloquially named District.

### **Zwinling**

Sandwiched between the Swester's Way and Agilulf road, the neighborhood of Zwinling rests comfortably within Pirika's Wall, overlooking the Merilang and the Northern Harbour Ward. It is the biggest and most populous neighborhood within the wall. Largely a residential district, the densely packed neighborhood of Zwinling hold many of the Hidden Lesser Houses of Yosthaven.

### **Crowns**

* *Controlled by: House Kühn*

Just North of Zwinling, pinched narrowly between Agilulf Road and the Einkorn Road, lies the neighborhood known as Crowns. It is here that the various Bankers, Melecrum printers, loan sharks, and Craft Firms ply their trade. Yosthaven is well known for oppressively narrow streets, made all the more claustrophobic by the high walls of the surrounding buildings and apartments. Crowns embraces this aesthetic, with many storied apartments cutting off all natural light to the crowded streets below.

**Points of Interest**

* *The Golden Fiurstat*

### **Herza**

Herza is one of the neighborhoods that doesn't press up against the Old City, cut off from the mesa of black stone by the Einkorn and a narrow swath of Crowns. It's Eastern border is the Reihengrab, and the endless procession of lanterns that leads to the Grave Row Gate. Herza is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Yosthaven, with fewer spires and more domes of tarnished bronze than anywhere else within the grey city. It is largely residential, host to many talented Craftsfolk who have not been Bound to a House, or at least have only been taken on as Dependents.

### **Dawning**

Dawning rests just two blocks away from the Old City, but the Reihengrab and Sunna Way cut it off just before it can reach the base. One of the larger neighborhoods, Dawning is split between residential neighborhoods, overgrown and often abandoned parks, and centers of industry. It is a place of workshops and laboratories, alchemists and minor works of Craft.