New Imaskar

Total Population: ~700,000

Also known as the city of progress, **New Imaskar** is always abuzz with the steady rhythm of scientific discovery, new forms of cultural expression and the hum of industrial progress. Home of Gruumsh, god of freedom, and Nebellun the Tinkerer, New Imaskarians are known for pushing their inventions and innovations in wondrous and, often times, explosive directions. With the engine of free inquiry behind them, the people of New Imaskar have dominated the new ideas and creations of this era. Whether it is in architecture, music, art, poetry, agriculture, industry and weaponry, New Imaskar has the latest and greatest of them all. New scientific discoveries are made every day at the Imperial Laboratory and new masterpieces of art are created at the Royal Conservatory. Making all this happen are the bright, young mind studying at the Academy of Arts and Sciences and all sorts of thinkers and inventors coming to display their creations at the World Expo. While many of the younger generation view New Imaskar as a beacon of progress, there is an equal number of people concerned that these creations are made without proper consideration for their ramifications in the future and draw dire parallels between New Imaskar's progress and swelling pride to the eventual fate of the Tartarus Ruins.

### The Imperial Laboratory

While the Arcane Sanctum may be known as the foremost magical research Institute in the continent, The Imperial Laboratory is the nucleus of all other scientific inquiry. Here the brightest minds of the continent probe into the deeper laws that govern the natural world and strive to apply this knowledge to enrich the lives of those without magic. Well the Magicless look up to the laboratory's efforts, some view this practice as heretical and accuse the scientists of turning their backs up on the deities and the magical powers they provide protection with.

### The World Expo

Situated in the center of the city is a large fairgrounds with tents and exhibition halls set up year-round where rotating displays of the continent's finest talents display their latest inventions, artworks, plays and compositions. From the expo's immense popularity, many exhibitors find themselves vaulted to stardom or economic success which has made display permits akin to golden tickets and the waiting list for a permit extends over years at this point.

### The Eternal Academy of Arts and Sciences

The first Public liberal arts college of the continent, The Eternal Academy was the fruit of the late mayor's dream to make higher education accessible to all. Built on the belief that the continents reliance on a handful of powerful awakened individuals and Divine avatars has led it to its current state of affairs, the Academy seeks to empower all who are willing to study instead hoping to be born lucky enough to have magic talent or the reincarnated soul of a powerful hero. While it was initially ridiculed and staffed with what higher society viewed as washed up adventurers, The Academy has since earned a hard won reputation of producing graduates with the utmost academic rigor and the professors are now second to none in their fields. Like much of New Imaskar, these advances are met with have been met with mixed responses as the lessons taught within its halls position themselves to overturn long-held social orders.

### The Royal Conservatory

While many might associate New Imaskar with the sound of explosions from experiments gone awry or the sights of strange and fantastic new machines, New Imaskar is also a hotbed of musical and artistic innovation. At the center of of this innovation is Royal Conservatory. While it's name may invoke thoughts of stuffy traditionalism, The Royal Conservatory supports classical and Avant Garde studies equally. It is actually the oldest educational institution in the city and both the Imperial laboratory and the Eternal Academy where founded by Conservatory graduates. The study of art is the study of the mortal condition and in these eras of chaos, they art produced here gives form to the feelings, anxieties and hopes of the people who live in these time.

### The Eye

The Eye is swirling confluence of airborne leylines and New Imaskar's local nexus. When New Imaskar was humble country fief, the eye was situated in the center of the town and a place of worship. However, as the city underwent its renovations and revolutions, the eye has since been enclosed within in the imperial laboratory where it scientist study it’s wild undulations and rotations. Officially it is held within the laboratory to help contain the chaotic energy emitted from these exposed Leylines. However, there are rumors that the scientists at the laboratory are seeking ways to harnesses the energy to power the city or terrible weapons that seek to utilize the raw energies of the Leylines themselves. Critics of the city are very quick to point out that it was this exact concept of attempting to wrest control of the Leylines that led to the downfall of the Nameless One and the Tartarus ruins.

**The Iron Legion**

In keeping with the cities goal of empowering the common people, New Imaskar's army is almost entirely a voluntary force of organized citizen militias. From these militias, the most talented soldiers and officers are selected for a special unit: The Iron Legion. Outfitted with state of the art armor inlaid with powerful enchantments and external power sources that grant the users increased strength and agility, the Iron Legion and their powered armor carry weapons and shields far heavier than any average soldier could use. It is also rumored that they have developed new weapons that can propel projectiles at incredible speeds that are capable of tearing through all but the strongest and thickest armor, a technology that will surely revolutionize combat if this technology becomes more readily available.