Tirras
| Tirras | |
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| Information | |
| Plane | Dominaria |
| Part of | The Northern Realms, Southwest Jamuraa |
| Demonym | Tirran |
Tirras is a city in southwestern Jamuraa on the plane of Dominaria.
Description
Tirras is a landlocked, sprawling city located at the foot of the Blue Mountains, near the source of the River Toloron. The city sprawls over the foothills of the mountains in numerous tiers, with staircase after staircase descending into a wide avenue where torches and lamps twinkle and bustling noise bubbles up. It hosts many bars and taverns, often crowded with people from the city itself and its suburbs. The main thoroughfares are busy, but there are many calmer backstreets.[1]
History
During the Flood Age, the Blue Mountains' glaciers that towered over the land were magically evaporated by the World Spell. Almost wiped out in flash floods, the hardscrabble hill tribes of Tirras who survived found all their topsoil washed into valley bottoms, which proved fabulously fertile. As food became plentiful, so did children, and Tirras's population exploded. Yet the landlocked city-state had little room to expand. To the north and west loomed the forbidding Blue Mountains. To the south and east stretched the sun-blistered desert of Sukurvia. Only a single thread connected Tirras to the south: the River Toloron and Bryce lay at the mouth of the Toloron.
During the reign of Johan, who ruled from the fortress of Krieghelm 400 years later, Tirras was still expanding rapidly. Johan's only chance to invade the south was by following the River Toloron to Bryce, but halfway down the river was a stumbling block: the village of Palmyra, full of pirates, criminals, misfits, and more.[2] During Johan's War, the city swelled with refugees, soldiers, traders, and scoundrels, but many lost their lives in the fighting. The forest to the north of the city was logged so extensively building airships that it was renamed Bald Point. After Johan's death, the Tirran elite started squabbling over who would take over the rule of the city and lost their grip on the other Northern Realms like Aerath and holdings in the Tirran Mountains, becoming a mere city-state once more.[1]
References
- ↑ a b Clayton Emery. (2002.) Hazezon, Wizards of the Coast. ISBN-13 0-7869-2792-5.
- ↑ Clayton Emery (2001) - Johan (novel), Wizards of the Coast