Termida

The city-state of Termida is one of the most important trading hubs on the entire continent and one of the only places where humans and valhir live alongside each other.

By now Termida is large enough to be a city-state in name only: It consists of the ruins of original Termida which was an ancient valhir city built into the mountain, the walled inner city built out of the Termidan ruins, the sprawling outer city mostly inhabited by humans, a bustling port sub-city some ten miles away by river, and a large rural area from the mountains all the way to the edge of the Northern plains.

Termida has close ties to the nearby valhir city-state of Layath Cair, being each other's most important trading partners. Termida is a lifeline to the upper world and its trade goods to the closed-off Layath Cair. In turn Layath Cair supplies Termida with metals, precious stones, and magical artifacts.

However, the two have profound political differences. Layath Cair is a bastion of conservative Valhir values while Termida is a melting pot of cultures and has relatively egalitarian laws when it comes to gender, race, and social status.

The climate in Termida is warm, with winter rains and summer heatwaves.