Liberta

Information of Liberta
Liberta is one of the seven main cities of Norvos. It is the western most city in Norvos, and its neighbours include Yamindor to the north, Ferdandes to the south, and Magna to the east.

Liberta is situated in the Desert of Tears. This land is given this name due to the fact that many cities before Liberta called this region their home some time in the past. All other cities have slowly fallen into ruins, leaving Liberta as the longest lasting city in the Desert of Tears. Surrounding Liberta is the Noirta River, giving Liberta a river-like coast. This river expands from Yamindor to Liberta, connecting the two cities. The Noirta River is also connected to the sea, allowing for easy access to the ocean.

Pre-Liberta History
Liberta was founded in the shadow of two strange ruins. The first of these ruins was a large orange gate. The other was a black shrine-like structure located in the middle of a lake with a crescent moon. It was later realized that the gate lines itself up with the rising of the sun. This structure was then dubbed the Sun Gate. Similarly, it was discovered that the altar perfectly lines up with the moon when it reached its highest point in the night sky. With all the moon connotations found at this shrine and its lake, it was called the Moon Shrine and the Lake of the Moon. There remains speculation that the shrine also serves another purpose. The builders of these monuments are unknown but it is clear that they held the sun and the moon in high regard. Perhaps there is something to that. In a world of ever changing alliances, boarders, and nations, nothing remains as consent as the rising and setting of these celestial objects. Investigations are still on going and are being lead by ArtemisTheGreat.

History
Liberta started its grand story with a cobblestone house that was built on the shore of the Lake of the Moons. Uptown, Liberta's great founder contacted and asked ArtemisTheGreat to build Liberta into a grand and proper city. Artemis accepted and moved from Not_Venice to Liberta. He built all of what is now Liberta Proper single-handedly. After some time, Uptown passed on the torch of leadership to Artemis, making him the second lord of Liberta. He reined until Febuary of 2023. An election was held among the members of Liberta and Jastlakiat Norekva was elected to be the third lord of Liberta.

On April 17th, 2023, ownership of the city transferred from the Kingdom of Norvos to the vassal nation, the Kingdom of Koura. This was a direct result of the Norvosi War. Norvos had suffered a crippling defeat by the hands of Leveros. Norvos did not have the financial capability to continue the war and gave up ownership of Port Leon and Norvos to Leveros. In a successful attempt to preserve the western cities from the same fate as the eastern cities, Tios Norekva negotiated with Salen de Consau II. The deal was that the western cities of Norvos would join the Leveros nation as a vassal country for the return of Liberta, Fernandes, Magna, and Yamindor being spared from destruction. Salen agreed to these terms and spared the western cities. Thanks to his leadership skills, the people of the newly formed Kingdom of Koura all elected for Tios to be the first king of Koura.

Geopolitics of Liberta
Liberta is friends with the cities surrounding it, Liberta is great friends with its closest city, Fernandes. The two cities are extremely close, even having a bridge that was built together by both their founders of Fernandes and Liberta. There are plans to create roads to Magna and Yamindor, or even also connecting the Noirta River with the river surrounding a part of Fernandes, to make boat travel easier.

Religion
Liberta isn't the most religious place, but it does have respects to religions. Examples of this is the Liberta Church that is being built. After it was said Norvos wont really set a proper religion for the state, cities and more stopped really following any religion in particular.

Liberta Proper
Liberta Proper is where the main and oldest portion of the city is located. It contains the current walls, shops, church, Lake of the Moon, and Hall of Lords.

The architecture is primarily made out of spruce and sandstone. The bland colors of pale yellow and brown are broken up every once and a while by accenting colors. The homes in North Liberta that lie closer to Liberta Proper also share this same style.

In Liberta Proper, one can find a fight club, a bar, a bee farm, the city mines, a court room, a communal storage room, and horse pens. This district is also called home by the older residents of the city including but not limited to, Uptown, Kwazy Norekva, Thyboss7, Hangman, Obama1st, DragonFoxPlanet, PaulWW1, Jastlakiat Norekva, and ArtemisTheGreat.

North Liberta
Due to a small population boom, the city has expanded and created a second district called North Liberta. However, it was not made with the intention of making a new district. After a meeting was held in the court room, it was agreed that Liberta should be split into two districts and the northern portion of Liberta was officially called North Liberta.

This new part of Liberta has a different infrastructure style than Proper Liberta. Instead of following the spruce/sandstone style of Liberta Proper, North Liberta has an acacia/stone brick/deep-slate style. This better reflects the acacia biome that it is located on.

North Liberta holds the city's wood farm, wheat farms, an estate, and the temples to the sun and moon gods. It is also home to more of the newer members residing. This includes but is not limited to Razail White, DanTheMan8111, and GuildLord.

Current problems
Liberta is one of the oldest city in all of Norvos, but it is still in the process of being restored to its former glory. Despite having a long history of existence, it does not have a large population, therefore not a lot of infrastructure. This problem is slowly being solved, but it's still a recurring thing, where one person needs to take 2 jobs or more.