Hloamar

The Imperial Mandated Settlement of Helemar is the regional captial and largest city of Nir Province in the Aurlûnor Velande. Once known as Sokalis, Helemar was apart of the former Takumakken Empire prior to it's collapse. It was founded as a trade outpost in hopes of finding trade partners in the Gulf of Heaven, though, it found itself being surrounded entirely by the Velande. The Crow People found themselves isolated, and the Empire was close to going to war with the Empire following hostile responses from it's Human inhabbitents, but a treaty was signed known as the Treaty of Smaugonik, which gave the residents of Sokalis access to move freely throughout the swamp, and the Mayor, (Link0Pasta), dual citizenship, and signing of an alliance.

In the final years of the Takumakken Empire, the town was handed over to Aurlûnor, but was not formally annexed fully into the Empire until it's collapse. This was met by hostility from the new Emperor of Takumakken, which demanded that Aurlûnor to relinquish the claims. War almost broke out yet again, but a compromise was signed. With that, the settlement was formally annexed and renamed to Helemar, which became Aurlûnor's important military outpost along the bay, keeping watch in the east.

Much of former Sokalis would be left to ruin, and it would be a shanty town by the time the Aurlûnorens obtained it. The Great Fire of Helemar would occur following a week after it's capture when barbarians came to raid and pillage it. It would destroy most of the buildings in the town. In recent years however, new settlers from Lhumar begun to populate the town, with one of the citiezns, Zax, tearing down the now charred cathedral that was present there as it was a "Heretic building", and Mao Meili, a Celestialkin that had lived in Helemar since it was under Takumakken rule, making efforts into rebuilding the town in the same style as the rest of the country, marking Celestialkin domination of the former Crow People outpost.