Xaburya

The bishopric of Xaburya is an underground city which is a county inside of the freehold of Carthya located within the golden hills of ryzan positioned between the cities of Slouttawa and Carthya on the continent of Syltör. The city is a part of the Aurlunoren-Ryzani Empire.

Today the bishopric of Xaburya is a growing industrial hub with a small village developing around the underground hold as the bishopric slowly moves away from its past isolationism and integrates with the rest of the country.

Founding
Whilst the origins and name of the original dwarven hold Xaburya was built on have been lost to time the modern city of Xaburya was founded when an expedition of Carthyan cultists led by Jay Burrow was formed with a plan to dig into and colonize an old abandoned dwarven ruin in order to escape the chaos that was the last days of the Second Republic of Ryzan.

The great dig
The Burrow’s expedition set out seeking the golden hills following an ancient map from a bygone era. Reaching their destination at the peak of a forgotten hill The acolyte’s made camp and began the excavating to reach a land where they could be safe from the horrors of the outside. Though a messenger would come to the excavators carrying the horrifying news nation was under invasion and enemies were drawing near. Hearing the news the acolytes sealed themselves underground where they would lose contact with the outside world for 37 years.

The War of bloody threads
Tensions were always between the spindlekin that dwelled in the abandoned ruins and the acolyte's conflict was truly inevitable from the start but one thing lead to another and just a simple raid led to a skirmish that began the years-long war that would become the war of bloody threads. The conflict would last four years ending with the spindlekin being pushed back beyond the southern bridge over the great chasm that to this very day separates the two groups with the spindlekin tribes still controlling the southern portion of the city of Xaburya.

Architecture
The city's architecture is made up of a combination of its original ancient dwarven architecture combined with elements brought in by modern Ryzani colonists that now inhabit the underground city. The older parts of the city consist of overgrown dwarven ruins with the new sections of the city incorporating much more color via imported terracotta contrasting with the mostly stone-brick architecture the original inhabitants of the city built with.

Inhabitants
The underground city of Xaburya is technically made up of 3 main population groups: Oathbound, Human, and the Spindlekin* (though they do live defacto independent from the rest of the city proper)

Government
During most of the bishopric of Xaburya’s existence, it has been run by Avimir’s Acolytes a militant order of Xaburyan Spiritualists currently led by the Eternal Bishop Jay Burrow. The city is organized into a military hierarchy in which virtually every citizen has been enlisted into the religious order.