Hloamar

The Imperial Mandated Settlement of Helemar is the regional capital and largest city of Nir Province in the Aurlûnor Velande. Once known as Sokalis, Helemar was a part of the former Takumakken Empire prior to it's collapse. It was founded by the Crow people as a trade outpost in hopes of finding trade partners in the Gulf of Heaven (though the area had been previously occupied by Celestial elves and the Yi'yen culture), but the territory was steadily being surrounded entirely by the Velande. The Crow found themselves isolated, and the Empire was close to going to war with the Empire following hostile responses from its human inhabitants, 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.

The Takkumakken years would see the construction of a few houses, a Nether portal, wheat field (though agriculture was not very conducive to the brackish coastal swamp) and livestock pens, as well as a bizarre series of tunnels used for mining and quarrying. Much of the quarried rock was used to build the old Sokalis Cathedral.

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 Aurlûnoren 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 citizens, Zax, tearing down the then-charred cathedral that was present there as it was a "Heretic building", and Mao Meili, a Celestialkin who had lived in Helemar since it was under Takumakken rule, making efforts into rebuilding the town in the same architectural style as the rest of the country, marking Celestialkin domination of the former Crow People outpost.

The Great Fire was used as an opportunity by Helemar's surviving residents to rebuild the city. The old Crow buildings are nearly completely demolished or modified beyond recognition, and the new Celestialkin immigrants have taken to fishing the swamps around the city and the coral reef off its coast, bolstering the local identity as a partially-seafaring people of the marshes. After demonstrating her talent and dedication in the rebuilding, the Velereth (Coffeecubus) appointed Ms. Mao as imperial governor of Nir province, granting the town functional autonomy from Lhûmar (the territory was under its de facto control with the lands plugin).

Plans for the city (as of April 13, 2021) include the construction of a new Twin Dragon temple atop the foundation of the old cathedral, and use of eastern half of the city as a shipyard for the Aurlûnor Imperial Navy.