Kylorne's Rest

Kylorne's Rest is a small city in Aellonsyrdom nei Norstcayr, a region of Yrthamyr nei Anglunia, created by refugees fleeing the fog that took Kylorne. "The fog is coming the fog is coming the fog is coming the fog is coming the fog is coming the fog-"

-Said by Restians in their beds. It is said to lull them to sleep and protect them from nightmares. It does neither.

History
The orc witch Shaka Shortfang, leader of the now extinct Poldomorg Clan of Kylornian Orcs, managed to gather some of her friends and flee the oncoming fog. After many months of grueling travel the refugees landed on the Onthukhan region of Eldham. Politics then ensued over where the refugees would settle, eventually coming to an agreement with the Mad King of Anglunia, gaining a small strip of land with an abandoned keep and terraces. To the surprise of the refugees the small strip of land was directly over a piece of the Anglunian underground ice highway system, bringing trade and prosperity to the up and coming city.

The Menace Beneath
Far down bellow the earth, deeper than what the dwarves dare delve into, deeper than the roots of the mountains and far from the eyes of the gods, there lies the Darkways. Things with no names and too many voices call it home, but the Orcs have started to colonize it, and Verud Mora, a district of Kylorne's Rest, has its sewers set right above it, calling to its dark bowels. The citizens of Kylorne's Rest have the odd urge to dig ever deeper, violating the land herself, and Eldham seems to not like being exploited. "'The fog cometh and the fog taketh away'"That is inscribed on some stones in the underground of Kylorne's Rest. Legends spread through Anglunia saying that the Restians covet the underground to protect them from the Fog that haunts their nightmares. It is a bet they can not afford to lose.

City Innerworkings
Kylorne's Rest is a small city, with a small population, and thus it is controlled by a very small, very simple hirearchy: Curgragïr (Mayor) ➔ Virmái (Baron) ➔ Kairn (Citizen). The first two make up the Kurz, the rulling council of Kylorne's Rest.

The Curgragïr
Curgragïr literally means "Petty Queen/King" in gnomish and is the ultimate authority in Kylorne's Rest. It fills a role roughly equivalent to mayor, but more focused on cultural representation, leaving the administration mostly to the rest of the virmái. All curgragïr are also virmái. The current curgragïr is the founder of Kylorne's Rest Shaka Shortfang.

The Virmái
Virmái literally means "Splendid One" in gnomish and fills the role of administrators of Kylorne's Rest. At the most basic level virmái roughly translates to baron, and to be a virmái is to be a District Baron, the representative of a city district. Of course, all baron districts are Virmái, but the opposite is not true. The curgragïr can appoint new virmái at their will to fulfill administrative roles. The only three virmái are Shaka Shortfang, Shikamiro Kamaru and Margit the Icen.

The Kairn
Kairn literally means "person/individual/one without splendor", and is the most basic rank in Kylorne's Rest. Effectivelly the only bar to entry to be a kairn is to live in the city and own property, and sometimes not even that. To become a virmá one needs to be a kairn first, always.

Monarchical Aspirations
"'Mercury blooded, silver is within us, and the wielders of the white fire come forth.'"Kylorne's Rest would quickly give birth to house Silvanyr, created and headed by Virmái Margit the Icen. Silvanyr is a minor house of no renown who's loyalty belongs to House Lochatlan. The main body of lore can be found here.

Verud Mora
Verud Mora literally means "New Mistical Soil", from the gnomish "verud", meaning "new", and the old kikimoran "mora", meaning "mistical clay/soil". The district itself was created by Nihilla Eleanora, one of the refugees who arrived from Kylorne not that long ago. The whole district is built using Moran Architecture, a distinct style that wa birthed by the combination of Nihilla's old religious ideals and the vision of an old friend of hers called The Archive, a sentient library stored in a stone body.

Nihilla has gone into retirement and left the running of the district to her newborn son Margit Eleanora Silvanyr, but she stills builds the city with religious fervor, for the stones are sacred to her.

Moran Architecture
This architecture style is a cultural relique from the bygone world of Kylorne, and it has a few fundamental pillars:


 * Simplicity is the highest form of expression
 * Stones are an gift from the world itself, and thus should be used for construction, instead of wood and other materials. (An old Kikimoran religious ideal)
 * Reach high and, with the authority of the gods, touch the sky. (An old Kikimoran religious ideal)

The Silvanyr house hold this style to the highest regard, and consider it a form of honouring the kikimora ancestors of their founder Margit the Icen.

Zatkal Tar
Zatkal Tar literally means "City of the Victorious Far", from the old grugesh "zat" and "kal", meaning "far" and "victory" respectively, and "tar", meaning "hold\underground city\fortification". The district itself was created by Shaka Shortfanged, the founder of Kylorne's Rest. Almost the entire district is found underground, since the sun irritate the sensitive orc skin, and they aparently find it very fun to dig deeper and deeper for no reason (?).

The Soklûs
The Soklûs literally translates to "Big Us", and roughly translates to "society", is a gathering of folk and fairy tales, allegories and dialogues written in old grugesh that dictate the orc way of life. It also influences their architecture heavily.

Soklûs architecture generally means two things: unprocessed materials and respecting the earth. Buildings above ground are built using said unprocessed materials, such as logs and sticks, and are made to be open and wide and inviting, a bid to make orc cities blend into their enviroment so that wandering animals are confortable with making their way through the city. Below ground, however, things are reversed. Orc cities are a maze of claustrophobic dirt tunnels that connect to bigger tunnels and rooms and natural caverns. More important things, such as homes and religious places, get finer materials, such as stone or carved wood.

Refugees

 * Nihilla Eleanora - founder, builder and leader of the City State of Mora. She was dead for several months before being resurrected by Doctor Tancred of Seregost to participate in the final stand of Kylorne.
 * Shaka Shortfang - founder and leader of Poldomorg, she managed to trap the existential menace that was Borok under miles of earth, beneath the city of Borok Tar. Beneath the earth, in her realm of tunnels, she also trapped many stranger things, including one of the three eggs laid by Nihilla Eleanora, which she brought with her to Eldham.
 * Margit the Icen - a Dark Gnome of no renown, he aparently emerged from one of Nihilla's eggs. No one knows why a bird would hatch a gnome, but oh well.
 * Shikamiro Kamaru - former god-emperor of Onoban and apointer of shoguns.