Post by DC on Sept 4, 2014 20:02:54 GMT -5
Vaarys, "City of MagiTech"
Region of Kalg'rai: Shystae, the plains
Vaarys is the capital of the region known as Shystae, the plains that envelop about a sixth of Kalg'rai's surface. Vaarys is the capital city of Shystae, known solely for its second-highest MagiTech capabilities, second only to Sh'rutal. When it comes to MagiTech manufacturing, research and upgrading, Vaarys takes the crown. Despite this, the best of the best gets sent to Sh'rutal, yet this helps keep the city of Vaarys sustained. The city itself contains maybe a few thousand people, so things are a little more personal within the city. However, unlike Sh'rutal, this is where the diversity of acceptance of MagiTech and tapping into mana first originated.
Vaarys is home to the first few humans to not accept magic, however, many of those people moved out of Vaarys as they became a MagiTech dominant city. The city covers just about the entirety of the plains, however in the horizon, the mountains can be seen, which serves as a landmark for Vaarys' and Sh'rutal's mutual alliance and friendship as major cities of Kalg'rai. But, not being in the mountains, Vaarys is more susceptible to attacks from wandering creatures, be they from the mountains rarely, or monsters wandering too far from home onto the plains. This doesn't deter the city folk, however, because of their advancement in MagiTech. One could arguably say that Vaarys is even better off for defense with MagiTech due solely to the fact that if something goes wrong, they have the capabilities to manufacture and repair the MagiTech. Although Sh'rutal is capable of doing the same, most of the production comes from Vaarys.
The plains used to be a massive open area of natural level land, however with many years of work, Vaarys became a major part of the plains, and the natural testing grounds for graduates of any magic school or weapon school. Typically, very few rare creatures can be found in Shystae, making it the perfect place to perfect techniques on common creatures and monsters that have inhabited parts of the plains that Vaarys hasn't expanded into. Everything in Vaarys is based off of MagiTech, however, rather than magic and mana themselves. Rather than expending mana in items and making them better, they create items imbued with magic from mana found within the land, which is why the city is so powerful. With limitless mana in the land, and their MagiTech feeding off of that endless mana, their MagiTech have, in essence, limitless power.
There was only one crisis in Vaarys that put a scare of everything they worked for falling apart; the first raid of the creatures of the mountains caught Vaarys off guard, and almost destroyed them as a whole. After barely sliding by in the mini-war that became of the raid, Vaarys propelled into its defenses and productivity. This made Vaarys the most MagiTech focused city, with a military that would outshine, arguably, even Sh'rutal's. Because of their susceptibility to wandering creatures' attacking, they are naturally the place to go if one is looking to improve their combat through MagiTech. They will accept magic training, however, they smile wider to MagiTech usage than that of magic itself.
