Lady's Rest
Lady's Rest
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Population
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16,000 (Human 70% • Halfling 15% • Dwarf 10% • Half-Orc 3% • Other 2%)
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Government
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• Chamber of Succor: A republic-style governing body, made up of citizens who maintain charities, orphanages, hospitals, and the like.
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Defense
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• The Lady's Guard: A permanent militia force that rides patrols around the settlements of Lady's Rest, as well as providing peacekeeping for the city.
• The People's Arms: All adult male citizens are required to spend six months as part of the Lady's Guard when they reach twenty years of age, and become part of district-based cadres of militia who train together once a month. • The Hospitalers: The Sovereign Military and Hospitaler Order lends half of its chapterhouse knights to the use of Lady's Rest at any given time. |
Commerce
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• Trade: Medicines, Fish, Wheat
• Services: Healers • Training: The Academy of the Lady's Mercy (healer's school), the Dome of Ardun (anatomical and medicinal training). |
Organizations
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• The Great Hospital, healing center for Hospitalers
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City Map
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The city of Lady's Rest has a history lost in legends. Local folklore say that one of the Empyrean goddesses - the modern version claims it was Kaedlah, but evidence suggests it has been claimed to have been others in previous centuries - was badly wounded in some battle she fought. She struggled out of the ocean, where her divine foe cast her, and she struggled to shore at the confluence of two rivers, where a number of fishing huts stood. The legend says the people did not know she was a goddess, but gave her shelter and food anyway, caring for her wounds as best they could. When she departed, she lay a blessing on the folk there, promising them prosperity so long as they would continue to care for one another and for strangers.
In the time since, the city has grown, but has remembered its founding. Lady's Rest is well-known for its physicians and hospitals, and for its houses of the poor and orphans. The Sovereign Military and Hospitaler Order of the Crossroads also maintains a great structure here, the Great Hospital where they both treat the ill and injured for free while using that opportunity to teach their students the healing arts.
Currency: Like most of the River Kingdoms, Lady's Rest uses Guildscoin.
• Mercy (1cp): They do also make a small triangular copper piece (marked with a pair of praying hands on one side, and the candle-and-apples symbol of the city on the other) called a mercy that can be given to the poor and beggars to spend in the city's food markets and healing centers. Only the clearly destitute can spend them.
