#meravia

[edhela]

the Veyant Gates of Carellia

Because the Free City of Carellia is an unmoored, floating city in the sky, getting there from the surface (or vice versa) is rather difficult, as it requires either full teleportation, the ability to fly, or access to one of the eight Veyant Gates. These gates are massive, the width of a city street, and are positioned at 8 points around the perimeter of the city. The gates are keyed to a matching gate located somewhere on the surface of the earth, but can only be opened from the Carellian side. Only three of the gates are actually functional, as the others have had their surface counterpart destroyed.

Mercury Gate: on the western coast of Vekyr

Venus Gate: on an island off the coast of Meravia

Mars Gate: on an island off the coast of Laemirsel.

Jupiter Gate: destroyed

Saturn Gate: destroyed (but intended to be rebuilt in Forlante)

Uranus Gate: destroyed

Neptune Gate: destroyed

Pluto Gate: destroyed

[rysingsun-art]

Meravia concept

drawn fall 2020

[cakeassassins]

CODEX: Valenzia

Valenzia is a city built on blade and bone. Unlike Gran Stelazza, Caerdova’s shining capitol, its beauty is a clever artifice -- a trap for the gullible, who swiftly become prey. Do not walk alone in fair Valenzia unless you can move with the confident gait of a predator. Assume that every citizen on its narrow little streets harbors secrets dark and dangerous. Believe, with good reason, that every soul you encounter is in possession of a weapon, be it a sharp tongue or an even sharper sword. Be wary, for this is a city that deals in death. 

Above all, know that Valenzia belongs to the Weavers. Remember this, if nothing else. It might just be the one thing that saves you.

-- Excerpted from a letter sent by a bookseller to his assistant, later found dead in a Valenzian canal