New+Cyre

=New Cyre=

"The rolling hills of Breland spread out beneath them. New Cyre sat nestled at the base of small range of rugged cliffs." "The streets were clean, straight and uncluttered. The roofs of the houses were painted in a rainbow of colors, giving the entire town a welcome, cheerful appearance."
 * -- Rich Wulf**, from //Flight of the Dying Sun// (2007), pp. 236-237

Party Experiences in New Cyre

 * First Visit:** the Golden Dragon of New Cyre was booked, so the company stayed at the Gem, a seedy joint with gambling, ladies and drugs. Not very safe, but a game of Three Dragon Ante was had against our inquisitive Tharashk rival. The next day, the company redeemed their letter of credit at the Kundarak Bank, then met at the Golden Dragon in preparation for their visit to the Prince's Residence, where they would request information and aid before undertaking their investigation.

The New Cyre Town Hall also serves as the headquarters for Prince Oargev ir'Wynarn. It is a three-story wood-and-stone structure, newly-built like almost everything in New Cyre. Aside from the town offices, the building also includes a modest ballroom, a "throne" room where the Prince receives official visitors, and a suite of private offices where the Prince does the grunt work of leading both New Cyre and the Cyran Diaspora.


 * Subsequent Visits:**

After King Boranel's death in the second month (Olarune), thousands of individuals -- secret and known members of the anti-monarchist Swords of Liberty -- began leaving their hometowns and villages across Breland, walking and riding towards the northern Seawall Mountains. Few noticed the departures at the time, and none were stopped. Slowly forming into units, finding arms and supplies with sympathizers along the way, they eventually mustered their full strength at the House Vadalis enclave, PrairieHearth, which had been betrayed by one of their own and claimed for the Swords of Liberty by their mysterious leader, the Red Owl. This army -- reinforced by mercenaries from the Mror Holds and the infamous Manifest Legion -- stole all the Vadalis livestock and horses and marched on New Cyre with intent to slaughter the former Prince (now Governor) and all surviving Cyrans.

The Battle of New Cyre took place in the first days of Eyre 998 YK, and was won by a combined force of Cyran militia, Brelish Army units, elements of the King's Citadel (Breland's elite forces), and a party of heroes. All the enemy leaders were either killed or captured, but at a cost of hundreds of lives on both sides.

Adventure Hooks
The Prince, while not commanding great sums of money, has offered to subsidize missions into the Mournland, and there's a standing reward for information or clues that may solve the mystery of The Mourning. He also has a plan to gain the release of ethnic Cyrans trapped inside Darguun. "There are more Cyrans wearing Goblin shackles than in the rest of Khorvaire combined," Oargev has said.

A party of adventurers, including Warden Nina Moondown, Colden Torbald of House Orien, Thomas the Aundairian wizard, Brackenmore Willington of Q'Barra and Alfred the Feral Bard, recently collected on this reward by bringing back a Minor Schema for making so-called "Mourning Stones," as well as finished stones ready for use as weapons.

Defenses
At the moment, only a few sections of New Cyre's walls are made of stone. Ninety percent of the walls remain wooden stockades. Considering the vast majority of Cyrans out of the country when The Mourning hit were soldiers (including prisoners of war released after the end of the War in 996 YK), New Cyre can boast an impressive combat-trained militia in case of emergency.

There are small groves of Composite trees around New Cyre. These magebred conifers -- an apparent crossbreed of yew and willow -- were first seen around the time of the War of the Mark; many believe them to have been a joint project of Houses Lyrandar and Vadalis, to meet House Deneith specifications for an "ideal" source of wood and resin for making superior bows. Every Cyran militiaman carries a shortbow or longbow made from "composite."

Economy
Economically, New Cyre is starting to make a name for itself in salt, as a couple of early Galifar mines have been reopened in the nearby cliffs. House Orien-organized salt caravans travel regularly to Sterngate, Starilaskur and Kennrun, bringing badly-needed trade goods and currency to the displaced Cyrans. The cliffs seep water in several places, which collects in cisterns dug by the Cyrans to provide a fresh water source. The Prince hopes that, starting in 998 YK, New Cyre will be self-sustaining in food, as a wave of homesteaders and tenant farmers (working parcels of land owned by Brelish nobles hundreds of miles away in Sharn and Wroat) plant their first crops. This plan suffered a setback when two families, the Murnies and Millers, were slain by Goblinoids.

In mid-Zarantyr 998 YK, New Cyre staked a claim to a forgotten Eberron Dragonshard mine just west of the foothills to the northern Seawall Mountains. Cursory analysis by a House Tharashk finder indicated there were still shards to be mined, as did the presence of shards among the possessions of deceased Dark Hand Goblinoids who had occupied the mine and other nearby sites for reasons that remain a mystery.

In late Zarantyr, a long-abandoned Dwarf hold, once belonging to a branch of Clan Soldorak of the Mror Holds, was discovered and liberated by adventurers. What, if anything, Prince Oargev can do with this site is to be determined.

In late Olarune a breakthrough deal was announced in Wroat, Trolanport and the capital of Darguun. Breland and Zilargo agreed to pursue normal trade relations with Darguun and support full nationhood status; Darguun agreed to begin repatriating thousands of its slaves; and Prince Oargev renounced his claim to Darguun (once southern Cyre) and, as a vassal to the Brelish crown, any remaining claim to the unified throne of lost Galifar.

In early Therendor Oargev was appointed Governor of Yedan's Expanse, the vast, sparsely-populated region of northern and eastern Breland, and New Cyre was named the regional capital. Oargev's authority does not reach into any of the established cities such as Starilaskur and Diamond Gulch, nor to any land holdings of the Brelish noble families, nor to any enclaves of the Twelve. This still leaves thousands of square miles that are technically open to redevelopment and re-population. The appointment upset many in both Breland and among the Cyran diaspora, as a couple of scandalous publications can attest.

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