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| − | [[Image:Places Kovir.png|right|300px|Lan Exeter]] |
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| + | |Type = City |
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| + | |Country = [[Kovir and Poviss]] |
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| − | Image:Icon City.png |
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| + | |Geo_map = Places Kovir.png |
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| − | default [[Cities and keeps#Cities|City]] |
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| + | |Region = [[Gulf of Praxeda]] |
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| + | |Location = At the mouth of the [[Targo]] |
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| + | |Appears_books = {{ToC}}<br>{{TTotS}}<br>{{TLotL}} |
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| + | |Image = Lan exeter by Jana Komárková.png |
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| + | |Appears_games = {{BaW}} {{Mo}}}} |
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| ⚫ | '''Lan Exeter''' is the winter capital and a major port city in [[Kovir and Poviss|Kovir]]. The summer capital is [[Pont Vanis]]. The city is located on a bay in the [[Gulf of Praxeda]] in the [[North Sea]] at the mouth of the [[Targo]], where it dumps out into the gulf. The city has no streets, and as such, local navigation is accomplished via the Great Canal. |
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| ⚫ | The Grand Canal leads directly from the port to the royal residence, [[Ensenada Palace]]. Along the way, the canal is flanked by the palatial estates of the admiralty and local business magnates, not to mention many grand, though narrow homes. The narrowness of these estates and mansions being due to the onerous tax placed on canal frontage. |
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| ⚫ | '''Lan Exeter''' is winter capital and a major port city in [[Kovir and Poviss|Kovir]]. The summer capital is [[Pont Vanis]]. The city is located on a bay in the [[Gulf of Praxeda]] in the [[North Sea]] at the mouth of the [[Targo]], where it into the gulf. The city has no streets, local navigation is accomplished via the Great Canal. |
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| ⚫ | The Grand Canal leads directly from the port to the royal residence, Ensenada. Along the way, the canal is flanked by the palatial estates of the admiralty and local business magnates, not to mention many grand, though narrow homes. The narrowness of these estates and mansions being due to the onerous tax placed on canal frontage. |
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Regiments protecting the city are called [[City Watch]].<ref>Bestiary entry of [[Garkain]]</ref> |
Regiments protecting the city are called [[City Watch]].<ref>Bestiary entry of [[Garkain]]</ref> |
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| − | == Notable |
+ | == Notable People == |
| + | * [[Carduin]] |
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| − | A well-known personality in the city is the [[mage]], [[Carduin]], one of council members of the [[Brotherhood of Sorcerers]] during the [[Thanedd coup]]. In ''[[The Tower of the Swallow]]'', Queen [[Zuleyka]] mentions that the sorceress [[Sheala de Tancarville]] is staying in the city. |
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| + | * [[Esterad Thyssen]] |
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| + | * [[Zuleyka]] |
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| + | ==Trivia== |
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| − | == Notes & references == |
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| + | * The particular plan of the city is an obvious reference to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice Venice], a city within Italy. |
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Revision as of 07:04, 3 July 2020
Lan Exeter is the winter capital and a major port city in Kovir. The summer capital is Pont Vanis. The city is located on a bay in the Gulf of Praxeda in the North Sea at the mouth of the Targo, where it dumps out into the gulf. The city has no streets, and as such, local navigation is accomplished via the Great Canal.
The Grand Canal leads directly from the port to the royal residence, Ensenada Palace. Along the way, the canal is flanked by the palatial estates of the admiralty and local business magnates, not to mention many grand, though narrow homes. The narrowness of these estates and mansions being due to the onerous tax placed on canal frontage.
Regiments protecting the city are called City Watch.[1]
Notable People
Trivia
- The particular plan of the city is an obvious reference to Venice, a city within Italy.