Lunathion

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Lunathion, otherwise known as Crescent City, is a wild and dangerous city. It is located on Valbara's southeastern coast, midway up the Hand.

History[]

Lunathion was built as a model of the ancient coastal city around the Rhagan Sea, a near-exact replica that includes its sandstone walls, the arid climate, the olive groves, and little farms that line distant hills beyond the city borders to the north, and down to the great temple for a patron goddess in the very center. However, unlike those cities it's modeled after, Lunathion has been allowed to adapt.

Micah Domitus, the Governor, was responsible for updating and modernizing the city. He saw Lunathion as a tribute to the old model but also as a place for the future to thrive. Streets lay in an orderly grid, not a tangle, and modern buildings jut up like lances, far surpassing the strict height codes of Pangera.

For Lunathion's temple, the city's patron goddess, Luna, was crafted from a single block of marble hewn from the famed Caliprian Quarries by the Melanthos River up north. The temple was the first thing built upon the city's founding five hundred years ago. The location of the city was selected precisely because of the way the Istros River bends through the land in the shape of a crescent. This is why the city is sometimes referred to as Crescent City.

General Information[]

The metropolis is ruled by seven Heads of the City. Each Head controls a specific part of the city. The governor, who is Head of the Central Business District is above the six others. The Prime of the wolves is Head of Moonwood, the Fae Autumn King is Head of Five Roses, the Under-King is Head of the Bone Quarter, the Viper Queen is Head of the Meat Market, the Oracle is the Head of the Old Square, and the River Queen represents the House of Many Waters and her Blue Court of the Istros River. The humans, who live in Asphodel Meadows, have no Head and thus no voice in how the city is run. Security and law enforcement is carried out by the Auxiliary and the 33rd Legion. The city is covered in cameras, all with unparalleled visual and audio coverage. Even apartment buildings have mandatory monitors in the hallways.

There are seven Gates in the city, each set along a ley line running through Lunathion. They had been designed as a quick way for the guards in the districts to speak to each other centuries ago. People merely had to place a hand against the golden disk in the center of the pad and speak. The wielder's voice would travel to the other Gates, a gem lighting up with the district from which the voice originated. Today the Gates are used as a tourist attraction due to technology such as mobile phones.

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Trivia[]

Sarah J. Maas has stated in an interview that Lunathion is a modern city, whose citizens have modern technology.^[1]
Lunathion is noted as the only place in all of Midgard where humans have some rights.^{[citation needed]}
The newspaper in Lunathion is called the Crescent City Times.^{[citation needed]}
Aelin Galathynius fell through Lunathion in the book Kingdom of Ash from the Throne of Glass series, another series by Sarah J. Maas.

References[]

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[1] SJM Interview

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