Talinsthorpe

The great northern port — and the seat of the Order of Saatti.

Talinsthorpe is the largest city of the northern frontier: a grey, salt-stained port on the cold northern coast, where the empire’s one great highway begins its run south toward the pass at Halgard. It is wealthy, crowded, and watchful — a working harbor city that has changed hands by conquest and remembers it.

The city is ruled by a Voznian dynasty that won Talins by the sword and has never fully digested its conquest; the old Talins blood beneath them has long memories and longer grievances. Holding it all together — and holding the roads that feed it — is the Order of Saatti, whose discipline keeps the peace in the great cities of the empire. Talinsthorpe is their seat on this frontier.

It is also home to a Saatti Order House: one of the places where knights are armed, re-equipped, and brought for the finer gear and enchantments their golems can carry. For a company working the north, Talinsthorpe is where you resupply, where you hear the rumors first, and where the work — honest or otherwise — tends to find you.

When the wars of the border turn hot, Talinsthorpe is a prize. More than one campaign on this frontier has ended at its gates.