Restov
Nowhere is the Rostlandic spirit more alive than in the
Free City of Restov. The city owes its allegiance to the
Brevic crown, and Lord Mayor Ioseph Sellemius (NG male
human aristocrat 3/expert 2) must bend his knee before the
Dragonscale Throne like any lord, but otherwise Restov
belongs to no house, making it a haven for the lost glories
of the Aldori swordlords and those who look back to the
old days before the coming of the Conqueror. Restov is a
city of both refinement and rough-and-tumble manners,
as only a colony can be in fondly recalling and imitating
its motherland. The gentry of Restov consider themselves
sophisticates, although a Taldan visitor would consider
their ways quaint, and touched with no small amount of
northern barbarism. The city is a bustling trade center
along the border. Restov’s relative wealth supports no
small number of idle and titled lordlings and merchants’
sons. They frequent the various Aldori and Taldan
dueling schools, as well as the alehouses, and fight each
other in street corner challenges at dawn and dusk. The
schools, salons, and taprooms of Restov are also hotbeds of
rebellious talk against the reign of King Noleski Surtova,
with young firebrands in search of a leader to rally them
to the cause.