The Doug Alone

The City of Hub was once a fairly practical name: a place where trade routes both north and south of the Angory Mountains could meet not far from the Atlean Sea to the northeast and, roughly, a river-ride from the Onnian Sea to the south. In those days, it would be a rough scrabble place full of loud merchants. Rare furs from Fellig. Expensive ore from Yarlken. Fine jewelry from the craftsman in Nallstay. Perfumes from Guillarme. Fishmarkets from Thelmion. The amount of trade was only limited by the walls which grew twice in those early days. Scholars from the Old Khelian Empire describe it taking days to walk through all the stalls in Hub.  Centuries of growth lead to decay. Increases in both technology and magic meant the city was being left more and more with detritus. Some merchants came together and founded the Hub Center for Renovation. The inner core of the city was rebuilt to be a school of learning not only rivaling but exceeding anything that Old Khalid had to offer. Shops an

  Passing the Salamanders A tribe of Salamanders make their home on the south edge of the valley in some of the slower moving lava pools. The road between the two shrines acts as a sort of edge to their hunting grounds and sometimes a few hunters will camp out here or there to snare a fire beetle backing in the road or to catch a cultist who dares wander south from their usual digs in the more northern arc of the valley.  The road itself is amazingly well kept. Jonias Grunkheart used fuelstone in the cobble and unbeknownst to him the technology "feeds" off the Light (of which the energy is massive abundant here) and repairs itself slightly over time ("Does fuelstone itself feed off the light as a side effect of its alien origins?" 13, Yes, but... the full control requires an interface which is mostly lost (but might be regained)).  Since the road does not connect directly to the Salamander tribe and since the tribe is not extremely sizeable and therefore unlikely to