An Sinia

An Sinia is the greatest city of the Riverlands, built upon high bluffs overlooking the Toren River. An earthquake long ago ripped great clefts in the bluff, down to the caverns riddling the stone. This divides the city into three distinct sections - the Undercity, the Old Quarter, and the unimaginatively named New Quarter. An Sinia is the setting of a large arc of Brother, Son, Shadow.

Founding
An Sinia was first a huddle of huts around a ford of the broad Toren River, placed at a crossroads for the caravan routes crisscrossing the Riverlands. The first permanent buildings on the bluff were near the edge, with narrow stairs cut into the rock leading down to the sea caves, which made natural harbors for river traffic.

Monarchist Rule
The Monarchy, upon seizing the Riverlands, made An Sinia a provincial capital, and started massive building project in what is now the An Sinia Old Quarter. It was during Monarchist rule that the great earthquake happened, sundering the bluffs and revealing that the sea caves were only part of a vast network of caverns throughout the rock. The Old Quarter, as a result, lost entire city blocks to fall hundreds of feet down, and the richer citizens began to rebuild farther away, in what is now the New Quarter. However, explorers in the fallen sections of the Old Quarter began to realize that down here, in these caverns, were quite a few natural resources, not to mention improved access to the sea cave harbors that had swelled to accommodate river trade. A silver boom flooded the caverns with immigrants, who remained even after the silver dried up, creating a city rivaling the Old and New Quarter in size.

Mercenary Rule
An Sinia suffered under the Mercenary Era, as its size and splendor made it the subject of many raids and wars. Before the arrival of the Hussar Regiments, An Sinia was the subject of an interior war between two mercenary guilds that ceased trying to coexist, the Decian League and the Blood Mist. The Mayor hired additional troops as policemen, but as always, his focus was on the New Quarter of the city, and the much larger Old Quarter and Undercity remained battlegrounds. Therefore, the city had as many as four rulers - the Mayor, the headman of the Blood Mist, the Decian king, and the Undercity's aged Librarian.

Notable Clans and Groups

 * Decian League
 * Blood Mist

Notable Locations

 * Undercity


 * Old Quarter
 * Mist Hall