Ur

Ur, the city of despair, the deathshead, mother of slavery is the second city of the Xanathuan Empire.

The Bastion of the West
 Originally built as a bastion against the barbarian people of the west and as a base of operation for future conflicts with Monolith. The military branch of Xanathu call Ur its home and the majority of the city-states soldiers are garrisoned here. Tribute gathered from the tribes of the borderlands are sufficient to keep the army self-supported. Urs function has changed over time however as it now primarily serves as a base of operations for the house of slavery and a way of controlling the newly conquered puppet-states of the west through military force.

Slavery

 From Ur thousands of expeditionary forces reach out into the west in search for slaves. The slaves are then shipped downstreams to Xanathu to either work inside the city as house slaves or labour away their lives in the many plantations of “paradise”.

 As Xanathus demand for timber increases as it’s constantly expanding, the newly annexed parts of Yggdra are currently being deforested. The milling guilds currently resides in the city of Ur being protected by the city military in exchange for economic support.  Architecture

 Ur is a city unique in its architecture. The city itself is carved out of gargantuan statue depicting a grinning face. It’s this feature which has given the city it’s nickname: the deathshead. There is no written record of how, when and who created this monument. The aboriginals of this region claim that it’s the head of a dead god, a titan. The statues origin remains a mystery.