Lanniston

Lanniston is the capital city of the kingdom of Jaredon.

City Plan
The city's official jurisdiction ends with the gigantic city wall, a miracle of stonework thirty metres high and eight metres wide at its narrowest. The city itself sits in a great depression in the land where the ground thinned until it reached the water table, which is now represented by the Deep Well at the heart of the royal castle. A bustling city home to half a million people, the maelstrom of buildings within the citadel have no real organisation or solidarity; every one is as different as the hands that built them.

The castle itself is a myriad of turrets and towers. An uncommon arrangement that houses all three of the ruling guilds, the structure rises high, high above the city wall. It is said to be a mile high from base to tip, but having been built in a depression makes it seem a lot shorter. Built from the same moss-covered stone as the city wall, it has stood for countless centuries and is now effectively a part of the landscape it was built upon; the soil that covers its foundations was once not there, and the oldest trees that offer the castle's inhabitants shade were not even grains of pollen when man first placed stone to build the grand design.

Leadership
The city is headed by the Queen Regent herself, Lauren Hagen. With her are the two guild masters, Lord Byron Oliver of the Machinists' Guild and Lord Uriah of the Magicians' Guild. While she holds the final say on the goings on of the politics of Jaredon, she tends to consult them a lot more than most heads of state would. Some whisper that it is a breach of the Treatise, while others are proud to say that it is likely that this ease of discussion is what allowed Queen Lauren to enact the wonderful work she had organised for the country.