Vethixen

Dragon Overlord: Svorx - Red Dragon

Founding
Built into the side of an active volcano that shares the city’s name, the Red City started as a coven of Dragonborn servants to the Red Dragon Svorx. After years of slow growth, the dragon held back the annual large eruptions of the volcano and melded with the heart of the mountain. Because of this, Svorx was bound to the volcano and unable to leave it, yet the Dragonborn inhabitants were gifted with scores of fertile acres and precious metals from which to found a mighty city.

Architecture
The buildings of the Red City were built were renowned for be built into the living volcano. Huge bas-reliefs, hundreds of feet high, decorated the market district of the city while was dominated by trade in rich gems and beautiful metal works taken straight from the mountain. Many of the larger buildings were designed with a style of architecture that celebrated their volcanic home with domes and aqueducts that channeled the ubiquitous magma rivers that ran out of the crater of the volcano.

Culture
The culture of the Vethixen was a culture of craftsmen and traders. Said to be a trait passed to them by their Red Dragon patron, the denizens of the Red City were ambitious, cunning and brave. The local ruling clan was the Flamebrows, a clan of warriors that descended from the original bodyguards of Svorx.

Current Events
The Red City is the only of the original 8 cities to fall. 15 years ago, the last patriarch of the Flamebrows went mad and entered the chamber in which Svorx had imprisoned himself by the heart of the volcano and shut the giant iron doors to the chamber. For six days and nights, the mad patriarch and the dragon king battled a battle the ended in the death of the mighty red dragon. With his death, centuries of held back fury of the volcano erupted, destroying the city. Thousands died in the aftermath of the eruption and the survivors were forced to flee the city. Many left and emigrated to other cities in the empire while the largest part became nomads led by the last patriarch’s son, Dhuryan.

Local Color
Population: 10,000 refugees spread among other cities. 10,000~ nomads. Ruling Clan: Flamebrow, currently led by Duryan.

Districts: N/A, the city is in ruins

Taverns: N/A