Irim

Irim

(City)

Region

Nisroch Bay

Size

Small city

Demographics

Aquatic elves

Government

Academic

Ruler

Riftia

Source: World Guide, pg(s). 69

Irim is a city of aquatic elves hidden in the continental margin off the northern coast of Ravounel and west of Nidal in Nisroch Bay.

Geography

Irim's dwellings, built into the continental slope, are concealed by kelp forests and connect to a cave system that has been inhabited since before the elves returned from Sovyrian.

Government

Irim is ruled by the Riftia, a group of scholars who inhabit the deepest caves, breathe from hydrothermal vents, and read portents in the movement of tube worms. For most of its history, Irim has been hidden from surface dwellers, only communicating with their cousins in the Mordant Spire. Recently, the Riftia has made contact with the government of Ravounel, offering to protect their ports from pirates in exchange for their aid in locating an artifact known as the Lornoc Catalyst, something that they must not reveal to surface elves.

People

Irim's inhabitants live pastoral lives, tending isopod herds or sea anemone farms from which they harvest food and neurotoxins.