Arishaig is a large fortress city in the deep Southland, located near the banks of the Rappahalladran many miles south of Shady Vale. Home to millions of people, it is the Southland's largest city. As the capital city of the Federation, it is also the residence of the Federation's Prime Minister and Coalition Council.
Despite being a formidable city in the time of Railing and Redden Ohmsford, Arishaig could not withstand the might of Tael Riverine and his Demons and the city was burned to the ground. It was rebuilt after the Demons were banished back into the Forbidding, and it was made grander and mightier in its new incarnation. The new city was built as a fortress, ringed with two walls and further protected by an array of defensive weapons and the City Watch.
In the time of the Druid Drisker Arc, Arishaig was described as a massive city built like a wheel, with the rich and elite living in the center, amongst the largest buildings and tallest walls. Additional, multiple sets of walls that became lower and lower and buildings that became smaller and smaller were present as one traveled out from the center. Since its destruction and rebirth, the city had kept growing, expanding to the plains outside the protective walls of the city.
A large complex of Federation prisons known as Assidian Deep is located in the southern portion of the city, close to the outer walls. Assidian Deep was built over a tributary of an underground river that originated in the Anar; this was done because the waters of the tributary was the perfect place in which to dispose of prisoners' bodies.
Trivia[]
- An airship is named after the fortress city.