Cetho

Cetho is the city surrounding the Untheileneise Court.

Appears in
The Goblin Emperor

The Grief of Stones

Description
The Court itself is actually larger than the city surrounding it. The city is relatively far from Amalo, requiring an airship ride for easy travel between the two.

The Ceth'ulimeire is the ulimeire of Cetho. It is located "on the outskirts of Cetho . . . The temple and the wall around the graveyard were made alike of crumbling red brick. The pillars of the temple portico were in need of a coat of whitewash, and their capitals were shaggy with abandoned birds’ nests. Weeds thronged the cracks between the paving stones of the walkway from gate to temple, and the grass in the graveyard had grown so tall that the tops of the gravestones appeared like small, barren islands in a tempestuous and brittle sea.” The temple itself is quite small and poor.

The University of Cetho is an institute in Cetho. The architecture has some sort of harmonization, as opposed to the jumble of geography at the University of Amalo.

There is a Municipal Choir of Cetho, which performed for Maia Drazhar near his birthday and/or Winternight.

Cetho also has a Horsemarket.

The Cetho Workers League is located in Cetho. Working conditions there are terrible for many: poor young children die of treatable diseases, and older children die in the factories, while the widows of male workers often cannot support their families.

Setheris Nelar temporarily worked as Lord Chancellor Uleris Chavar's Liaison to the City of Cetho. The position typically involves paperwork and dealing a lot with the tangles of taxation, and the holder reports to the Lord Chancellor.

Many merchants who trade between Barizhan and the Ethuveraz keep offices in Cetho because it makes obtaining approval for customs forms and travel visas faster. Cetho also has auction houses where the goods of relegated nobles are sometimes sent. There is a large contingent of goblin merchants who reside there.

Cetho has a mayor. Teru Tethimar is the Archprelate of Cetho.

There is a chapter of the Vigilant Brotherhood of Cetho, and they hold competing jurisdiction in the Nevennamire.