Amalo

Amalo is a city in Thu-Athamar, well-known as the place from which the airship Wisdom of Choharo departed on her final flight. It also serves as the headquarters and home of Thara Celehar in The Cemeteries of Amalo.

Novels
The Goblin Emperor

The Witness for the Dead

The Grief of Stones

Short Stories
Lora Selezh

Min Zemerin's Plan

Airships and Commerce
Almost a third of the city's people are involved in the manufacture of airships, which are the chief source of the principality's revenue.

Many of the workers in the airship factories are Curneisei, followers of the philosophy of Curnar. Most of the Curneisei have no intention of trying to seize power or overthrow those with power over them, but they like to believe that they would be justified if they did.

One of the local airship companies is the Amal-Athamareise Airship Company, which refitted the Wisdom of Choharo and in which the Curneisei conspirators who created the bomb worked.

One of the biggest import firms is Duhalada and Cedherad.

Entertainment, Eating, General Living
There are multiple opera houses, including the Amal'opera, Chelim'opera, Parav'opera, the Prince Orchena Opera/Orchen'opera, and the Vermilion Opera.

There are many teahouses, especially in the Airmen's Quarter.

One of the most common bars for Curneisei airmen is the Cloud Horses.

“Tivalinee was a famous gambling house, patronized by the Ponichada and the Alchinada.”

Amalo has many newspapers, including the Amalo Arbiter, the Evening Standard, and the Herald of Amalo.

Amalo has a Guild of prostitutes; poor prostitutes are cannot afford to work in a Guild brothel and thus work the streets. Guild enforcers attack non-Guild prostitutes. In Amaleise slang, non-Guild prostitutes are called Iönraio (plural Iönraioi) which is also the word for a queen-cat in heat.

The city has public municipal baths, and metered gas and steam lines to provide light and heat. Boarding houses fly green-and-silver flags to indicate an empty room.

Government
The Vigilant Brotherhood of Amalo keeps order in the streets and arrests perpetrators of crime against whom there is evidence. They also run a morgue and handle bodies dead in suspicious circumstances, although they do not themselves investigate crime.

Orchenis Clunethar, the Prince of Thu-Athamar, rules Amalo, second to the emperor, and pronounces judicial sentences. There is also a city council that provides legislation.

Religion
The city's prelacy is "a nest of vipers," especially the priests of Ulis.

Since the lifeblood of the city are the Zhomaikora and the Mich’maika canal, the city is full of shrines to Csaivo, the goddess of rivers. The city wall is north of the canal.

There are catacombs beneath the city. The chief temple is called the Amalomeire.

Unlike the south and west, the region around Amalo has at least three main sects (with different funeral practices) and many other splinter groups, traditions, hero groups, and secretive kindreds.

Geography
The city is made up of many districts, quarters, and other areas, including the Airmen's Quarter and the Veren'malo.

The Veren'malo is also known as the Old City. It is built on a hill and contains hulking government buildings of the Amaleise Court. One of the buildings is the Prince Zhaicava Building, where Thara and the the Amalo Municipal Tramline Authority have offices.

The Airmen's Quarter is directly south of the Veren'malo, and connects to it via the Zulnicho tramline. The municipal cemetery for the Airmen's Quarter is the Ulvanensee.

The Zheimela district is named for Lake Zheimela. The western shore of Lake Zheimela is home to bourgeois families living in tiny bungalows. The Mich'maika runs through the Zheimela district, and there are lots of bars and gambling houses on the southern side of the Mich'maika at the eastern end of the district. There are many docks and warehouses and other businesses as well. Of the bars, only the Canalman's Dog is open during the day; it also operates as a teahouse and is built around an ancient shrine to Osreian, and predates by generations the law that bars cannot be teahouses as well.

Cemchelarna is on the Zheimela Road between the city wall and the canal. It was fashionable 500 years ago and is now home to artists and manufactory workers. It is serviced by the Coribano tramline. There used to be a Cemchelarna river. The Abandoned Bridge over where it used to be has shops and houses along its length, and many of the buildings on top of the buried river have bridges to it.

North of the Ulvanensee is a Sanctuary of Csaivo nestled in a curve of the Mich'maika. The Bridge Street ostro is nearby, as is the Reveth'veraltamar where bodies in the canal wash aground.

There are wealthy neighborhoods north of the Mich'maika, which are connected to the Veren'malo by the Vestrano tramline. One stop on the tramline is at the Dachen Csaivanat, "the deepest well in the north of the world." It has a shrine and a csaivaitheileian and a tea shop called Lady of Rivers. The neighborhood around it was new two generations before Thara's time, and the houses are made of brick formed from local clay.

“The Parzhadeise compound was in the plains to the northwest of the city, where the nobles had fled as the wealthy merchants began taking over the districts immediately around the Veren’malo.”

The River Road heads out of the city to the southwest. On the way, it has many types of neighborhoods. First quiet bourgeois neighborhoods, then rows of shops, a strip of competing dance halls and gambling houses (though nothing to compare with the Zheimela), and then more houses, poorer, shabbier, and then out into the farmers’ fields. Outside the city is a sanctuary and maze dedicated to Orshan.

Transportation
The Amalo Municipal Tramline Authority runs trams to all parts of the city. A stop on a tram line is called an "ostro." The main, central tram line is the Dachenostro. Most major shrines have ostros near them. There is also a municipal ferry on the Mich'maika. In the middle of the day, it is easier to take the ferry from the middle of town to the Zheimela district. In the evening as the factories close and workers head to the bars on the southern side of the Mich'maika, the tram is easier than the ferry.

The Tramline Authority has a department of cartographers in the Prince Zhaicava Building, with maps to the whole city and directions to every major landmark in Amalo. The master mapmaker is Dachensol Orzhimar. The mapmakers are mostly young elven men, and the clerks are mostly middle-aged elven ladies.

It is fashionable for young men and women of the bourgeoisie to take the tram instead of their family carriages, but young women of that class usually travel in pairs when they take the tram, and the family carriage when they travel alone.

Tramlines
The Vestrano tramline connects the Veren'malo with wealthy neighborhoods north of the Mich'Maika.

The Zulnicho tramline heads straight south from the Dachenostro to the Airmen's Quarter, with a stop at the Ulvanensee.

The Coribano tramline follows Zheimela Road out the Zheimel'tana to Emperor Belvorsina III Square, in the Cemchelarna.

Residents

 * Aäthis Rohethar
 * Aina Shuilvar (former) (deceased)
 * Aiva Vernezar
 * Arveneän Shelsin (former) (deceased)
 * Aiveän Zemerin
 * Amiru Chonhadrin
 * Arveneän Shelsin (former) (deceased)
 * Merrem Bechevaran
 * Brenaro Osthonharad (former) (deceased)
 * Broset Sheveldar (former) (deceased)
 * Dach'osmer Cambeshar
 * Cataro Selezhen (former) (deceased)
 * Cebris Pershar
 * Cladeän Pazhilavin
 * Cretheno Cambesharan
 * Csenaia Ulzhavar
 * Davelo Matano
 * Ediro Zanarin (potentially former)
 * Osmer Elithar
 * Ema Dravenezh
 * Evrenis Bralchenar (former) (deceased)
 * Iäna Pel-Thenhior
 * Osmer Isthanar
 * Keila Osthonharad‎‎
 * Lenet Athmaza
 * Lideän Pazhilavaran
 * Meletho Balvedin
 * Neshevis Pazhilavar (former) (deceased)
 * Dachensol Orzhimar
 * Otilis Ulzhavar
 * Marquess Parzhadel
 * Othalo Rasaltezhen
 * Rhadeän Nadin
 * Stava Pazhilavar
 * Min Talenin
 * Tarazho Zemerin
 * Thara Celehar
 * Toreän Nochenin
 * Ulthora Csathamar
 * Veliso (former) (deceased)
 * Vineän Brenhazin
 * Vinsu Nadaran
 * Zhodeän Parmorin