Cemchelarna

Cemchelarna is a district in Amalo.

Appears in
The Witness for the Dead

The Grief of Stones

Description
Cemchelarna is on "the Zheimela Road between the city wall and the canal", and "had been intensely fashionable" about 500 years prior to the events of The Witness for the Dead, "and was now a mix of manufactory workers and artists."

Along the Zheimela Road is Emperor Belvorsina III Square, east of which is Hawthorne Street, and then the Abandoned Bridge, which is full of shops and houses, some erected over the buried river. The eponymous Abandoned Bridge has wrought-iron railings. South of the bridge is North Petunia Street, and then the East Water Works, and more houses and shops. Vinsu Nadaran's boardinghouse is located there. The Abandoned Bridge is seemingly a common place for suicides, or suicide is a relatively common discovery in the district by the local chapter of the Vigilant Brotherhood.

The nearest tram stop for the Cemchelarna Brotherhood watchhouse is the Eshaimi ostro, which is in the same building as the watchhouse. "The watchhouse had no crypt and no cold room".

Cemchelarna has many pawn shops, many of which are located on Pawnbrokers' Row.

The district has the Cemchelarna Foundling School Board, which seems to manage the local foundling school. There was a school there run by Pavalo Temin called the Cemchelarna School for Foundling Girls, but it was shut down when Pavalo's plots were uncovered, and the girls taken elsewhere.

There is a post office on Goshawk Street, which is in the eastern half of Cemchelarna, across the Abandoned Bridge, into Lacemaker Street, to a cross street called Pigeon Street, and then south to Goshawk Street. There is also an othasmeire on Goshawk Street.

The municipal cemetery is Ulvoranee, and at the time of The Grief of Stones, was around 500 years old, and built when the district “was a fashionable residential district for courtiers and bureaucrats. The main building was stone with marble facing, and the courtyard had at one time had a fountain in the center, although that had been turned off centuries ago.”

Residents

 * Arveneän Shelsin (former) (deceased)
 * Camilo Lethormin
 * Othas'ala Delemar
 * Iäna Pel-Thenhior
 * Kelmaru (former)
 * Mobrasar
 * Pavalo Temin (former) (deceased)
 * Othalo Prenevin
 * Rhadeän Nadin
 * Tedoro (former) (deceased)
 * Othala Umenar
 * Velhiro Tomasaran
 * Vinsu Nadaran
 * Vobora Bazhevar (possibly former)