Amalo

A city in Thu-Athamar, from which the airship Wisdom of Choharo departed on her final flight. 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. The city's prelacy is "a nest of vipers," especially the priests of Ulis.

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

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

The city has public municipal baths, and metered gas and steam lines to provide light and heat.

One of the biggest import firms is Duhalada and Cedherad.

Amalo has many newspapers, including the Herald of Amalo.

Amalo has a Guild of prostitutes; poor prostitutes are those who cannot afford to work in a Guild brothel and work the streets. Guild enforcers attack non-Guild prostitutes.

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

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.

Parts of the city
The city has several 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 Celehar has his office.

The Airmen's Quarter is directly south of the Veren'malo, and connects to it via the Zulnicho tramline. The municipal cemetery for the 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 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. (It predates by generations the law that bars cannot be teahouses as well.)

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 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 Celehar's time, and the houses are made of brick formed from local clay.

Transportation
Tram lines connect different 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.

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 include the Vestrano (which connects the Veren'malo with wealthy neighborhoods north of the Mich'Maika), the Zulnicho (which heads straight south from the Dachenostro to the Airman's Quarter, with a stop at the Ulvanensee).