Once an agricultural powerhouse, and famous site of the first defeat in nearly three centuries for the Voran Empire's notorious Terrorwing division. During the Fall of Anclevan, the massive, sprawling town of farmers, woodsmen, and wilderness rangers was a prime target for the Legionate during The Subjugation, as it was the closest municipality within sight of the yet-un-surrendered Kholean capital of Anclevan. 

It was thought, by Legate Maeka Doomgale, that a show of force demonstrated there by her Terrorwings would demoralize the city defenders and turn the citizenry against the Voltari, thereby greatly expediting the completion of their Second Conquest of the realm. In practise, it achieved the very opposite, as the people of Westmark fought her elite warriors to the bitter end on all fronts. Crops were burned, soil was salted, and ultimately, four of every five men of fighting age in Westmark were killed during the occupation. Legate Ebonia Sootscale, the Dreadqueen, called the occupation 'the worst mark against the Empire since the Dragon's Rift'. The farming town continues its long recovery to this day, many decades later.

Many decades ago, Mistvale served as a place of refuge for arcanists who secretly opposed the Dreadmage Crassius Bray during the reign of the Voltari. As being one of the furthest settlements from the larger cities of Kholea, it became something of a haven for any dissidents to their rule, right up until the Voran Empire's invasion during The Subjugation.

There is a running joke among the locals about the statue in the town square, of Mistvale's fictional founder 'Howard J. Blythe', whose purported deeds grow more and more outrageous with every passing year, since its instalment. Locals have made a game of trying to fool visitors and outsiders into thinking he was, indeed, a historical figure.*

*Editor's note: this entry has been amended for the Sixth Edition of The Stranger's Guide to Destrea, as prior editions' chroniclers were unfortunately had by this particularly devious jape. Well played, Mistvale. -A.G.

The Charging City

Some might rightly call Axel a foolhardy pursuit; others, a testament to human ingenuity, but to anyone who's spent time among the Axelites, the last two descriptors you'd think of for the people themselves would be 'ingenious', or 'foolish'. The Anclevan industrial juggernaut is the brainchild of Herradan Walder, Crassius Bray's chief architect during the reign of the Voltari. The citizenry work and live in rail-linked mobile buildings called 'cars', whose exponential grandiosity continues unabated with each new addition to the city-in-motion. 

Using materials gathered from the woods and mountains in their path, the Axelites build these nature-defiant edifices at a frenetic, surreal pace, adding them to the existing cluster while simultaneously laying fresh rails ahead of them. On average, they add one mile each month- regardless of what lies in their path. This progress is made possible by a robust team of engineers, labourers, technicians, architects, railcar operators, and 'rail-runners' who specialize in ferrying food and other resources from trading partners established further back along the rail network.

Once a citizen has contributed a significant amount of labour to the development of the city (a figure which is in constant flux, according to our research), they are granted a leisurely 'retirement' car, and may travel & settle anywhere along the rails behind Axel proper.

The Obsequious

Once the last bastion of the Voltari's power in the Westerlands, Voltsparr has gone from a thorn in the side of their Voranite occupiers, to a slightly duller thorn in the side of the Anclevan Empire. Its taxes are always late, its people bitter, and it is fittingly cloaked in near-perpetual darkness. Nestled in a hollow mountain cavern in the southern belt of the Torrhen Shield, it has largely been left to its own devices in the years following Aegis' Wake. But as any fungi grower tell you, leaving something in the dark too long may yield quite peculiar results...

The Heavenward Gaze

Site of the massacre of the same name, the skyport town of Clifton Roost lives on in infamy amongst the Irreghani.

Now a veritable boomtown thanks to the post-war popularization of skyship travel, Clifton Roost has significantly expanded in size and population. However, the lingering memories of their forefathers' demise hangs over the town like a tattered and bloodied battle standard. Defiance Square, which sits just beyond the skyship docks, features a haunting memorial sculpture which can't go unnoticed by those who visit– especially former Voranite legionaries.

The Canopied Rose

Tucked away deep in the tall redwood groves on Anclevan's northern border, Felpine grew out of a network of logging camps established roughly half a century ago. Its proximity to both Edonius and the Commonwealth city-states of Floe and New Soldev make it an ideal waytown for Anclevan's sprawling rail network, as well as traditional caravan routes through Torrhen. The lumber mills and iron mines keep Felpine's coffers filled, though it's rarely those who toil in them that reap those rewards. More recently, the town has experienced a great deal of violence between Bakta Syndicate-backed workers' unions, state authorities, and the Torrheni Ranger-Druid Pact.

The Brother City

• The Irreghani counterpart to East Graelia (which resides across the border, in Gorrano). 

• Thought to be built on the battlefield where Irreghan and Mort'hano, of Kinfaith/Elementist legends, fought their final battle against 

"Glider"

"Razer"

"Ravager"