Iriaebor
City in The Green Fields, The Western Heartlands · the City of a Thousand Spires
Iriaebor is a crowded city of merchant towers on a long ridge above the Green Fields of the Western Heartlands, a hub of trade between the Sword Coast and the realms to the east.
Tall merchant towers crowd shoulder to shoulder along the ridge, bridges and stairs link them high above narrow streets, and the wide Green Fields roll away below on every side.
Iriaebor at a glance
- Also known as
- the City of a Thousand Spires, the Overland City
- Type & size
- Trading city on a ridge, About 16,000 (1372 DR)
- Allegiance & rule
- Allegiance: Independent, within Elturgard's sphere of influence; a member of the Lords' Alliance
- Ruled by: A lord, with powerful merchant houses competing for influence
- People & culture
- Mostly humans, with halflings and dwarves; ambitious, mercantile and crowded
- Key exports & trade
- Goods traded between the Western Heartlands and the realms of the east
- Banking and merchant services
Overview
Iriaebor is built along a narrow ridge rising from the Green Fields. With little room to spread out, its merchants built upwards, and the city is famous for its forest of towers. Roads lead from here to Easting, Berdusk and on to the realms of the east, and the Far Hills lie to the north.
The city lives on trade, and its merchant houses are rich, proud and constantly scheming against each other for wealth and influence.
In adventures
Iriaebor suits intrigue: rival houses hire adventurers to guard, spy, steal or deliver, and a job for one tower often makes an enemy of the next.
At the table
- Two merchant houses each hire the party to deliver the same sealed letter to the city's lord before the other one does.
On the map
Roads from Iriaebor
Regions nearby
- The Green FieldsPlains · Iriaebor lies within it
- The Far HillsHills · ~53 mi north
Nearby places
- EastingTown · ~70 mi
- AsbravnTown · ~83 mi
- BerduskTown · ~97 mi
- Hill's EdgeTown · ~125 mi
- PriapurlTown · ~160 mi
- ScornubelCity · ~165 mi
Distances as the crow flies, measured on our map.