Jaerx Shash



Dragon Overlord: The Silver Saint - Silver Dragon

Founding
The twin cities of Jaerx Shash and Jaerx Ver’oss were founded by two sons of a poor prophet of Bahamut. Both began their lives in complete poverty but managed to both amass small fortunes working as mercenaries. Hearing their father was ill, the brothers, Shash and Ver’oss rushed back to their dying father. With his last breath, spoke of a prophecy and told each to wander the wilderness with his family until he found a single coin upon the ground and there to build a shrine to the Platinum Dragon and pray for nine days. Hearing this, the brothers took their families and wandered the land until each found the sign of which his father had spoken. Upon the ground in the hills that border the central Arkoshian desert, Shash the older brother found a silver coin lying among the tall grasses and did as his father commanded. After nine days of prayer, a mighty silver dragoness appeared and called Shash by name telling him he had completed his father’s wishes and that this site was to be a mighty city in the future. For years after this, the site became a popular place of pilgrimage and over the years, many settled here causing the city to grow.

Architecture
The architecture of the Silver City favors the legends of old. Many of the buildings have huge columns and tall balconies that are built so that they give breathtaking views of the outlying hilly terrain. In each temple or civic building, massive carvings slither around the entirety of each column, depicting scenes of myths and legends.

Culture
The cultures of the two twin cities are nearly identical. No other cities in the empire share such a bond as the Gold and Silver Cities. Inhabitants of each consider themselves not as a citizen of a specific city but rather and children of both cities. Because of this, it is common for wealthier Dragonborn to have houses in each city and the road between Jaerx Shash and Jaerx Ver’oss is the most used road in the empire.

Current Events
Lately, the kobold population of the Gold City has begin to grow at a much larger rate that of the Silver City and this is beginning to cause a divergence of the two. Those of the Silver City are trapped in the past, still holding the traditional notions of the class system in their hearts whereas those of the Gold City are beginning to change with the changing times.

Local Color
Population: 80,000 Dragonborn, 2,000 kobold

Ruling Clan: The Servants of Radiance

District: Temple District, King’s District, Merchant’s District, Halls of Antiquity, Kobold slums, Garrison Quarter

Taverns: The Silver Coin, Saint’s Refuge, The Kobold Lover, The Iron Bar