Zhirveth's Roost
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Zhirveth's Roost is the capital of Velkar Spires, clinging to a knife-edged saddle where five wind-bridges converge. Its outer buttresses bristle with the Gale-Fanes, shrines of storm-glass whose bells toll only at Cyressel's second nightly arc, warning sky-pilots of rogue squalls rising off the Bangrave Sea. Each toll is considered a vow, and no pilot dares sail without heeding it.
Toward the city's heart, the hanging Aerium Foundries sway from chain-cranes above an abyss, where Earthkin smiths pour molten ore into crucibles and cast them into the gale, letting resonance winds shape and cool the alloy into windsteel. Between cloisters and ringing gantries sprawls the Roost Bazaar, a market suspended in perpetual drafts where fabric stalls whip like banners and traders barter sky-feather cloth, violet thunder-opals, and cloud-fleece from mesa goats.
In Zhirveth's Roost, every deal is weighed by the wind, every oath bound to storm and stone. The city serves as both spiritual and economic heart of the Spires, where sky-clans gather to declare laws in lightning-lit assemblies and caravans launch across wind-bridges and storm-paths to the rest of Velthuryn.
