Vostral

Vostral is one of the fifteen plane shifted capitals to escape The Downfall.

Shares the name with the human empire from eight thousand years ago.

History
Current form is 488 years old, previously separate smaller kingdoms until king Solnerad conquered and united them under one banner in 315 BD. Center of the human alliance and the seat of the allied council for obvious historical reasons.

Geography
The city of Vostral is situated at the estuary of the Red river where it flows into what used to be the gulf of Aegera. There at the river delta the flow splits into many separate channels leaving dozens of islands of varying size between them. The islands are mostly bedrock as the wind and the river have stripped them clean of loose soil.

The city is most easily navigated by locating the royal palace which rises above the skyline at the center of the island group on an island called the Scepter. Generally the islands are divided into three main groups.

The Crown: the three long largest islands surrounding the Scepter, which rises far above the rest of the city (340 feet above water). On the Crown are located some of the wealthiest of the city's people, merchants and nobles alike. On the Scepter itself is the royal palace, the grand cathedral and other notable historical buildings.

Since the city was not built for a population this large it has spread considerably along the western coastline, with the slums being divided from the rest of the city by a branch of the Red river. Between the slums and the Crown is the craftsmen's quarter on a larger island, with bridges leading between the Crown and the slums. Between the eastern side of the Scepter and the western shore of the Crown is the Herald isle which has the Royal mage academy of Vostral. Several smaller islands dot the river, most located near the eastern side of the delta. Further to the east on the larger continuous landmass are the farmlands with only the immediate coastline being urban areas.

The gateway to and from the demiplane is four miles from the coast on a lonely island called the Lantern, called so because of the large lighthouse of the same name being there.