Atlas history
What is known
Nurleth accumulated influence by preserving river and border agreements. Rival courts now use different readings of the same records to support incompatible claims.
City or settlement
Nurleth
A treaty city on the northern approaches to Vaar-Kashai.
The treaty city
Nurleth grew on Vaar-Kashai's northern approaches, where river law meets overland border custom. Its archive houses preserve toll agreements, flood obligations and safe-passage guarantees. Foreign envoys often arrive here before travelling deeper into the League.
Government by remembered wording
Nurleth's jurists hold influence because small differences in an old agreement can move a boundary or change a season's water allocation. Rival courts fund competing translations, and public readings can draw crowds. A forged seal is treated as an attack on the city itself.
The danger in the archive
Myak infiltration is more likely to target a clerk or conservator than a soldier. Altered maps, missing annexes and deliberately mistranslated river names could open routes to an Essan site while appearing to be routine legal confusion. The archive guard therefore includes historians as well as armed wardens.