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The Cursed Blue Rose
A lake in the temperate desert is not scenery; it is capital. Arodin grew on the shore of one, in the dry middle of the continent, and the water is the settlement's whole living. Raised in the fourth wave of expansion under the name Arolindos, it remained small, because a lakeside in that country is defined less by how much it can grow than by how much it must guard. Fishing, watering and the sale of what is drawn off support the place, and what the shore cannot supply is bought from those who come to drink. Water here is a transaction long before it is a kindness.
The Arodine are Lohanar, few in number and precise about access, since a shoreline shared badly is a shoreline fought over. The Flammund rule the settlement, and Arodin stands within the Creed. Its religion is the Creed's as well — the Infernal Creed, a faith of command and submission, which in a place holding what everyone else needs is less a doctrine than a description.