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tal’dorei campaign guide
religionS: Majority: Archeart,
Wildmother, Moonweaver.
Minority: Matron of Ravens,
Knowing Mistress, Stormlord,
Cloaked Serpent
importS: Precious gems, grain, gold
exportS: Lumber, Elvish arms and
goods, jewelry, exotic meat and
vegetables, enchantments

Shifting Keep their home, though many spend their time moon flanked by two trees over a deep cerulean stone.
wandering the Expanse, vigilant and ever curious what These enchanted stones act as an anchor to the Feywild
fools would dare trifle with the might of Syngorn. where Syngorn’s founders once recovered, allowing the
city itself to displace into the Fey realm as a final act of
syngorn preservation.
government
Large City • Population 37,030
The city has been governed since its inception by the High
(91% Elven, 5% Human, 2% Halfling, 2% Other)
Warden of Syngorn, a hereditary monarch who appoints
Founded by the sorceress Yenlara in the wake of the proven individuals to three other offices alongside them
Divergence, Syngorn marked the first major point of elven as the Wardens of Syngorn. Each Warden carries a title
civilization on Tal’Dorei following its calamitous destruc- and net of responsibilities to guide the city into continued
tion. The remnants of the fallen Court of Ullusa fled to safety and prosperity. The Verdant Lord acts as the head
the Feywild for a generation following the end of the of the city guard, though they delegate this responsibility
Age of Arcanum, returning only when Yenlara found the to a Vice Protector when leading the armies of Syngorn to
realm safe to return. These four hundred survivors built a war abroad.
new home, taking inspiration from their temporary home The Guildrunner manages the city’s treasury and over-
among the fey, and formed the foundations of Syngorn. sees commerce within Syngorn’s borders. The Voice of
Nearly a millennium later, Syngorn stands as the proud, Memory is a heralded keeper of history and culture, and
defiant cultural and economic center of elven society on is often seen interacting with the elven people, gathering
new memories for the archives. The High Warden has
the continent.
The massive city is built against the western base of always been of Yenlara’s bloodline, and is responsible
the Stormcrest mountains, and is all but impervious for keeping order within Syngorn and its territories, and
within the Wardens themselves.
to external assault. Syngorn is not only protected by
40-foot-high walls of ivy-covered jade, it is also sur-
rounded by living trees of the Verdant Expanse and society
elf-made beacons of detection that keep constant vigil Rooted in the older cultures of Exandria, Syngorn is
for intruders. Every entrance to the city is warded by a steeped in elven tradition that dates back to before the
series of threshold crests, massive emblems of a crescent Divergence. The arts are lauded and revered, the pursuit of

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