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tal’Dorei CampaiGn GuiDe

Run by Headmaster Thurmond Adlam, the Lyceum standing military soldiers of the city. Men and women
acts as both a training facility for talented magic prac- seeking to join the Arms of Emon train within the Walls
titioners, and a formidable center for all forms of arcane of Tribute, referred to wryly by recruits as the Quarry,
research and study. Though its walls were shattered and where they are given the necessary skill at combat, arms,
its libraries crushed during the invasion of the Chroma and law to keep the city safe. Military recruits are instead
Conclave, the Erudite Quarter has thankfully been mostly trained within the House of Discipline, a grueling camp
reconstructed thanks to the efforts of the Lyceum’s staff that readies entrants for the dangers of warfare. While
and students. The district’s greatest loss was the hundreds many small stockades are scattered across the districts, the
of thousands of pages torched during Thordak’s reign, largest prison in the city, called the Black Bastille, is kept
destroying centuries of magical, mechanical, and histori- here within the Military District.
cal documents.
The ceMeTery DisTricT
The MiliTary DisTricT
The Cemetery District is a smaller section of the city
The Military District is one of the smaller districts dedicated to interring the deceased who can afford it.
within the city, containing many barracks and instruc- Countless gravestone mark a row of rolling hills sectioned
tional facilities for both the Arms of Emon, and the off by tall, iron fences, with mausoleums of more affluent

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