Free city

Free cities are urban areas nominally under some degree of self rule, set aside from the feudal system of demesnes that governs the countryside and agricultural lands. They are the cultural centers of Alassia, where merchants and artisans ply their trades and people live unbeholden to any particular lord and untethered to the land. The nearby nobility often wield great power within the cities due to their monetary and military might, but are not its unquestioned rulers.

Free cities each have their own organizational principles and means of government, but in each there is some balance of power between the professional societies and guilds, merchants, wealthy or respected citizens, the local nobility, and sometimes even a truly democratic, republican element.

Free Cities

 * Grimshaw
 * Oakmont
 * Kervale
 * Yazagos
 * Enantius
 * Padona