Nilcestumir

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The pleasant hills and valleys of Alinor have been carved and sculpted over millennia by the careful craft of farmers, gardeners, and moravonds into the work of art that is Nilcestumir. The entire region is said to be one singular garden, and where city ends and wilderness begins is often difficult to tell, as pristinely maintained roads, farmsteads, shrines, serries, and estates emanate out from settlements to cross the entire region. Pristinely manicured groves of fragrant laurels, cherry, parasol, and plum trees give pleasant shade to lotus ponds, oleander shrubs, and intricately-patterned flower fields. Seashells and coast-corals decorate the pristine white-sand beaches where the fishing villages of Chrysalir and Ilmarivil can be found. Inland, many of the settlements are farming estates, such as Ilis, Aulme and Lunisquaret, owned by minor lords in good favor or distant blood relation with Clan Avauriel. A few smaller estates are even rented to or outright bought by ephem in recent years, a sure sign of the times (and much to the embarrassment of their neighbors). The terraced style of gardening and farming practiced by the Altmer and Nibeneans is thought to have originated here in the farmsteads of Nilcestumir, where pyul-taro, silche, and many other crops are grown. Among the larger settlements of Nilcestumir are Rellenthil, a city famous for its contributions to Altmeri performance art, Marnor, a market city located on the land-route to Sunhold, Nilmora, a town on the Thoyala river, and the peaceful estate towns of Queniscet and Tamila. On a tributary of the Oleander River, the Cyrodiilic colony of Riverwatch has grown into a small city, not far from where the Numidium took its last steps on Summerset before the surrender, and the legionnaires of Fort Arctus patrol the northern edge of the Titan’s Wake. On Nilstern Island, the young, flourishing port city of Marryn overlooks the ruins of the old Wasten Coridale, a city older even than Alinor, which was sacked in a battle against the vile Sload while Alinor’s military was still recovering from the devastation of the Tiber Wars. Though the original gardeners have been wiped out, and the rest of the city is abandoned, a clan from Nilmora still tends to the famous Hanging Gardens shrine.