Nex Aeterna

Nex Aeterna

Type	City
Government	Democratic Oligarchy
Location	Breme
Inhabiting Race	Intelligent Undead

Nex Aeterna is a city inhabited and ruled by the undead nestled in the isolated frozen mountains of Breme.

About

Nex Aeterna is a city of the dead, filled with ancient tombs, mausoleums, graveyards, and cold crypts. But in many ways it is like your normal city, with people going about their days managing their stores, trading goods, and engaging in many other social activities. The only major difference is that these people are skeletons, zombies, wrights, wraiths, vampires, and more.

Unlike in most other places in the realm, Necromancy in Nex Aeterna is encouraged, with undead being seen as the natural next step to ones life cycle. The city's official policy is that necromancy in the cases of raising a corpse to unlife is must be a voluntary procedure, but many of the higher up intelligent undead often overlook this rule to pursue their own goals.

The city is ruled by an elected Mortarch, voted in by the people of Nex Aeterna and approved by the Unliving College, a council of the city's oldest and most powerful undead, including liches, vampire barons, mummy lords, and death knights. The Mortarch shares equal political control of the city with the Unliving College, managing the city's infrastructure and diplomatic relations, while relying on the vast power held by the members of the Unliving Collage.

History

Nex Aeterna was founded in 823 BR by idealistic undead who sought to create a safe haven for their kind. It is unknown if the lands where Nex Aeterna resides was already inhabited by mortals. Nearby kingdoms claim that Nex Aeterna used to be its own independent city before the undead took it for themselves, but these claims have never been proven. These original undead used their great combined powers to raise the city from the stones of the mountains of Breme, having chosen the location due to being easily defendable from outside invaders, and for the colds natural preservation of rotting flesh.

Many of these original undead would go onto form the Unliving College, with the one who gathered them all together, the realm traveling necromancer, Rook Gravesfield, becoming the first Mortarch of Nex Aeterna.

Over the course of its history, Nex Aeterna would come into conflict with its neighbors who sought to stop out the undead in their homeland as well as other powerful undead factions who did not hold Nex Aeterna's same ideals. One of these factions included the Seventh Sigil, an order of powerful undead who sought to use their magic to exert their influence upon the realm. Their relationship with the city and Unliving Council was especially tense, as the undead from both sides had once all run in the same circles before splitting apart.