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===Athíens:===

By far the most populous of all the city-states, Athíens is first visible from miles away because of their great lighthouse (which also serves as a potent beam weapon like the Harlan Tower but this is kept a secret) as a sprawling mass of spires, balconies, airships flying around and weapons being tested, overall a shockingly vast scene. In fact by this point the city has reached such size and age it could be reasonably be called a megacity, a term coined by a scholar from one of the many universities dotting the realm. While the size may be impressive Athíens itself it famous for being the most pious of all the city-states, setting up a great hill filled with temples to every god on the Soukan pantheon be it major or minor. These shrines serve great use outside of prayer as well for Cornithus often sends massive weapons shipments over which are brought inside a temple and blessed with a trait belonging to the god, granting in most cases enough strength to blow an iron beast of Yr in half. Typically each blessed artillery piece has one or two blessings but in some rare cases a weapon can rise to such notoriety and age that it gains the blessings of all the gods on temple hill receiving the title "everchosen", the most recent of which being an ashtongue of great renown. These weapons are then interred in shrines to be brought out in times of great need. Some famous regiments from these parts include the Fonias-Pattern Repeater Crossbowman who use their crossbows to fire a volley bolts that can pierce a mans heart in a single shot and the Ashtongues, a recent invention consisting of a drake shaped mouth letting loose a stream of Soukan fire. This fire is said to be able to burn even under a river with a current going through and has been mounted to the prows of ships allowing them to burn through almost everything in front of them alongside a newly formed regiment using smaller versions as some sort of "flamethrower" as they call it.