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==The City League==
[[File:CityLeague.png|thumb|right|350px|The City League in all of its glory]]
Originally, the City League began as a small trading hub - a town that grew where several major trading routes, one of them a river, intersected. And it just grew, and grew. Subsidiary towns and villages formed on its borders, and the City survived so long that it spread out and subsumed them, becoming in effect a city built out of smaller cities. Whilst from the exterior the League appears to be a singular city, it still thinks of itself as a ''collection'' of cities, hence the name and the incredibly byzantine bureaucracy that sprang up, as each individual community insisted on maintaining its individual identity even as it was integrated into the greater social organism.

To this day, even the denizens of the League call it simply "The League".

The rulers of the City League is ''The Katar'', the descendant of the original Clerk-at-Arms who organized the well-being and protection of the various merchant guilds of the original city. The Katars (the shorthand nickname; their formal title is "Knight Puissant, Clerk-at-Arms, First Servant of the League of Cities") rule from ''The Punctilio''; the stupendous palace that is the seat of their kind. Their power is aided by a vizier and court, and enacted by the ubiquitous Knights Orcular, who watch, report and punish on behalf of the sprawling bureaucracy that sustains the league.

Notable locations of the League include:
* Punctilio, the courtly centre.
* The Hill, the community surrounding Punctilio.
* The Capitol, seat of the largest library in this part of the world.
* The Temple of Ten Thousand Ravens, where the Redemptors administer city justice.
* Docklands, the largest and most notable port.
* The Borough, home to one of the League's largest markets.
* The New City, which is now centuries old and whose wide avenues are choked with the detritus of periodic riot.
* The Communities, the southern reaches and home to much of the League's population.