Asanatown

Asanatown

(City)

World

Burning Archipelago (Sun)

Population

5,292

Demographics

83% lashunta, 5% human, 4% android, 3% ysoki, 2% half-elf, 3% other

Government

Elected council

Alignment

Neutral

Leader

Ada Belel

Source: Fire Starters, pg(s). 39

Asanatown is a bubble-city in the Burning Archipelago that connects the bubbles of Dawnshore and Corona and is populated predominantly by lashuntas. They pretend to be a typical ethnic enclave and have enough local industry to support that impression, but their focus is clearly on something else, as their large weapons stockpiles indicate. Asanatown is also home to the Church of the Burning Mother, a lashunta Sarenite sect separate from the Radiant Cathedral in Dawnshore.

History

Few lashuntas emigrated to the Burning Archipelago following its discovery, but those who did settled in the bubble of Stellacuna to study or teach at Solar University. In 288 AG, a year after the end of the lashunta-formian war on Castrovel, a large number of discharged lashunta soldiers chose to put their old skills to use on frontiers like the Sun. General Malonio Kam, a taciturn, practical leader, was chosen to be their spokesman.

In 296 AR, the lashuntas in the Burning Archipelago all started to telepathically sense an unknown threat that no one else could perceive. Their warnings were unheeded by the other residents of the Archipelago, including the equally-telepathic shirrens. Lashunta frustration continued to grow, even leading to riots at Solar University. Although no one died, many were injured, and popular opinion turned against the lashuntas.

As the lashuntas in the Burning Archipelago adopted a paranoid mentality and began to be seen as disruptors, Malonio Kam led them to establish their own ethnic enclave. The plan was approved by the Archipelago Senate, and with the help of the Sarenite priestess Ada Belel, Kam christened a then-unsettled bubble-city Asanatown, and founded the secular government while Ada Belel consecrated the Church of the Burning Mother; the corporations that previously had claims and interests in that bubble were instead offered lucrative contracts on Castrovel.

Inhabitants

The lashuntas of Asanatown are a moody, paranoid, and isolationist bunch and their bubble-city looks and feels more like a military base. Seemingly innocuous decisions or initiatives made by one of the governments or corporations in other parts of the Burning Archipelago set off a flurry of activity behind closed doors in Asanatown. After a series of seemingly random accidents, the other initiative is abandoned soon thereafter. These occurences have been increasing in frequently as of late, leading to increasing tensions between Asanatown and the other power groups in the Archipelago.