Vel-Shaar
It is the Drow capital of the Silk Throne, connected by silk bridges. Maternal lineage houses control property and temple law.
City identity
It is the Drow capital of the Silk Throne, connected by silk bridges. Maternal lineage houses control property and temple law.
City information
The patterns of the silk bridges indicate political alliances. In recent weeks, a bridge has been producing Ash Weave signs without anyone weaving them.
Location in Avarra
| Field | Record |
|---|---|
| Layer | Hollow Countries |
| Regional threshold | The broad cavern roof above the deep fungus forests |
| Physical site | Silk bridges and stalactite terraces connecting the chasm voids |
| Access | House-controlled bridge crossings, fungus lifts, and restricted surface rifts |
| Nearby ties | The Silk Throne’s major maternal houses, Copper Chimney airways, and deep trade stations |
Vel-Shaar’s “street” is a bridge: every silk pattern announces which house protects whom, who owes what, or who is preparing for war. Changing a bridge’s pattern is not graffiti but a change to the law of thousands walking across it.
The woven capital
Main Pendulum holds the maternal houses’ temples and courts, Bridge Market surface goods, and Ash Weave the narrow terraces of worker weavers and exiles. Houses control property and worship together; bridge wardens therefore act as customs officers, mediators, and soldiers.
A bridge forming Ash Weave marks without any weaver unsettles the entire order. If the signs are genuine, a house is secretly forging an alliance; if not, the cavern itself is rewriting city law.
Table tensions
- A bridge pattern belongs to a maternal house destroyed years ago.
- Each ride on a fungus lift erases one passenger’s name from the silk.
- A surface caravan entering Bridge Market unknowingly declares war by carrying the wrong house’s goods.