Dewa Prefecture

Dewa Prefecture is an inland administrative region of the western Blessed Isle, southeast of the Ayreon Mountains. Bisected by a well-maintained road dating from the Shogunate era which links the Eye of Creation in Ayreon Prefecture to the Broad and Twisting Tail of the Dragon that travels from Eagle's Launch to Lord's Crossing, and with its capital on the banks of a tributary flowing into the large Yodo River and on to Eagle Prefecture, Dewa serves as a regional transport hub. In addition to trade transiting through, Dewa’s economy is devoted primarily to the cultivation of Glutinous Rice and red Safflower, the latter of which is sought for dyemaking by the Isle’s silk mills.

The Starfall patrician clan has been working to slowly increase their influence over the prefecture for many decades, and in recent years the Talon League of metalworkers has made inroads to dominate the local smithing market and the transport connections in Dewa city. However, full dominance is difficult to achieve due to the general prosperity of the safflower farmers and connections between local merchant and outside patricians, the Sesus-aligned clans of Eagle’s Launch and the Tepet-aligned clans of Lords’ Crossing.

Prefect: Carpenter Oscillation

Notable Locations

Dewa City: The prefectural capital at Dewa is a small city, home to the local offices of the Thousand Scales, where the prefecture’s main road passes alongside a river port for barges carrying cargo to the Yodo River. The market at Dewa is large and busy: safflower, rice, and smithed tools are all bought and sold here in quantity, sellers brining the goods by land from Dewa and surrounding prefectures, buyers carting them away west by river or east by caravan. The city governor is Starfall Quickening.

Three Lantern Temple: An Immaculate monastery in Dewa, Three Lantern Temple is named for the three massive braziers that burn from the towers rising where it’s walls meet to enclose its triangular grounds. It is a temple primarily to the Immaculate Dragon Hesiesh, and it is claimed that the fire which originally lit its torches came from the halo of the Immaculate of Fire himself, the monks carefully tending the flames through the centuries while meditating towards enlightenment.