Adwen (also Old Adwen) is a ruined city of the imperial era, once called Adanos, now being resettled. It is the regional center of trade, authority and healing, and the base to which the company returns: “for important things, to Adwen”.
| Type | City |
| Former name | Adanos |
| Other forms | Atwell, Ciudadanos (disputed) |
| Spanish entry | Adwen |
Description
Adwen lies two or three days from the sanctuary (“depending on the road”), three from where the company last operated. “A small city they call old Adwen”, an imperial city “that fell into ruin and is now being reconstituted”, it has more ruins than whole buildings. Still standing are the Tower of Adwen, the towers of knowledge of an ancient market, the inhabited Libraries, the church of the miracle, and at least one tavern that the Arbol family uses as a sub-seat. It has its own rulers.
Role
- Trade and power. Market and seat of regional power; the company’s point of departure and return; where the League settled after the events of Turostén. The Abbot travels toward it.
- Healing. High-ranking priestesses reside there; serious magical afflictions exceed field clergy: “they need to take you to Adwen”. A priestess from Adwen “will cure the affliction” and was seen “setting up the stall”. A certain Jojanna is linked to what the priestesses give; whether she is that priestess is unclear.
- Sacred defense. Adwen borders the Swamp; when the undead came from it, “the light stopped the dead”.
Conflicting accounts
- Adwen is recorded both as the capital of its region and as its second-largest city.
- The name appears as Adwen, as Atwell, and as Ciudadanos; whether these are one city or two confused ones is unresolved.
Open questions
- Whether “old Adwen”, an old woman living in the Libraries whose presence “shows there is population”, takes her name from the city, and what she is.
- When and by whom Adanos was ruined, and who funds the rebuilding.
- What the towers of knowledge are and how they relate to the Libraries.
- The church’s dedication and the cult behind the priestesses.
- What the market trades, in what coin; the city’s walls, gates and form of government.