Sunrise Island & the town of Dawn

LOCATION: Far to the southeast of the mainland and Pirate Archipelagos on the edge of the Mists.

AFFILIATION:  None 

POPULATION: Approximately 1000, the majority of which are magically active 

RACIAL MIX:  The majority of citizens here are human and Fae but there are small numbers of all races.

ECONOMY: Excellent; Dawn has nearly unlimited magical provided resources at its disposal because of the Dawn School, the highly magically active population and the magically charged environment of the island itself. 

STRENGTH: A small military unit maintains order and monitors the border of the town from the frequent “visits” by the creatures brought in by the Mists.  The unit is made up of magically armed mundane citizens and students from the school.  Because of the wide variety of “things” the unit has seen very little shakes them.

LEADERSHIP: Headmaster Killian Galforth (also Head of the Dawn School)

NOTES: Much like Mindoth's Tower Sunrise Island (specifically the town of Dawn) owes its existence to a volcano.  The volcano, rumored to be the former home of an ancient dragon, is extinct and has been magically altered to work with a reverse chimney effect.  The volcano pulls in cool air from the upper atmosphere and blows it down and across Dawn.  This has two effects: 1) it keeps the town located in tropics at a constant, comfortable temperature and 2) it keeps the Mist from rolling in over the town.

If not for the wind created by the volcano when the Sunrise Island is enveloped by fluctuations in the Mist the citizens would be affected by the chaotic magical effects of the Mist.  When the Mist does come to the island the citizens never know what it’s going to bring with it.  Sometimes creatures long thought extinct show up or surrounding vegetation is complete different when the Mist leaves.  Typically the island is covered in the Mist around 10 days a month.  Because of the Mists and the “chaotic” effect is has on the island the people of the nearby Pirate Archipelagos avoid the “cursed island” and its “crazy sorcerers”.

Race isn’t as important here as it is in other cultures but magical aptitude is.  One thing to note is practitioners of Necromancy and Thaumaturgy are not welcome and anyone found practicing these ways of magic are forced to leave.  Adepts, druids and priests are frowned upon but welcome.  

Life in the town is centered around the Dawn School.  For more information on the Dawn School see it’s individual entry.