Treth

Treth is a city on the north-western coast of High Rock. It is within the dominion of the Archduchy of Glorinel, resting on its northernmost promontory. Whilst the city is the realm’s largest and most populous settlement [?], it is not its capital.

Unlike the ancient City of Glorinel, Treth does not predate the fall of the Direnni Hegemony. It therefore lacks the capital’s distinctive Elven architecture. Treth has the ‘austere grandeur’ of a quintessential Breton city. Its districts are precariously organised, within which the brick-built townhouses of its wealthy citizens juxtapose the wooden hovels of its poor.

Treth is one of the principal mercantile hubs of north-western Tamriel, although it pales in size and significance to the neighbouring Daggerfall. In congruence with the rest of the archduchy, the city’s wealth flows from Glorinel’s abundant gold reserves. Gold from the mines beneath the City of Glorinel is transported along the Gold Road to Treth by the wagonload, from whence it is shipped across the Empire.

The city, though in the domain of the Archduke of Glorinel, enjoys such liberty and autonomy rarely seen elsewhere. Its government might rightly be described as a republic. The burghers of Treth elect a Grand Mayor, who rules the city and its hinterlands (an area known as the Liberty of Treth) with little or no reference to its archducal overlord.

Such freedoms are not bought cheaply. The taxes, tolls and other tributes that the Archduke exacts from the city are exorbitant. History, it seems in Treth, is doomed to repeat itself. The withholding of its liege’s due is met with the revocation of the city’s cherished privileges; such privileges are only restored by the re-imposition of the Archduke’s exactions. Over the centuries Treth has revolted against its overlord on several occasions. The city has never successfully thrown off the yoke of Glorinel.

A significant landmark in the city is the Scholarium, a school of magic administered by the Magisterium of Glorinel.