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 ==== Central ====
 The oldest and most developed district of Flint is
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 <WRAP relinfoboxtitle>Navras Opera House</WRAP>
-Flint’s oldest surviving building is the Navras Opera House\\
+Flint’s oldest surviving building is the Navras\\
-in the central district. Navras, an eladrin who fled Elfaivar \\
+Opera House in the central district. Navras, an\\
-after the Great Malice, designed the opera house and laid the \\
+eladrin who fled Elfaivar after the Great Malice,\\
-cornerstone with a brick he had brought from his homeland. \\
+designed the opera house and laid the cornerstone\\
-He spent nearly two hundred years personally overseeing its \\
+with a brick he had brought from his homeland.\\
-construction, and was aided by no less than eight Risuri kings. \\
+He spent nearly two hundred years personally\\
-When he completed the building, incongruously huge for what \\
+overseeing its construction, and was aided by\\
-was at the time just a small river fort city, Navras gave the \\
+no less than eight Risuri kings. When he completed\\
-first performance by singing the dirge of Vekesh. As the audience \\
+the building, incongruously huge for what was at\\
-cheered and wept at his performance, he walked off the stage\\
+the time just a small river fort city, Navras gave\\
-and disappeared forever.\\
+the first performance by singing the dirge of\\
-The acoustic design of the performance hall somehow captures\\
+Vekesh. As the audience cheered and wept at his\\
-magical power from song, or from the emotional reactions of\\
+performance, he walked off the stage and\\
-the audience. Impresarios who coordinate performance almost\\
+disappeared forever.\\
-always hire spellcasting bards to harness this energy and\\
+The acoustic design of the performance hall\\
-craft a magic item as a memento of the show. In the three\\
+somehow captures magical power from song,\\
-hundred years since the Navras Opera House opened, most of\\
+or from the emotional reactions of the audience.\\
-these items have found their ways into private collections,\\
+Impresarios who coordinate performance almost\\
-but a rare few have become famous, such as the Hurricane\\
+always hire spellcasting bards to harness this\\
-Violin, which commemorated the Fable of Seaquen and later\\
+energy and craft a magic item as a memento of\\
-banished a sea monster that threatened Flint Harbor in 417 a.o.v.
+the show. In the three hundred years since the\\
+Navras Opera House opened, most of these items\\
+have found their ways into private collections,\\
+but a rare few have become famous, such as the\\
+Hurricane Violin, which commemorated the Fable\\
+of Seaquen and later banished a sea monster\\
+that threatened Flint Harbor in 417 a.o.v.
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+{{:zeitgeist:places:flint_central.jpg?direct&400|}}
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 two-story brick houses, and enjoys easy prosperity as the place most
 visitors to the city stay. The district is also home of some of the oldest mills in Risur, powered by small canals that loop off the main
-river to avoid disrupting water traffic.
+river to avoid disrupting water traffic.\\
 One strange attraction of the district is the Penny Pyre. Originally it was a small blackened pit, where a mage’s accident caused
 copper to burn as easily as wood, but last far longer. When the
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 Nobles hold many family estates here, though one island is owned
 by a man new to his money: Guy Goodson, who swindled his initial
-wealth from a dozen naïve villages, and invested early in Flint’s
+wealth from a dozen naïve villages, and invested early in Flint’s industrial boom. Today he owns dozens of factories in Parity Lake,
+and regularly dines with his noble neighbors, who delight in the
+small steamboat he uses to visit them.\\
+Since technically The Ayres is considered part of North Shore, it
+does not have its own district mayor. In practice, law and govern-
+ment officials never bothers the nobles on their islands unless an
+equally wealthy or powerful individual lodges a complaint.
+===== The Military =====
+The Battalion school of war in the bayous of Pine Island trains
+hundreds of future officers every year, and works in connection
+with various district forts throughout the city, as well as naval bases
+on an island near the mouth of Flint Harbor. Flint still remembers
+a few naval skirmishes that threatened shipping eight years ago,
+and so the military maintains a constant watch for possible threats.
+Normally, though, they will not respond unless a district mayor or
+the city governor himself calls on them.\\
+While few individual soldiers have magical training, the military
+has acquired over the years a wide variety of enchanted weapons
+and defenses. Perhaps foremost among these, every soldier sta-
+tioned in The Nettles district fort is given an amulet to ward them
+against supernatural influence, should they be called upon to face
+a reawakening of the eldritch horrors that reigned over Cauldron
+Hill during the time of the witches.\\
+The local commander of Flint land forces is Colonel Greg Mas-
+terson, while the naval defenses are overseen by Rear Admiral
+Morris Dawkins.