Prontera

The Capital of Midgard
Finally, we come to the capital of Midgard, Prontera itself. Home to numerous nobles and the grand palace itself, Prontera is the largest and one of the oldest cities in the kingdom. With its central location, Prontera has always been Midgard's capital, and the castle today is still the same building from centuries before.

With the death of the royal family, Prontera has become the seat of velare power outside of the shadow plane itself. Highborn velare occupy the noble districts, alongside mortals making deals similar to those in cities such as Aldebaran, and the city retains an air of civilized society. Like most major cities, Prontera has changed much in the past 500 years. Streetlights now line the dusky cobblestone roads, and the richest velare even manage motorized transport, to a degree. Running water and other amenities are commonplace, as well.

In the northeast of Prontera, there is an expansive cathedral, one of the few velare-run facilities that the public is free to come and go to at their leisure. Where once the Church of the Mother stood, there is now a museum of exactly how the Velare were able to take over the world of Rune. The msueum contains scale models of the Dark Towers, self-aggrandizing tales of Verrine and Ereshkigal's sundering of the plane, and most notably, the only information on Radiants permitted by the Empire.

A small corner room is dedicated to explaining the sheer incompetence of the last generation of Radiants. The stories told therein are so ridiculous that they can only be thought of as propaganda, characterizing their nameless leader as so weak-willed that he spent the last months of his life attempting to turn an Archdemon to the side of good, and another as a self-absorbed playboy with more focus on his ego than doing good for the world.