Gonryun

City in the Clouds
Gonryun lies on the southern coast of the Empire's mainland, though one will find only a small port outpost housed there. Thanks to immense streams of magic within the area, similar to the gorge near Juno, islands of rock have lifted thousands of feet in the air, forming a cluster that has become the city of Gonryun.

Entered via a bridge from the mainland created through smaller floating islands, the city is made up of a ring of smaller stones surrounding a much larger, city-sized chunk of land making up the vast majority of the city. Due to its location quite a distance from the rest of the continent, Gonryun has always been a bit of an "outcast" city, though certainly not to the extent of Amatsu.

It was absorbed into the Eastern Empire when the Empress deemed the city a useful location for a scouting post, naturally able to see for an immense distance from Gonryun's great height. Still, despite its strategic location and use, it is not a terribly military-minded city.

Like Ayothaya, it is a mostly laid-back land, with almost no dangers to worry about whatsoever. There are small communities of harpies nesting in the underside of the islands, but for the most part they prey on the animals on the mainland, leaving the citizens of Gonryun to live their lives in peace.

Culturally, Gonryun is widely regarded as the home of the first fireworks, which have made their way around the Empire in modern times. Currently they do not play a terribly large part in the city, though there are displays used for a few summer festivals.

Still, most attendees of any festivals are often locals anyway. Gonryun, while pretty and unique, is not an exceptionally popular tourist destination, due to the distant location as well as the fairly dangerous lands one must pass through to reach the skybridge.