Amprela

Amprela is the foremost town of the far northeast of the Empire. Watchmen stand atop its towers, looking out for beacons from the frontier fortresses to the north, east and west that might signal the approach of raiders. Horse archers recruited from the rough Eleftheroi freemen drink in the barracks, waiting for the order to ride out against horsemen from the steppe. Cataphracts sally through its gates to vie with the princes of Sturgia for control of the trade crossing the nearby network of lakes known as the Iltan portages.