Amprela

Amprela is the foremost town of the northeastern Empire. Watchmen stand atop its towers, looking out for beacons from the frontier fortresses to the north and east that might signal the approach of enemies. Horse archers recruited from the rough Eleftheroi freemen drink in the barracks, waiting for the order to ride out against Khuzait steppe-riders, Sturgian woodsmen or Nord longships coming down the Caracasos River, while the cataphracts drill in the courtyard of the keep and ensure their horses are in fighting trim should the archon need to assemble an army to deal with any larger threat.