Blue skies

On the surface Sapphire appears barren and abandoned.  There is even less land here than other cities.  Jagged rocks pierce the surface, and huge whirlpools come and go.  The water is extremely clear but dark, making it difficult to see to the rocky bottom.  Sometimes as one is gazing into the depths bight lights blind the watcher.  Some of the larger rocks projecting form the water have caves leading down, deep beneath sea level.


No people appear to live in the territory, but without fail every year, proper taxes and records are brought to the council via representative.  This representative comes from the Traders Guild, and is extremely closed mouthed, never giving any information on the city.  The paper work is always very detailed, but somehow always makes the mystery worse.  Population, marriages, sales, imports, exports, and all other relevant facts are listed, but no one lives there....


The actual population of Sapphire lives in underground caverns made of crystal.  The bright light sometimes blinds sailors is the light bouncing around these crystals.  Even though it looks dark down there, the crystals do a magnificent job of collecting what light does get down there and concentrating it into the caverns, creating a twilight effect.  Coupled with many species of bio-luminescent creatures that have been culminated.  What few trusted traders that are allowed down there would tell you its like swimming through the stars in the sky, if they were inclined to speak about it at all. 


The population are mermaids, if you hadn't figured that out yet.  I have an idea of what they will like like, a cross between the mermaids in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and traditional ones.  If any one has read these books, it will be most like the fish people in Wren's Quest.  Entrances to their caverns are the large sea caves mentioned before and the whirlpools mentioned  above.


Only city-state to have a monarchical form of government.  It is an matriarchal electoral monarchy.  Will be the only area that they visit that have little or no problems with the Stone Man (which is what I have decided to call my baddie.)


The mermaids, along with the unicorns from Green will also receive Jewels when Draca Flys.