Tamriel:Gnisis

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Gnisis is about as close to a big city as you'll find in Vvardenfell's north-western corner, and offers many of the comforts of home for city-dwellers on their first trip into the wild world. The town is primarily built around a large eggmine, with the various support buildings arrayed on the small plain below them. There is a Tribunal Temple, home of the Ash Mask of Vivec, and one of the stops on the Pilgrimages of the Seven Graces. Oddly enough, there is a tiny Imperial fort as well, the northernmost in all of Vvardenfell. Little more than a wall built into a steep hillside, Fort Darius houses an Imperial Cult altar, Legion smith and troop barracks, but most of the actual fort function takes place either in the town tavern, or in a neighboring Redoran building rented by the Imperial Legion. Both Imperial Cult and Legion in this place are largely staffed by Orcs, although Commander Darius is Imperial and the town population is mainly Dunmer. But underneath all of that is the Talos Cult, a cult devoted to the emplacement of a stronger Emperor on the Imperial Throne.