WORLD SHARD LOCATION: Clasped in the stone hands of a tomb's effigy, that looks like a young woman in a peaceful sleep...
DREAMER SHARD LOCATION: Aspected as an Exalt, this Shard is found in the city's guard armoury, inside a weapon's maintenance bag alongside the whetstones.
A BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Zanado is a great sprawling desert city that's surrounded by great, towering mountain ranges where the ancient Nabateans (dragon people) lived in Fodlan. The city's buildings are mostly ziggurats, joined by multi-layered stone bridges and wide streets, and live in the shadow of the central temple that's home to the 'Goddess' that rules over the land...
The denizens all seem to have varying shades of green hair and pointed ears, and they'll stare curiously at those who don't blend in with them, though they're very polite if spoken to. There's also a feeling of constantly being watched too, but that's probably nothing...
WHAT TO DO IN THIS WORLD:
✶ Explore the marketplace! Despite its desert environs, there're lots of fresh fruit and vegetables, as well as meat, that can be found here which... aren't in season nor should be possible to grow in this desert. Trinkets ranging from tourist trappy jewellery to arcane are hawked as well, and everything is suspiciously cheap...
✶ Visit the central temple! With how huge and towering it is, it has to be important, right? Right. Well, attempting to enter will have you firmly rebuffed at the entrance by serious green-haired guards, but you can try to use your stealth to wiggle in. If you succeed, you'll find that the temple is strangely empty, yet the deeper you go, the more guards there are, and if you're spotted, well... those guards can turn into very angry dragons who are very ferocious in guarding whatever it is that lays in the heart of this temple... good luck!
✶ Speaking of dragons, this city also has wyverns acting as their go-to mounts aside from camels! For those who have always wanted to pet a wyvern, or fly one, here's your chance! There's a green-haired wyvern tamer that's offering free rides to those interested!
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We actually do have a picture of Zanado! Just a single scene though. So for more visual ref, here it is:
Inside the central temple, one of the most eye-catching things is this giant mural painted in the great hall before you get deeper inside:
As for the dragon guards, they're smaller versions of these (so they can fit inside the admittedly large hallways and fight comfortably):
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WORLD SHARD LOCATION: Clasped in the stone hands of a tomb's effigy, that looks like a young woman in a peaceful sleep...
DREAMER SHARD LOCATION: Aspected as an Exalt, this Shard is found in the city's guard armoury, inside a weapon's maintenance bag alongside the whetstones.
A BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Zanado is a great sprawling desert city that's surrounded by great, towering mountain ranges where the ancient Nabateans (dragon people) lived in Fodlan. The city's buildings are mostly ziggurats, joined by multi-layered stone bridges and wide streets, and live in the shadow of the central temple that's home to the 'Goddess' that rules over the land...
The denizens all seem to have varying shades of green hair and pointed ears, and they'll stare curiously at those who don't blend in with them, though they're very polite if spoken to. There's also a feeling of constantly being watched too, but that's probably nothing...
WHAT TO DO IN THIS WORLD:
✶ Explore the marketplace! Despite its desert environs, there're lots of fresh fruit and vegetables, as well as meat, that can be found here which... aren't in season nor should be possible to grow in this desert. Trinkets ranging from tourist trappy jewellery to arcane are hawked as well, and everything is suspiciously cheap...
✶ Visit the central temple! With how huge and towering it is, it has to be important, right? Right. Well, attempting to enter will have you firmly rebuffed at the entrance by serious green-haired guards, but you can try to use your stealth to wiggle in. If you succeed, you'll find that the temple is strangely empty, yet the deeper you go, the more guards there are, and if you're spotted, well... those guards can turn into very angry dragons who are very ferocious in guarding whatever it is that lays in the heart of this temple... good luck!
✶ Speaking of dragons, this city also has wyverns acting as their go-to mounts aside from camels! For those who have always wanted to pet a wyvern, or fly one, here's your chance! There's a green-haired wyvern tamer that's offering free rides to those interested!
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