This city is a common held city, it's laws written by a council containing one of each of the 12 races.

Sero is a "Free" zone where all races can be stationed. It is the Capital of all of Svatura, and is a rather large city with a population to match. There is housing, inns, taverns, bars, and a very expansive market place where various merchants of any race can sell their goods. The market is a very good place to reach customers one normally would not get to see in their own regions. While the Ahi are traveling merchants and usually pass through other regions (And are of the alignment chaotic neutral) with minimal harm, there are animosities between certain races that have never quite gone away.

Here, in Sero, while the stigmas associated with some of the races do stick, there is a strict 'no blood drawn' policy enforced by a squad of three hundred no-nonsense Rikono.

Major areas of Sero:
There are several major 'areas' of Sero that will be listed below.

Sign of the Boar: - A popular tavern just outside of the market Bazaar. It's owned by a very well liked widow named Hadda, a Poshum, who brews her own alcohol and is pretty renowned through the thirty provinces. The Boar has been in operation for the last twenty years and is run by Hadda and her daughter and son in law (who is a Rikono).

The Bazaar - The Bazaar takes up a good portion of the town and is very colorful. Here you can find anything and everything. People travel far and wide to buy and sell their goods. Craftsman have stalls peddling their wares, farmers sell their stock and crops, and various cooks have set up shop marketing their home cooked pies, meats, and a multitude of other goodies.

Like any Bazaar, we have rogues, thieves and vagabonds that populate the area looking to pinch pennies. Many of these are children (usually orphans) who live in different parts of the city without homes. Whether they are orphans who decided the orphanage is not for them, or simply runaways who decided they didn't like their parents point of view.

Appletree's Odds and Ends: - An older version of a pawn shop. Owned by "Appletree" (nobody knows his real name), a Nivasi that's more crazy than anything else, this shop holds things that you may not find anywhere else. Appletree deals with rares and odd bits that have no use, as well as selling things that are just on the other side of legal (if you have the money to make him talk).

The entire room's damp, and it smells of water. Just the way he likes it, with very little light. It's just enough to see, just enough to not run into the wall and break your nose. Hanging from the ceiling are other fish skeletons and other baubles of gold and gemstones. Deadly and sharp swords and other weaponry line the walls and there are rows and rows of odds and ends that hold no purpose at all. There's a display table in the corner that holds precious gems, river rocks, dried sea weed - basically anything you would find in the water that one could carry away from it. There is even a small glass bowl with fish, though one seems to be dead.

The desk where he conducts his business is made of fish bones - the frame of it appearing to be the rib cage of a giant sea mammal of sorts, topped with a solid sheet of flat bone as a desk surface. Not a very inviting place.

Hangman's Well - Named after a legend of a Gypsy who was hung (For any number of reasons, the 'tale' has morphed so many times over the years everyone has their own version and the true reason has been forgotten) and cursed the well. There's a legend that if you appease the spirit of the fallen Celestial, a boon (or wish) will be granted to you. Seventy years after the incident, people can still be seen throwing coin into the well. This 'landmark' sits in Town Square. The well itself is completely devoid of water, and has been claimed by Appletree as his source of water.

The Orphanage: Run by an old, motherly, and very talkative Edre named Tam, the Orphanage is home for Svatura's children who have been abandoned or have no parents to speak of. It's home to twenty at a time, though Tam certainly wishes she could house more, there simply isn't enough room.