Lantern

Lantern is an affluent mistad alienage located within Maurdregg's Fall. The community's name comes from the glowing calcite growing off the bones of the ancient wyrm in which the neighborhood has developed and for which the city takes its name.

History
While now an upper class, education driven community, Lantern was first developed as an alienage where vagrant elves were left to live. Being within the boneyard of Maurdreggs fallen children, the land wasn't desirable for human settlers and traders. This area was relegated to the elves, seen as barely more than savage hunters by many early humans.

The area proved invaluable for early arcane development, however, and those early mistad proficient in magic use and lore were able to teach interested human scholars with what remained of the dragons. This eventually led to the establishment of the Siperra School of the Arcane; today it is known as Siperra University, the crown jewel in the Fall's crown of highly lauded and specialized schools and universities, including the Almerian Thaumaturgy Guild's own transmutation-specialist school Mutamorne. All these schools are famously chaired by a large number of mistad, most of whom call Lantern home.

Lantern is considered the second largest mistad enclave in Anorien, falling behind Sonorie's Sound in Valdurin by several thousand bodies, but outpacing it by far in terms of average wealth. While it is not exclusively stated to be an elvish community, the number of non-elves living within Lantern has never broken into triple digits.