Barak-Urbaz
A Solarian Wyvern being harvested in Barak-Urbaz | |
Emblem of Barak-Urbaz | |
Aliases | The Market City[4c] |
Type | Sky-port |
Associated factions | Kharadron Overlords |
Founding | Age of Chaos |
Status | Active |
Location of Barak-Urbaz | |
Mortal Realm | Chamon |
Region | Spiral Crux |
Size | Metropolis[4d] |
Current Ruler(s) | Lord Admiral Solmund[7a] |
Major characters | Varsk Hunniger Duggrun Khrung |
Races | Duardin |
Languages | Kharadrid |
Beliefs | Science over faith and superstition.[4e] |
Delegates on the Geldraad | 1[4a] |
Aether-gold Shares | 25,716,102[4a] |
Governing Body | Admirals Council |
Specialty | Chemistry, sky-fishing and trade.[4c][6a] |
Colours | Pink-purple overalls and green-tinted armour. They wear bodysuits of a rich pink-purple, and metals used in their steel alloys give it a subtle blue-green sheen.[6a][1a] |
Barak-Urbaz, the Market City, is one of the six major sky-ports of the Kharadron Overlords, sailing high in the Realm of Chamon.[1]
Contents
History
In the Age of Sigmar, the fleets of Barak-Urbaz sailed to the Realm of Aqshy to aid the Fyreslayers against the daemonic hordes of Tzeentch who were attacking nine different mountain ranges in order to secure strange crystals.[1]
A fleet is dispatched to clear cults of Slaanesh from the lands surrounding a small kingdom, but when the task is accomplished instead of the gold coins that the original pallid envoy promised, the duardin are instead presented with thousands of vertebral discs, each bearing a crude image of the Carrion King.[3]
Geography
Location
During the Age of Sigmar Barak-Urbaz floats above the Kingdom of Ayadah, north of Galhalla, the City of the Golden Domes and the Chimera Isles. [1]
Culture
The most cosmopolitan of the sky-ports with many trading partners and the ability to ferry people not only around the Realm of Chamon but into other realms through its secret realmgates. In addition, the most skilled and greatest number of Aether-Khemists dwell in Barak-Urbaz and help to ensure that the cloud mines are the most efficient. The skilled Codewrights have worked hard to ensure that Code claims to the best cloud banks are reserved for the city.[1]
Power and Influence
Capital (aether-gold shares) | Delegates on the Geldraad | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Current capital[4a] | Pre-Garaktormun capital[1] | loss | Pourcentage lost | Current Delegates [4a] | Delegates Pre-Garaktormun[1] | loss |
25,716,102 | 46,412,890 | -20,696,788 | -44.59% | 1 | 2 | -1 |
Inhabitants
Barak-Urbaz is renowned as a cosmopolitan city even by the standards of the sky-ports of the Kharadron. As such Humans, Aelves, and Gholemkind are common sites among the city's outer districts. Though the city's population still remains predominantly Duardin.[6a]
Notable People
- Zhargan Irynheart: Arkanaut Admiral of the Drekka-Duraz.[2]
- Fulson Aethereye: Aetheric Navigator of the Drekka-Duraz.[2]
- Endal Cogfinger: crew member of the Drekka-Duraz.[2]
- Varsk Hunniger Grand Admiral of Barak-Urbaz.[5a]
Quotes
It was not the gods that saved us. It was not even our skyvessels, nor the thunder of our guns. It was compromise. It was negotiation. It was a transaction between equal parties. The Code saved us, and made us what we are.’ .
Grand Admiral Varsk Hunniger of Barak-Urbaz.[4b] |
Gallery
Sources
- 1: Battletome: Kharadron Overlords (2017)
- 1a: Barak-Urbaz, pg. 36
- 2: The Lightning Golem (short story)
- 3: Battletome: Flesh-Eater Courts (2019): Tales of Madness, pg. 19
- 4: Battletome: Kharadron Overlords (2020)
- 5: Soulbound Core Rulebook
- 5a: Chapter Six: Rules, Pg. 122
- 6: Soulbound: Champions of Order
- 6a: Chapter Three: Archetypes
- 7: Gitslayer
- 7a: Chapter Ten