Varchas
"The Mirrored City, where Light was always the Law..."
"They worship the sun in Varchas, and have banished darkness from the city."
"The city is a beacon against the tree-hushed, sprawling darkness of the Elder Continent. In the far distance a vast mountain glimmers."
Varchas is a city of light and mirrors on the Elder Continent. Its inhabitants all seem to be scared of the dark. They believe that darkness does something similar to stealing one's soul, in that it "joins" those exposed to it to the name-stealing god Taamas. As a result, the Varchasi worship Mihir, god of light, and they only let people from darker parts of the Neath stay in Varchas for one day at a time. The priests and priestesses of Mihir radiate a large amount of heat. They believe the reason they fell into the neath is because Mihir lost them. The massive amount of light they produce will help him find them again.
The entire city is constantly illuminated by candles and mirrors. The Varchasi are well aware of the presence of the Fingerkings, who seek to escape through, well, basically any surface in Varchas. As such, it is advised that one tries not to dream or touch the mirrors (or eat meat, or tell fictional or exaggerated stories - those are forbidden as well). For sleeping, they peddle sigil-marked snakeskin charms that either keep the Fingerkings away or prevent the dreamer from remembering them after an encounter.
When the Fingerkings do possess an individual, the poor soul is simply locked away from mirrors. They are given food and water to survive, and even kept in the light, despite the cost of this.
