Overview
Astralem is a cold industrial city in Varnhallow, built into terraced western mountain slopes. It is known for mining, construct production, skyship technology, and Benedict, its divine patriarch.
Description
Astralem's cityscape is mountain-built, with layered stonework carved into cliffs and terraced slopes. A gate built under Astralem during the Malverand era later lets travelers emerge below the city.
The city is close enough to Rimvold that Jin visits it during his investigation into Varnhallow's relationship to Skarnheim. There he befriends Benedict; Benedict shares skyship-construction secrets with him, and Jin takes part in testing newer construct models. The test worsens Varnhallow's instability and sends constructs through rifts toward Skarnheim.
History
Benedict is Astralem's divine patriarch during Varnhallow's temporal anomaly. He visits Luminaris during Thalion's rise through the patriarch system and later invites Thalion to Astralem. Svanhild's group enters the Astralynne tournament under cover and locates Maia and Lysander in Astralem during the undercover tournament search.