Sokatis

Sokátis
The Cinnabar Porch is a prominent monument in the city. In essence it is a high, covered balcony overlooking an expanse of smoke-wreathed domes and temple towers. The Porch provides a shady meeting place for the savants of the city to sit beneath the graceful arabesques of a distant era, drink dark Ngálu wine and dispute amongst each other over the lore of the ancients and tiding of arcane events.

Kashkomái: A little valley in the mountains to the east of Sokátis where the “Worm Prince” retired after his mind was befuddled. There are iron mines there.

Epic of Tháunü of Sokátis.

Source: "Tekumel Lineages, Clans, and Notes 2" Tekume Yahoo group

The Temple of Thúmis library
Adventure: Lost in the Library The Library

The library is divided by era, by subject, by collection and by type of media (e.g. paper, parchment, wooden plaques, metal plates, clay tablets, etc). All of these sections can overlap each other. Thus, an Engsvanyáli spell-book given to the library 1,000 years ago as part of a larger bequest from a near-by fief-holder could be stored with the Engsvanyáli-era books, with the spell-books, as part of the fief-holder’s collection or with other parchment documents. In essence, finding a book requires the assistance of the scholar priest or the curator who will have memorized its location.

Although it’s not of sorcerous origin, the acoustics of the library are such that sound does not travel well at well. The rows of books that crisscross the room render noises from one section virtually inaudible in another section. Even within each section, the sheer mass of items tends to absorb sound.

Books line every wall depicted on the map. Each room within the library is not a wide-open space. Besides the main work tables of the scholar priest in charge of the section, there are shelves, tables and piles of books and manuscripts everywhere.