Meroe

The capital of Kush is Meroe, which was founded near a lush savannah in the heart of Kush. The city of Meroe is where narrow-featured, dusky-skinned aristocratics, descendents of Stygian merchants, rule over a magnificent kingdom. Citadels of  teakwood or mahogany, with reinforced walls, are where they live and worship Set. Beyond these walls lies the Outer City, inhabited by the black-skinned native castes, despised and subjugated by their aristocracy. The muscular men and statuesque women of Kush live inside thatched huts, while their marketplace economy consists of trade in pottery, hammered brass, spearheads, and banana beer. Tribute is exacted from them by the Black Spearmen, backbone of the royal army. The lower castes swear by the snaky locks of Derketa, Queen of the Dead, and worship her at the Temple of Juliah.