The capital city of Shadow Ilyria is Veniss. Another city of particular note is Akiles. The current ruler of Ilyria is Adrian. Adrian has three brothers: Dorian, Aleksander, and - an adopted exile from Shadow Regata - Athos. Veniss is canal cities, waters full of sirens and beguiling enchantments, and the rest of Ilyria follows an 18th century France-trying to be-Pastoral Greece mode. Ilyria possesses a hedge maze, and there is an alternate shadow route to Ilyria via hedge maze if you know it's there and want to avoid the water. Very few people know it's there.

Akiles is named after the founder of the Myrmidons. The Myrmidons are an elite fighting force with a fearsome reputation throughout the Golden Circle, and though a detachment of Myrmidons is stationed according to tradition in Akiles, the force is usually with the ruler of Ilyria and Veniss has been the capital for oh these many years.

Sophistication is Ilyria's watch word, but so, too, perhaps is "intrigue" and "lies."

Tensions typically between: Deiga, Aragon, Kashfa, Løvetann, and worth noting recently Regata for sheltering Athos