Rhax (pronounced RAX) is a large fortified city within the Viridian province of Ertan. Located on the northern shores of Paralis Island, roughly 70 miles south of the entrance to the Bay of Ertan, it has long been an important stop for merchant vessels in the Sea of Ersas, if not typically a destination itself. The city, and the island upon which it has grown, are comparatively newer territorial acquisitions of Viridia, having only joined the Dominion in Y8622*. Even since then, however, its allegiance to the crown has been tenuous at best, its navarchs often aligning themselves with their peers in the Ersas city-states instead. Only in Y9731* with the dismissal and abolishment of the navarchate, the imposition of martial law, and the subsequent permanent presence of the legions did this situation finally change.
The people of Rhax remain culturally quite close to the island dwellers to the west. This is immediately obvious to any visitor to the city, which is built in distinctly Hellean styles of architecture. There is a sizable aquatic population as well, and a corresponding underwater district to Rhax, a rarity elsewhere in Viridia but not atypical amongst the Ten Thousand Islands.