Weehollow

Weehollow, the Giant City, is one of the Thirteen Cities of Norn, located on the northwestern coast of the Isle of Norn. It was founded in the territory of the defeated Lord of Giants, Jamrog the Massive.

Arthur Emeric is the current Champion of Weehollow, and is one of the longest-tenured Champions in Champion Challenge history.

History

Back before the time of humanoids, giants constructed a series of enormous ziggurats in one of their smaller settlements. Today, a few hundred thousand humanoids live in these buildings. Since the ziggurat stairs are far too large to climb, cables cover the buildings and everyone travels in aerial gondolas. Dividers have been put up inside the ziggurats to create apartments, so Weehollow is a popular city for young professionals coming out of high school and college.

Champion Challenge history

A timeline of Weehollow's champions.

Champions of Weehollow include:

• Charlie Belfast
• Arthur Emeric

Geography and cityscape

Ziggurats

Weehollow is a group of 25 ziggurats arranged in a rough square. They stand at around 600 feet tall and are covered in webs of steel, on which gondolas (spherical cabs that carry about 10 people each) run up and across.

Each ziggurat is constructed from slabs of sandstone except for the largest central ziggurat, which seems to have been carved from a single piece of limestone. This is known as the Great Gray, and its levels include a convention center, the town hall, and the upper floors, where Arthur Emeric lives and conducts his challenges.

Beaches

The city is surrounded on several sides by the ocean, known as the Domain of Man, or just "the Domain." The rocky beaches of the city and boat trips from Weehollow Harbor are common tourist destinations for students studying abroad. The Wyrmspine, the mountain range that enshrines The Hoard, ends just to the south of Weehollow.

Neighborhoods

Weehollow is divided up into four large neighborhoods: the Gray Zone, the Helmet Coast, Cobble Heights, and Venture Row.

Gray Zone

The Gray Zone, the central area, is home to the Great Gray, as well as government buildings and upscale shops and restaurants.

Helmet Coast

The northwest section of the city is known as Helmet Coast, so named for the protective gear that locals used to wear before the adjacent Jotun Tech and Soulspark College imposed more safety measures to get their students under control (many a concussion was suffered from a rogue Catapult spell). This area has many of popular bars and clubs, giving it a rowdy atmosphere at night.

Cobble Heights

The southern neighborhood of Weehollow is known as Cobble Heights. This area is heavily residential. The 600 foot ziggurats are about 50 stories each, and concrete and metal have been inserted inside to create enormous apartment buildings. Each one is large enough to house about 20,000 people. There are a few major housing companies that manage several ziggurat apartments each, and rent is somewhat pricey but manageable for students and recent graduates.

Venture Row

Venture Row is the business district of Weehollow. This area’s pyramids are filled with insurance, healthcare, and construction (a specialty of Weehollow) companies, but there are also a few more unique businesses:

• Channel 13 Exports, the merchandise hub of Channel 13 Entertainment, is headquartered here. Many people are employed in factories or advertising firms that create and sell Arthur Emeric trading cards, Maxie Tallowtwitch hair products, and Gus Grimeclaw .22 caliber bullets.
• Weehollow is also home to the Champion Archives. Run entirely by volunteers working with donations, this organization is the foremost expert on the history, trends, and drama of the Champion Challenge and features stacks of digital and paper records as well as statues and descriptive plaques of all Champions past and present.

Education

Weehollow contains three large postsecondary institutions, and is sometimes referred to as a "college town":

• Hollow University, the “state school” of Weehollow. It doesn’t have much in the way of specialized or magical education, but solid all-around programs and low tuition for locals make it a popular choice. It has a bit of a reputation as a party school, and students (called “Hollies”) often heavily pregame Arthur Emeric’s fights.
• Soulspark College, which primarily markets to sorcerers and other students with innate magical abilities they are struggling to control. It has the vibes of a small liberal arts college and the students, known as Sparkplugs, are considered somewhat pretentious.
• Jotun Tech, which has pretty bad academics but offers a variety of combat-themed majors, such as Bladesmanship and Advanced Brawling. JT has produced a fair number of Champions, including Arthur Emeric. This is a huge talking point for Jotuns in their rivalry with the Hollies.

Weehollow also contains a number of private and public K-12 schools, such as the high school Weehollow Academy.