Located on the tenth and eleventh plots of the Goblet butte’s sixteenth ward, Nanasha Garrison serves as the base of operations for the Immortal Flames 4th Combined Brigade, a mixed regiment of professional soldiers and proven irregulars. Led by a Flame Commander of the Bloodsworn, the Garrison is not just a staging area to sortie operations across wider Thanalan, but a location that allows a greater level of liaising with the adventurers and free companies of Ul’dah.
The two structures of the site include the Garrison proper, as well as the Annex, which at this time serves as the residence for the commanding officer. The Garrison’s exterior compound is both a training yard and parade ground.
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GROUND FLOOR
The ground floor includes the commander’s recess and the chancery, where the main functions of regimental administration take place.
The antechamber is the main entrance to the Garrison. Like the Hall of Flames in the capital, it is open to the public. Visitors and other guests may wait here until someone on duty sees to them, for they are not permitted past the antechamber without an official escort.
The office of the Flame Commander is accessible via the right door from the antechamber. The commanding officer leads the regiment from here, with some private accommodations for esteemed guests, such as the latest liquors from the Alchemists’ Guild kept in stock.
Through the left door from the antechamber, the chancery is the main duty office for the day-to-day administration of the regiment, allowing for the drafting of missives, the management of moneys, and the maintenance of official records. A busy thoroughfare, the main stairwell to the basement areas built deeper into the butte are accessible from here.
UPPER FLOOR
The upper floor is dedicated to more communal functions, including a mess hall, assembly room, and lounge for visitors.
Somewhat more generous than a regular Thanalan army kitchen, but nothing in comparison to even the most modest of Ul’dahn eateries, the mess hall cooks breakfast, dinner, and supper daily, with a midsun meal available as a snack to be taken away for the duty shift. Available meals vary and depend on ingredient stock levels. There is also Ul’dahn sunset wheat ale and Ala Mhigan arak available on tap. See the full range of meals here.
The assembly room is located across from the mess hall, and is an area for classroom instruction, mission briefings, and regimental meetings. Common Grand Company literature is stocked here and available for general use, ranging from contemporary operations manuals to military treatises from Thanalan’s history.
Nestled in an intimate alcove and featuring fanciful upholstery on solid carpentry, the lounge is reserved exclusively for entertaining esteemed guests to the Flame Commander. It must be kept in tip-top shape otherwise; any Garrison personnel found making use of this space without prior permission will be subject to disciplinary action.
LOWER FLOOR
The lower floor is the main living space for the Immortal Flame soldiers posted at Nanasha Garrison. Spaces include bunks for junior and senior personnel, a washroom, and a desk for the clerk on duty.
The barracks has enough bunk space for twelve troops of soldier or junior petty officer rank, as well as a table for social use. Only salaried personnel of the Immortal Flames are permitted to reside here. Unsalaried soldiers or soldiers who own property elsewhere are forbidden from living at the Garrison.
Located adjacent to the barracks, the senior quarters are for salaried personnel of the regiment who hold senior petty or junior commissioned officer rank. With only three bunks available, space is competitive, and thus typically reserved for regimental staff only.
Featuring newly-invented machina called “showers”, this washroom is unlike any other found at Immortal Flame outposts, using heated water pumped from the Sultana’s Breath windmill. The barracks clerk offers bathing supplies, who will additionally ensure only one gender at a time is permitted in the washroom. Violations will see severe punishments.
BASEMENT AREAS
Accessible via the chancery on the ground floor, these areas are built within the rocky butte beneath the Garrison’s lower floor.
The infirmary is currently manned by a physicker, a journeyman alchemist as his assistant, and various contracted personnel. A wide variety of medicines are supplied to the regiment through Frondale’s Phrontistery to ensure the garrison’s continued well-being. Stock ranges from that which is freely available (such as lotions, essences, and feminine hygienics) to powerful medicines which can only be prescribed.
The Garrison’s gaol is typically used for misbehaving troops, but can sometimes be utilized for peacekeeping duties within the Goblet and adjacent capital city. There is a large holding cell and two smaller cells for solitary confinement, as well as an area for interrogations.
The Order of Nald’thal maintains a chapel here for the spiritual health of the garrisoned Immortal Flame soldiers. Services are conducted here thrice a sennight by an Order priest or priestess, with private confessionals available by appointment. The shrine is always open, and can also be used for other ceremonies such as bondings and funerals.
