The capital, built around the Pool of Names, the sacred site where pilgrims undergo the ritual to learn their true name. Moura sits in the west-central interior, deep enough in the jungle that the ambient effects are constant but not overwhelming.
Velwey Architecture: The city is built in the trees rather than beneath them. Platforms and structures of woven vines, crystallized dream-matter, and shaped wood spiral up through the canopy, connected by rope bridges and spiral stairs. The buildings breathe with soft purple-green light. Walls shimmer with half-seen images, the residue of generations of dreaming rather than any deliberate decoration.
The Pool of Names: At the city's heart lies a still, dark body of water. The Pool predates the Velwey; they found it when they first came to Movasi, studied its properties, and built their civilization around it. The surface reflects nothing. The depth is unknown. Some say it connects to something deeper than water.
The ritual itself takes days of preparation: fasting, guided lesser trips, confession of all names the pilgrim currently knows. On the final night, the pilgrim drinks the prepared sacrament and submerges alone. What they experience in the dark water varies. Most emerge knowing their true name. Some emerge knowing other things. A few don't emerge at all; the Pool claims perhaps one in fifty pilgrims, their bodies never recovered.
The Confidentiality Architecture: The Velwey designed the ritual so that priest-guides never learn the pilgrim's name. They prepare you, stabilize you, guide you to the threshold, but the moment of revelation happens in a space they cannot access. You submerge alone. What you hear in the dark is between you and whatever answers.
This is why pilgrims trust the Velwey: the ritual makes betrayal impossible, not any virtue on the Velwey's part.
The Speaking Houses: After emerging from the Pool, pilgrims often need to speak their name aloud: to commit it to memory, to practice forming the sounds, to share it with chosen witnesses. The Speaking Houses are private chambers where this can happen safely, warded against eavesdropping by any means.
Population: ~12,000 (mostly Velwey, plus transient pilgrims and support staff).