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The City of Omear

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At the gaping mouth of the blazing river Vig, where streaming torrents of liquid flame - not lava - rolled into the surging Gulf of Qodakka in an ascending pillar of searing vapour plummeting towards the skies - was built a wondrous and ostentatious city with every building plated with a most peculiar variety of gold that glowed in the same manner as smouldering ember. Long since has the gold been removed by the many barbaric nations that attempted to claim the city. It was once situated by a valley fertile in both soil and metals, but the city was abandoned once its surrounding region eventually diminished in humidity and became a desert. The hills became dunes and the many lakes in the locale dried up into broad silt flats.

As of the Age of Modernity, the Athylgonian Archaeologist's Association has claimed the city of Omear. It has been concluded that the metal that once plated every building is actually an alloy consisting of gold and another metal unknown to Athylgon, or the sages and scholars of any other civilized polity in Ardion at all. It is hypothesized that the settlement was a city-state, built and inhabited by people of a rather sophisticated culture and technological level. Nearby ruins of lesser settlements inspire the possibility that it may have had vassal states.

Aside from the lack of gilding, the ruins are spectacularly intact, since much of the technology did not make much sense to the more primitive peoples who reclaimed the city. Because of the more simple buildings constructed on the western edge, it is theorized that after the city was abandoned, a savage species that was more suited to arid climes than the original settlers lived here. Other theories suggest that the crude structures on the outer side were a ghetto where said savages were allowed to construct their dwellings away from the Omeareans. However, less signs of age have been observed on the eastern edge than in the city proper, granting more credibility to the former.

The most likely candidate for the race that constructed the city are most likely the Huryuj, who have an extremely complex religion consisting of hundreds and thousands of divinities, minor spirits, apostles, gurus and demigods. Given the nature of the origins of deities in this universe, proof of their existence is indubitably irrefutable. The baking-hot and arid surroundings of Omear have made it utterly uninhabitable, and no attempt whatsoever has been made to replenish the land or get the hardpan riverbed to flow again. No permanent settlement has been made, and the closest thing reesembling that are tents. Equipment, armaments, libations and provender are provided via cargo train en route from Jholandrah Klaarbis.
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