Paloria

Oceans lap the stones of the southern wasted continent, birds roost in the great stone trees reaching to the heavens, pillars of a time before the quakes. In the distance perhaps one sees that disheveled section of roadway that sits abreast of the fallen buildings that once hugged its sides. This is a very apt description of what one might see if they were to venture to Paloria, once the shimmering emerald of the southern Kingdom. She is gone, along with all the lands as far as the eye can see, swallowed by the sea. Her only residents now are crabs, seagulls, and aquatic life that swims through the submerged city as if she is a cavernous network of caves.  

History

Beautiful, that is the word the world once used to explain the most southern city of Old Kalandar. Built with the blood and hands of man and halflings this fantastical city rose into the sky like a tower to the gods. Constructed of marble of the most emerald green Paloria, the Tower of Lights glimmered against the backdrop of an endless ocean. Over a million souls called this vertical city home in her prime.   Almost a century before the first of the great quakes rocked the world Paloria is silently sucked into oblivion in the space of not more than a few hours. A great swathe of the southern Kingdom disappears, when the morning comes the closest cities send aid south but find nothing but a calm sea where once the great emerald city shone like a beacon.  

Modern Day

Very little is known beyond the histories above of Paloria, she has been gone for over 800 years now. Any records kept deteriorated a long time ago as the younglings do not put great emphasis on preserving the past, as such it was never considered important to retain the history of a dead city. Being from the continent of the young races very few of the everliving ever made the time to visit such a distant city being that it required them to cross some 2500 miles of annoying younglings lands.   After the great quakes, most of that southern continent became not just uninhabitable but dangerous so no one ventured it until very recently.   A few artifacts were collected there by a Keeper that sailed there in 1155 though. These can be seen behind lock and key at the Museum in Hegelind.