Angabad

The structures in and around the city, though delapidated, are still enormous in scale, almost all of them lined with huge vine-like stone tendrils that wrap around the buildings. Black gargoyles dot the walls and collapsing spires of the ancient city, fearsome visages that still ward off interlopers.

The city was designed long ago, with massive stone walls sprouting from the mountain and encasing the city within. The entire settlement was constructed as if it were a fortress, with defensive capabilities that could fend off any army for years. Great towers dotted the enormous walls, all lined with siegeworks.

Many of these structures still stand, though they have fallen into states of complete disrepair. The city itself has been raided and scavenged of valuables and supplies, though some relic hunters still stalk the ruins in search of ancient weapons and artifacts.

It is unknown who first built the fortress city of Angabad, although most historians agree that the city was built around a thousand years before the Starfall. The city's history before the starfall is vague and subject to unchecked speculation. What is known is it came to be under the control of a powerful group of Vykeen warlocks at some time around 20 UC. Legends say they practiced blood magic to bind the city to their will, and make its people slaves. The Vykeen persisted through the Starfall, becoming the strongest city of the south in a matter of hours. Great flesh markets arose in and around the old city, who sent out slavers to stalk and ravage the refugee towns littering the northern coasts and inlets of Outland.

Angabad was sacked and utterly destroyed in 107 AC, during the great slave revolt led by Kaos Kahn. Very little is recorded about the events that unfolded during the revolt, but the result was the total devastation of the city and its abandonment. What is known is that a slave named Kaos Kotal, who would become known as Kaos Kahn, rallied the thousands of slaves of Angabad to rebel against their overlords. What happened to the Vykeen warlocks is unknown, but their death is assumed due to the immense destruction that apparently befell the city's inhabitants. Thousands of ashy, petrified corpses can still be found in desolated buildings or cowering in corners, frozen in their last moments.

Although many of its great towers and walls still stand, Angabad sits an abandoned ruin. An eerie shadow hangs over the empty city. Tales tell of the Vykeen warlocks cursing the city with dark magic, or another star falling onto the city. The legends are not enough, however, to deter nomads or slave catchers from scavenging or even living in the ancient ruins.