Elhalenor

"The road you stand on leads to Elahalenor, the CITY OF THE DEAD. Turn back. Turn back now. Whatever treasures are still there they are not worth the cost. Turn back. TURN BACK."

A sign that sits on the road to Elahalenor.

The city of the high elves turned necropolis. A city devastated by the Emperox's magic, a horrific place that now is home simply to the undead and worse. Both the mindless, and the elves unlucky enough to still function.
The city is considered off limits by the Dominion and trespassers are seized. The Dominion takes precautions to prevent the monsters from escaping into the wider world, and so far they have done a good job.

History

A generation ago, Elahalenor was the largest, and most beautiful city on Asoris. A city state that saw the Empire of Many Colours as less of a rival and more of a challenge. A city that used coloured clay to create rainbow spires, spires that would touch the sky and signal to the Empire, ‘we can be better than you.’
But no one could have expected the lengths that the Empire would go to end this challenge. The Matriarch saw the city for what it was, a force that could defeat her armies. Instead of facing it head on, like many invading generals, who would see it as a great obstacle to personally overcome, the Matriarch took the wise path.
She asked for help.
With the Emperox at her side, she erased everything. All of the colour of the city vanished, the multicoloured spires turned black and white. Blues and yellows and reds and greens all became grey.
The Elahalenori stood no chance. With the city dying from the inside, when they opened to gates to escape the horrors that the Matriarch brought upon the great city, the Dominion cut them down like animals.
The elves had the choice of facing two monsters. Creatures from a plane of horror, or monsters from our own plane.
The city fell so quickly, and is the event that brought the elves on the forests into the conflict… but it would be too late. Many cities would surrender, or some would join them willingly.
The Sorrowsworn still wander the grey streets of Elahalenor, or, as we call it now, the Necropolis. The city... of the dead.

RUINED SETTLEMENT
32 years ago

Alternative Name(s)

The Necropolis, the City of the Dead

Type

Megalopolis

Population

Unknown

Inhabitant Demonym

Elhalenori