Begotten Paradise
Geography
Begotten Paradise consists of a sort of natural bowl shaped rock formation, with a spring of fresh water in the center. The entire area surrounding the central watering hole is sunken into the ground, making the position quite well hidden in addition to its already secluded location. Somtime in the primitive days of Tandara, a native civilization built dwellings into the sides of the rock, but the area has been long abandoned since then.
History
There have been historical records uncovered over the ages telling tales of many different ancient and not so ancient civilizations utilizing the spot for its rare fresh water in the area's arid environment, in everything from written texts to traditional writings to tales passed down through word of mouth. It seems several ancient tribes even revered the location as a holy site. In the later 1860s Nydonian explorers reordered the location of the spot and people began to often use it as a rest stop when traveling across the plains for trade, migration, or any other means.
(above: Nydonian explorers, Robert Mirena and Bertrond Gulfport at the site in 1867)
As for its use in more recent times, the oasis is the closest landmark to the point at which the countries of the Holy Kingdom of Stanna, Mahadrin, and the Republic of Nydonia border each other, the historic sight was used as the location for the signing of the peace treaty that ended the Southern Tandara Bush War as it was as close to equally distant from each country as possible. Finally, in 1999 Mahadrin 0built a permanent town near the location to feed off the natural pull of tourism the spot posses and hopefully help the country's slowly crumbling economy. In 2028, a dirty bomb was triggered by terrorists in the town of then almost 4,000 people, rendering the site uninhabitable from that point on and forever marring the natural beauty of the landscape.
Tourism
Many tourists visit the sight of the oasis, both to observe the ancient dwellings as well as to see the statue erected in honor of the peace treaty signed there, transient as it turned out to be.
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