The Flood of Ancient Herodotus

An ancient story responsible for the 'The Flood of Herodotus Statute' in common marmot law. From it, marmot teachers give students of quarrying and architecture their first lesson and example in humility, caution, and the need for group expertise.
  Enemies of the marmots sometimes construe this story as divine retribution for the marmots' arrogance and stubbornness, or simply as an inevitable consequence that will follow all their great works at some point or another.

Manifestation

When Herodotus was a young city and marmot architecture wasn't as advanced, a greater monsoon through Dawdlepad and the Sailcoasts resulted in a great rain that lasted for a week in Herodotus. On the first day of unyielding rain, Herodotus foolishly claimed that the cities' burrows and ports had never been flooded before, and therefore would never be flooded. On the third day, Herodotus fled the city, as its docks and many coastal homes had been destroyed and their inhabitants wished to air out their grievances with the ruler. On the sixth day, Herodotus the Second organized the greatest minds and strongest rock chucks of the city to create the great drainage, and eventually sewage, system that protects Herodotus to this day.

Localization

Quite simply, other settlements in Dawdlepad and the Sailcoasts have no record of a great rain and flood happening the same timeframe, nor even other settlements near the coast in The Maunderlands. It is likely that they weren't close enough to the shore to be entertwined with maritime trade, or so antelope and marmot historians agree. Other settlements almost may have been so small as to move away if their land was getting flooded by a week of rain.

Type

Natural