Xer'Pakti
Xer'Pakti was once thriving Koanka settlement Xer'Pakti home to the Utaki Tribe, they had long traded with merchants of The Ardanti Republics. The city flourished with their arrival, trade was good, and they helped each other, the tribe would guide the new commoners to good hunting ground, show them proper agriculture, what crops would grow and how to sow them, i in return the foreigners brough exotic goods, and good steel to the people of flowing river.
Xer'Pakti was known as the flowing city, situated on a series of river deltas, deviding the city into natural districts from which the inhabitants sailed between or on the shallower grounds walked. It was a great beautiful and golden city for all to behold.
Until the Grim Hand Sails were seen on the horizon, a group of normadic orcs, that had long since terrorized and plundered the local coast lines, Xer'Pakti had denied them their usual tributes, confident in their armaments traded to them by the foreigners, and though their weapons proved devastating on the orc ships, the defenders of the coast was not prepared for the orcs usage of magic and ferocity in battle, eventually attacking and destroying each district, it proved to a days long fight, as each district was sieged and attacked, the survivors fled the city to the foreign northerens while others were trapped in the encirclement to be slaughtered by the orcs. In the end, the priest of made one last desperate prayer to the the Mer-serpent, begging her to save her children and to destroy those that would sack her temple.
Layout
The city was structured around 4 small islands formed by a river delta. At it's center is a great plaza, with three great temples at each of it's corners, the central island has been heavily extended by artifical means, for many fine houses and light fortifications around it. While two of the surronding islands were have many smaller houses build in clusters between the marsh land too loose, with much of them used to grow crops. While the third island closest to the ocean, has harbor and other fine houses and plazas build on it, though small compared to the main island.Architecture
Since the city was build upon the swampy river deltas, much of the city was built upon foundations made of concrete-like mixture of gravel, sand, and lime. These foundation slabs were anchored into the marshy soil by the pilings made from local tree trunks.
The major temples and structures are made from limestone, the houses/estates of the nobles are made in the rechtangular shapes which are open in the center as an internal garden. Usually such walls are adorned with murals, dedicated to the gods and past events. While the roofs are usually tiled with triangular tiles. The houses are almost never structed with additional levels.
The temples similiariy made from limestone, are sights to behold, great rectangular pyramids, adorned with statues and murals to their respective gods, inlaid with precious stones they sparkle in the sunlight and reflect the splendor of their gods. The most common motif for these murals and statues are serpents.
The houses for the commoners is made out of timber and the great leaves of the trees for isolation on the roof.
Geography
The city was built upon three large river delta's, along the riversides the jungle loomes heavy, creating a thick green wall of folliage, while the river itself was very shallow and swampy. Though the area has a haunting beauty to, the river rolling steadily towards the ocean, with the ruined city, it's old splendor washed away, dirtied by neglect and the seaweed and growth that seems to have infested it's walls since the great wave.
An unnatural silence looms over the old ruins and surrounding jungle and marsh.
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