Jewel

Written by Artgalles

The town of Jewel, a work of art of a people since passed. The town itself is built inside a massive ruin, the trivial size of the town leaves much darkness inside this large fortress. It stands lonely on top of the Ruby Mountain range, surrounded by no path or homes. Untouched by people for centuries, only to be claimed as their empire started crumbling. The walls reach high up past what is visible by us, anything could be lurking up there and we wouldn't know until it came down. The walls are etched in with very small wave patterns, cut cleanly repeating without fault. Large pillars cover the walls and stand in the centre of the room, untouched and without anything surrounding them, curving slightly from the immense weight upon them. The indents and pillars are lined with brass and in a few places jewel clusters sprout, which is where the town name arouse from.
~Zenia Botem

Built into the ruins of an old giant settlement. There are a great many houses built inside in a grid-like fashion. Streets are kept alight by the use of torches. The town was under excavation for a long time and still is to this day, but the town's original use is as a bunker for any threatening attacks that may arise. Once the Shesire Sovereignty took over it renamed the town to Jewel to try and erase the towns association with it being the last bastion of defense for the Helman Council.
It has no farms so it relies purely on neighbouring farming settlements to supply crops. The main income it generates is by finding pieces of the ancient giant civilization and exchanging this to Wright and the Musk Candle for funds and supplies.
There are many undiscovered tunnels in the mountain, some reach the underworld caverns, while others are closed off. The rooms are massive compared to the average height of a human.
The Ruby Massacre took place on the 32nd of Sedalaend 73FS (32/8/73FS). This event accrued from the Musk Candle opening up an excavation site to send some mercenaries in, since after they returned for a night's rest a swarm of cavern dwellers that lived in there for centuries came out and rampaged through the city. They were slain by the town guards and a few individuals including the mercenaries that let them escape. The victims were minimal but still enough to catch peoples attention and leave a notable effect on the town. Reducing the towns incoming wealth and population as people became more fearful of attacks to come, this left the town to become more of an excavation site with more guards being hired for duty. A contrast to relaxed life style the town had before.

Type

Underground / Vault

Related Historical Events

• 73 AS
  Ruby Massacre