Sanctus Cavea, the Ruined Church

Sanctus Cavea used to be one of the six great cities of Eden, rivaling the titular city itself in wealth and population. Built on a large mesa at the center of two large canyons, the grand cathedral of the Wardens remains the biggest structure in the country. It is regularly touted as one of the Four Wonders of Brif, the dramatic gothic spires casting long shadows on land and legend alike.
The whole city built up around the cathedral, settled due to what is rumored to have been the first of the Divine Wells  in Eden. The oldest structures in the city predate the founding of the The Church of Wardens, raising some questions over the eventual conversion to follow the Warden pantheon.
Now though, despite Sanctus Cavea's rich past as a pilgrimage destination and powerful city in its own right, it is abandon. The streets are home only to a few madmen priests, vagrants too desperate to heed the danger, and a tremendous number of white doves. The entire population resettled on the other side of one canyon before knocking down the magnificent bridge that crossed it. This is how Refuge was settled 240 years ago after the appearance of the Beast.
Filled with nothing but trash and dust, the streets of Sanctus Cavea are at times referenced as "the Ruined Church" by those with a melodramatic bent. The buildings that line the empty roads follow Victorian and Gothic architectural styles. The city itself is flanked on two sides by great chasms with rivers at the bottom, the third side expanding out into the rolling plains of southeast Eden. There were three major roads, two of which crossed the impressive bridges over the chasms, but two lie in disrepair while the third ends in the rubble of its bridge crossing, destroyed in the panicked flight from the Beast.
Ironically, despite all the despair and horror the city engenders now, the blessing of the Well it lies atop still functions as before, guaranteeing any clouds over the city to break at noon for an hour, no matter the weather.

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City