Tel Ramiya
Tel Ramiya was once the capital of Nehemen before its destruction in 1092 AS, in an event known as the Tel Ramiya Crisis.
Prior to the Tel Ramiya Crisis, Nehemen was a land of warm, coastal forests. Because of this, Tel Ramiya was founded in a fairly central location of the province it ruled, roughly half way between where the Adlonian Peninsula met the mainlaind, and where the Nehemeni forests gave way to the grasslands of the Kartheesi plains.
As the Adlon Empire spread across Rhyduania, Tel Ramiya grew to be the jewel at the cultural center of the colonies. Even though it was ruled by an elven aristocracy, the court surrounding the Imperial Governor of the province, it was a demographically human city, the location of the largest population of humans of any city on the continent by a wide margin.
It gained a reputation as a shining beacon of culture, education, and commerce. Its signature spiraled architecture drew visitors from across the continent. Complex aqueducts brought magically filtered sea water half-way across the province into beautiful botanical gardens, with waterfalls and trickling streams carrying freshwater across the city.
The city's golden age came to an end when a cult of Zuggtmoy introduced spores from their patron into the waterways of the city, infecting much of the populace and its plant life in a matter of days. The infestation began to spread rapidly outward across the forests of Nehemen.
In an act of desperation, dozens of the city's wisest priests and most gifted mages (some sources claim exactly seven of each) gathered together to perform an enormous ritual in the heart of the city, sacrificing their own lives to scour away all life in the vicinity with a radiant blast of energy. The city and its inhabitants were incinerated instantly. The energy released by the explosion washed over the province, killing all plant life as the ridges and cliffs along its southern border deflected the energy east and west along the entire length of Nehemen.
Today, Tel Ramiya is little more than a crater filled with the shattered pieces of ancient buildings, lying at the center of the vast desert Nehemen has become. It's a physically dangerous place to be, even without the undead and other strange monsters. The only reason most sane people would want go there is to collect coruscatum, the crystalline residue of the blast that destroyed the city.
Prior to the Tel Ramiya Crisis, Nehemen was a land of warm, coastal forests. Because of this, Tel Ramiya was founded in a fairly central location of the province it ruled, roughly half way between where the Adlonian Peninsula met the mainlaind, and where the Nehemeni forests gave way to the grasslands of the Kartheesi plains.
As the Adlon Empire spread across Rhyduania, Tel Ramiya grew to be the jewel at the cultural center of the colonies. Even though it was ruled by an elven aristocracy, the court surrounding the Imperial Governor of the province, it was a demographically human city, the location of the largest population of humans of any city on the continent by a wide margin.
It gained a reputation as a shining beacon of culture, education, and commerce. Its signature spiraled architecture drew visitors from across the continent. Complex aqueducts brought magically filtered sea water half-way across the province into beautiful botanical gardens, with waterfalls and trickling streams carrying freshwater across the city.
The city's golden age came to an end when a cult of Zuggtmoy introduced spores from their patron into the waterways of the city, infecting much of the populace and its plant life in a matter of days. The infestation began to spread rapidly outward across the forests of Nehemen.
In an act of desperation, dozens of the city's wisest priests and most gifted mages (some sources claim exactly seven of each) gathered together to perform an enormous ritual in the heart of the city, sacrificing their own lives to scour away all life in the vicinity with a radiant blast of energy. The city and its inhabitants were incinerated instantly. The energy released by the explosion washed over the province, killing all plant life as the ridges and cliffs along its southern border deflected the energy east and west along the entire length of Nehemen.
Today, Tel Ramiya is little more than a crater filled with the shattered pieces of ancient buildings, lying at the center of the vast desert Nehemen has become. It's a physically dangerous place to be, even without the undead and other strange monsters. The only reason most sane people would want go there is to collect coruscatum, the crystalline residue of the blast that destroyed the city.
RUINED SETTLEMENT
1092 AS
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