Vendlviem

"The people of Vendlviem, the island paradise, sought to enjoy the oceans beyond which that was permissable by the gods. They sought to usurp the clear intentions of the Primordials, seeking ways to breathe underwater, to hybridize themselves with sea going fish, to grant themselves gills to pair with lungs, so they could rule land and sea. For their heresy, for their foolish crime, they were punished, for their strange sciences did not go as planned. Their experiments, their fleshwarping, their organic alteration machines got out of control, lost to the Void, surging with dark power. Their entire race was twisted and mutilated, their airways as we know them robbed from them, as their entire civilization, their entire peoples, were sundered and sank below the oceans. Vendlviem, the greatest of their cities, the legends of it still persist, though none truly know where it sank. The people were robbed of their ability to breathe, and they became as fish, but as humanoids, a hideous monstrosity unable to reproduce naturally, their cities swallowed by the oceans, and all but forgotten, except for Vendlviem. To this day, legends of the forgotten nation's capital, Vendlviem, and long lost treasures lost to the deep. Some tales would have you believe it is somewhere in the Nor'westor Sea. Others, the Sea of Chains, others still the Sea of Sails. Throughout the ages, there have been at least two dozen such stories. There have been foolhardy attempts, notably often involving Magisters of the Sapphire Order for obvious reasons, to follow these stories and find this lost city and the treasures within. Those few whom return? Return with horror stories, tales of truly nightmarish beings and creatures, denizens of these so called 'sunken and abandoned cities.'

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This lost city does exist at the bottom of the deepest part of the Sea of Sails, some 3 miles below the water's surface, on the ocean floor. It is the loose 'capital' of the merfolk, as much of a capital as such a half feral-half sapient species can be expected to have. It is a place of horror, darkness, strange and terrifying machines and experimentation of the flesh of many kinds.

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City