Ruins of Salar

In the lightless nadir of the Crystalfen Cavenrs, directly beneath the splendind Port of Emon, rest the eternally slumbering ruins of Salar. No mortal has beheld these ruins—once the capital of a mighty aboleth dominion—and returned to the surface with wits to tell the tale. Salar is known only in myth and legend as the Unseeable City, because mortal eyes cannot look upon its alien architecture without destroying their fragile minds. Salar is treated as an urband legend by Emon's scholars and archaeologists. Nevertheless, many believe in its existence, for numerous scholars have returned from expeditions into the deep caverns with their minds shattered by otherworldly power.
Those who have returned from Salar brought back journals filled with increasingly crazed notes. The most intelligible of their writings indicate that all that survives of the ruined city are emerald marble structures of unfathomable design, seeming to shift and shimmer as the eye tries to comprehend, moving through time as they remain static in space.
The once-renowned archaeologist Karaline von Ethro claimed to have visions of Salar, describing a subterranean city with twisting pillars that stretched higher than any tower, kissing teh seat of the surface world from the bedrock of the earth. At the peak of the central pillar floats a giant pearlescent disc. This so-called Moon Disc bathes the entire city in unsettling milky light that refracts eerily through the emerald spires.
Karaline von Ethro is long since dead, and her journal—by far the most coherent record of the Unseeable City—is an apocryphal artifact. The Arcana Pansophical kept it in a closely guarded vault, which only added to its mystique. However, the journal was stolen long ago, and since then dozens of manuscripts said to be the Von Ethro Journal have been sold in black markets across Tal'Dorei.

Karaline von Ethro

Archaologist, anthropoligst, and explorer extraordinaire Karaline von Ethro was a human adventurer and inventor. It was her designes that created the Sunbeam Compass, a device that always directs the user to the sun by emitting a small light at the tip of the needle in a tiny glass orb, allowing it to rotate in all directions—a very useful tool when exploring subterranean territory. She also recovered several relics from the battles that occurred in O'Noa, unearthed early civilizations from the Daggerbay Mountains, and predicted civilizations on the Visa Isle. However, despite her discoveries she is most remembered for going mad after allegedly having visions of the Ruins of Salar. Karaline's madness eventually led to her demise at the young age of 37.

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