Zalygtarer City
Travel deep enough into the Vice-kingdom of Lysandre's western Elderwood and you will come across a lonely fort silently standing sentinel over a small but thriving community. It is a place whose original name and history have long since passed from living memory, save for the trees. Ancient trees wider than wagon wheels stretch skyward like giants, limbs interspersed like joined hands to create a dense canopy of cooling shade from the sun's summer rays. The city of Zalygtarer rises from the ashes of the past, at the hands of a people seeking refuge from the troubles of war and what they perceive to be the false promises of the new empire.
History
The First Age
Like many of the refugees who fled East from the Kynekin Rebellion, Nasyym Fy'zan struggled to provide for his family in the overcrowded and under-resourced Imperial cities. By the winter of 838 1A, with the war roughly reaching its midpoint, he had become disillusioned with the kind of life Imperial leadership was willing to accept for their people. He surmised at best they were unable to provide for the people, at worst they were willfully negligent to their suffering and turning a blind eye. Packing up his family and their meager belongings, Fy'zan and a group of several hundred like-minded folk set out to find a place offering increased safety and stability; a refuge from the storm of chaos wrought by the war. Roughly 300 miles northwest of the Lysandre's capital city of Khalismyr, the caravan would come upon an abandoned Imperial outpost and the remains of a small village fallen into disrepair. Laying claim to the abandoned site, the refugees would struggle through that first winter as they fought not against soldiers or the threat of war, but against the elements, against disease, starvation, and the dangerous predators lurking in the shadows of the Elderwood. In a testament to their suffering, they would come to call this place Zalygtarer, the Canopy of Empty Tears.Modern Zalygtarer: The Second Age
The remainder of the war went largely unnoticed by the settlers of Zalygtarer, much as the revitalized settlement went unnoticed by the rest of the realm. Over the last sixty years, the Zalygtarer Elves have come together, building a thriving and defensible community. They established a lucrative, sustainable trade around the shepherding of one of the Elderwood's denizens known as the suldordan, more coloquially known as "wool worms." As word of the community has spread, more have come to call the settlment their home.Be forewarned traveller. Our doors are open to you for this night, but on the morrow be on your way. We are not fond of outsiders.
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