Ghegha
A long lost city from the Age of Mist on the far eastern coast of Solavin, the Shattered Continent where Solags Folly now sits. Ghegha served as the easternmost port for the First City, the sprawling metropolis crafted by Solag and his children in the center of Solavin. At the end of the Age of Light the city was bustling, broad streets suited for large cargo trains of goods acquired from the distant colonies on northern-eastern Herodus and expeditions from further exotic lands. It was a city of light, song and pleasure as a well regarded vacation spot from the First City. At this point in its lifespan the First City had grown nearly to Ghegha.
During the Shattering war it weathered several giant attacks but was able to throw them off with its vast fleet, taking huge losses and suffering massive damage each time however. By the cataclysmic end of the Shattering War, the city was a ghost of its former glory and almost entirely dedicated towards supplying the war effort in far off lands. Gone were the days of song and pleasure and in its place stood a grim, city with fortifications built over and around the previously beautiful vistas and parks.
The city survived the end of the Shattering war, though it was devastated. Much of the land around it was taken by the raging seas, the Pharos of Ghe being torn from the ocean floor and swept away into the whirling maelstrom that now spanned the ruined continent and cut off the continent of Keskad off from the world. With the city in ruins and now an island, the residents were forced to leave. They took what ships remained, cobbling together more from the wreckage and sailed in all directions that they could. These people would be absorbed by distant colonies on Yrevelan, Havra and Herodus while others sailed to the islands of Unwandt and Wanu where they formed their own distinct nations, the Un and Walaki. The refugees would pass down stories of Ghegha but on the northern continents, knowledge of the city would slowly fade.
For the Un and Walaki nations, Ghegha became an integral part of their mythos and religion and they have one of the more concrete oral traditions in the world regarding the First City and the human Diaspora.
Type
Large city
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