Lasirath

Lasirath is an unstable floating island in Adea. Since its apparition, it has been breaking apart and crashing into itself, rendering the island an inhabitable island and forcing its previous inhabitants to leave everything behind or die.

Pre-dawn

The island of Lasirath is the remnants of a prairie area of Ashtara that had two towns and a river crossed through it. It had a nice breeze and smelt of all the flowers that used to grow in it.

Both towns used to work together, one focused on growing a wide variety of flowers to sell, and the other one focused on bees and honey.

The crossing of the void killed most plant life and with it, most cattle. The future island was still "attached" to a bigger landmass, and people mostly survived from the food they had saved up and from help from other closer towns, but a lot of rationing had to be done.

After the void

As the area left the void, it quickly broke into a few islands, Lasirath being the biggest island. The first few month, people in Lasirath tried to recover, planting whatever seeds they had left and merging both towns. They seemed to go well, and people started to get accustomed.

But that ended quick when, one week, the island started to break up. It wasn't too quick of a process but neither slow enough to not be noticed. People started to panic. Thankfully, or so they thought, the island stayed afloat and fairly together as the roots of the dead trees seemed to hold it together.

Above-cloud photo of blue skies by Taylor van Riper

For a few weeks, all seemed stable enough, but the inhabitants managed to get in contact with other islands and specially, with Aeria. But then the island started to crash with itself. The broken pieces of it started joining again, but parts of it joined too much, causing "fake mountains".

After this second event, people started working with Aeria to set down a Cloudraft so they could leave this place, but all attempts to set down a Cloudraft ended up as useless, as the land of the island was too weak and kept breaking under the pressure.

For the following few months, weekly groups of flying people from Aeria (together with flying people from Lasirath) worked to move as many people from the island to Aeria while the island kept breaking and crashing.

Nowadays, the island is inhabited, and the only thing that remains there are the ruins of the two old towns.

Dried soil by Paul Robert