Lost City of Amakeo
Lost cities are a staple of old myths and legends of the unexplored, wild places of the world, but none are as persistent and as oft-told as that of the Lost City of Amakeo.
For as long as anyone in the civilised parts of the world can remember tales have been told of this place, rumoured to lie deep within the cloud forest of the Drowned Jungle. Tales of a lost, gold-laden city with ornate, multi-story buildings, soaring stone arches and wide streets leading down towards an emerald lake.
Most of the tales agree that the city is some remnant of a great, lost civilisation. Certainly not the Antediluvians, who built their edifices close to the ocean, but some other, unknown race.
The Lost City of Amakeo is also rumoured to hold the famous Fountain of Youth, a mythical pool that will bless those who drink it's waters with life everlasting.
Scholars argue to this day whether the Lost City is a real place, or rather a metaphysical one - a metaphor for the need everyone has for some unobtainable place of paradise.
Yet belief that the City is real remains strong, so much so that the famed explorer Senia Kiren was inspired to lead her first expedition to find it. The expedition ultimately failed, and lost most of it's members to disease and predation, but the light of the City's promise remains undimmed in the minds of civilised people.
It is true that occasionally some strange object or relic will crop up in the markets of the world from some unknown and unexplained source, deep within the jungles of the east. Objects carved with frescoes showing a beautiful and alien city in the clouds.
The Lost City of Amakeo by Alayna Danner
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