Curgant
“Mysterious Hyperborean ruins, unfortunately located just off the edge of the map.”
The ruins of the city of Curgantium, once the magnificent capital of the Hyperborean Empire, are found on the southern tip of the Mons Terminus, just southwest of Vermis. Now known as Curgant, the site is a vast desolation of broken stone, overgrown with strange flowers and long grasses. The history of the ruins dates back a thousand years to when the city was destroyed in the explosion of the Tower of Oerson, which housed the imperial throne. The inconceivable power of the blast and the subsequent conflagration utterly eradicated the city and gave rise to raging wildfires that devoured their way across the dry plains, killing countless more by flame and famine. Curgant is well known as a cursed place, and all give the ruins a wide berth. Rivermen passing down the Great Amrin past the ancient stone wharves of the city spit and cross their fingers to ward off bad luck. Many swear that the river waters around Curgant sometimes run red as blood or as black as night. No boat docks there even in the most inclement weather. It is unknown to the world at large that the sewers beneath Curgant are still intact and serve as the headquarters for the continent-spanning master thieves’ guild of vampires known as the Underguild.
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