Ruins of Antioch
The city of Antioch was named after Antiocham Solinius, an ancient Hyperborean trade official who first identified the cities of this region as being in a prime location for the development of specific commodities and goods and the expansion of trade, as a counterweight to the merchants of Khemit.
The city was built in a hilly area near an underground deposit of salt. Mining that salt was the basis for hundreds of years of prosperity until one day when a tremendous earthquake or possibly an explosion from somewhere in the mines rocked the city. It shook the foundations of the town and opened great rents in the earth. Much of the city literally crumbled into the salt mines below, and a huge portion of the population was killed. Many people simply fled, never to return. Eventually, a number of the more-determined survivors moved as a group farther into the hills to the little town of Peleth, where copper had recently been discovered. To this day, the Ruins of Antioch are avoided as extremely dangerous, although other earthquakes in the past two millennia could have settled the loose stone by now.
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