Monolith

The town of Monolith lies on the horizon outside the city of Carthacht in the province of Arthair of the Vairedanian Empire. During The Unwritten Age and all the way up to The Age of War and The Forgotten Age the town of Monolith was not a town at all. Instead, it was the palace of the royal family of Arthair as Carthacht was its capital. Unfortunately, during the Age of War, the palace was destroyed and buried and after the unification of the Vairedanian Empire the Arthair's were no longer the royal family and did not need the palace. The family ended up moving to Carthacht proper to help the city rebuild and the palace was all but forgotten. That is until the middle of The Age of Heroes when one of the descendants of the Arthairian royal family, Ailbhe Arthair, decided to move and settle on the hill that now covered her family's ancestral home. Ailbhe, along with friends and family founded the town of Monolith on that hill and named it after the single adamantine spire from the old palace that remains above the dirt. The Arthairs that moved to Monolith with Ailbhe also created the Arthairian Adventuring Academy, a school meant to train new generations of heroes and adventurers to help lead Vylderaine out of the dark times of the Age of War and the Forgotten Age. Nowadays, the town has grown larger and mostly survives from the tourists attracted to Carthacht and the remnants of the Arthairian royal palace that has been partially unearthed enough to give tours. The Arthairian Adventuring Academy still stands as well and draws prospective students from all over the Vairedanian Empire and beyond.