Ruins of Kur-Dnaad

Brief Description
The Cordonade mountains extend beyond the western shore of Loorou, dropping into the Mirrormere and forming a series of islands called the Maw. Unknown to all but the most specialised scholars, within the Maw are the ruins of Kur-Dnaad, the earliest-known and greatest settlement of the Lands. The ruling caste of Kur-Dnaad was known as the Archpriests and in their pomp, their power was said to rival that of the gods.

Even among scholars, almost nothing is known about the history of Kur-Dnaad or the reasons for its fall. Speculations abound, mostly centring around some vast ritual that went wrong. Scholars at the Arcaeum point to the nearby presence of the Mirrormere (a water body that has manifestly unnatural characteristics) and also various other unexplained phenomena within the Lands at large, to theorise that some vast undertaking of the Archpriests must have backfired, destroying their great city and leaving almost no trace of the civilisation of Kur-Dnaad.