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"Legend holds that long ago, a burning star fell from the heavens and crashed to the earth. It's light traced a path eastward across the daytime sky, brighter than the sun. When it struck, the deafening roar could be heard across all the lands. The curious set out to investigate, and what they beheld at the end of their journey astonished them all. A crater, larger than any city known, and at it's center a massive crystal spire. 

''These are the stories of our forefathers. The tales of the time before the founding. Before the Mad Emperor built his fortress at the spire's base and raised a vast city in the protection of the crater. ''

Before the fall...."

The meteor, an elongated splinter of crystal, crashed to earth in the far eastern wilderness, creating a massive crater surrounding the portion of it's bulk remaining above ground. The shard's impact broke into the land's natural water table, and fresh spring waters began to bubble up from around it's base, over time forming a lake that filled the floor of the crater ringing the spire. Time passed and eventually the site was discovered by explorers investigating the trail of light and explosion caused by it's fall. They looked upon it in awe, and word of the spectacle spread like wildfire, drewing travelers from far and wide. Recognizing it's defensive potential and otherworldly nature, the chieftan of a neighboring land relocated his entire tribe to the site. Soon, the bones of a new city were laid down. Over time, the city grew into a thriving metropolis, the tribe into an empire. The rich built luxurious wide avenued estates on the shores of the lake, while the less wealthy had to settle for plastered wood and trecherous staircases up the sides of the crater's walls. The truely unfortunate scavenged debris to scab together hovels on the upper walls, always one gust of wide from collapse, or dig out hideyholes right into the soil itself.