Therennia Adar, also known as Walldeep, was and is one of the most remarkable cities in the world.
About
Starting as a speck of civilisation nestled amid the great Groves of Adar, originally with no wall and the transition from avenues to wooded winding paths was not obvious.
The Celestians walked those paths, too, in the days when they were whole. Their otherworldliness did not ward them against the entrancing beauty of the wild ways; the hidden grove, the secret pool.
The Spire of Ages struck up from the heart of Therennia Adar above it all, an icon of triumph hundreds of feet high.
Therennia Adar now sits hundreds of feet below sea level, yet it did not drown. This is because of the sacrifice made by great Valandor. He stood before the onrush of the deadly waters as they hungrily devoured the shining groves. The streets thundered with the flight of forest creatures and the air was thick with the roaring of the waters. Valandor stood fast before them, pitting all his might and will against the devouring tide. Soon the earth shook, and a great rumbling drowned out all sound as Valandor tore a great wall up from the earth; a vast curtain of rock that spared Therennia Adar from the fate shared by so much of Elvenholme. His might spent, Valandor fell from atop the wall to the churning waters below.
Today neither wind nor sun strikes the city streets, casting the vast majority of Therennia Adar in perpetual gloom, always in the shadow of the greatest wall outside dwarfendom.
Only the very tip of the Spire of Ages from the old city peaks above the wall, the final resting place for the body of Valandor.
The people of Therennia Adar have thrived, despite the shadows, reclaiming their heritage and becoming a great maritime superpower of the world, with the people of the old Western Kindred finding new life in their bond with the ocean.
On the waves, the Warfleets of Therennia Adar are unmatched and there are few states that would dare molest the trading ships of the Sea Kindred.
King Ariandaris of the Sea Kindred, is known all across the world for his great foresight and statesmanship, forging bond with other kingdoms that no other kindred of elves can hope to.
Humans and even dwarfs are no strangers to the elegant docks and moorings atop the great wall, though they seldom progress further toward the city proper than to raise a toast to the spire and Valandor. The view of Therennia Adar from the wall’s edge gave birth to its vulgar name, popularly used in the realms of men: Walldeep.
Still, the sorrows of the past run deep. Many elves of Therennia Adar, including Ariandaris, are practitioners of the divinitive arts, slipping into trances where their spirits walk free of their bodies out beyond the great wall.
Walldeep School of Anatomy is based here.
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