Aarb

Aarb was a city or city-state in southeastern Orithea, somewhere along the northern coast of the Saulean Sea, during the archaic period. It was destroyed in the titanic upheavals at the end of the Schism Wars and where exactly it stood is not known today, partially because some lands sank into the seas or were torn apart by terrible earthquakes during that catastrophe; the pre-Schism coastlines of the Sarpic Seas were not identical to their current shape. In addition, the shores of the Saulean Sea were mostly swept clean by the tsunamis of the Great Cataclysm much later, so even if some trace of Aarb remained after the Schism Wars, it probably would have been obliterated by those terrible waves. 
Aarb is famous as the city where the prophet Tarquenus delivered his revelation, attracted his early followers, and first preached the worship of the Rhantaseppa. He and his disciples were subsequently chased out of the city in an episode which saw a large number of the first Rhantashanis slaughtered by mobs, or captured and executed or imprisoned by the Aarbish authorities.
Category:Cities and Towns