Animus

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== Summary==
Animus is a ghost town, perhaps in the most literal sense; the original founders, and many of the other dragons in the clan, have died (technically, kind of). However, they're not actually dead anymore, so there's room for argument.
==History== 
Animus originated with experiments conducted to see if different types of magic could be combined. The five experimenters (Vicindi, Veksa, Diana, Andromeda, and Lavinia) are often considered the founders of Animus, but the town was not purposefully founded. Instead, it was formed as more and more dragons found their way to the site of the experiments and set up houses, and eventually a legal system of sorts. 
When the experiments concluded, the town stayed, but Lavinia and her charge, Taurus (who was Diana and Andromeda's child) were the only remnants of the tests to stay permanently. Taurus became the town's judge. 
However, the town was eventually destroyed by a Shade-touched dragon who left only three survivors: Taurus, Lavinia, and a former town guard, a Skydancer called Sovera, who had fled when she came back from a patrol only to see the destruction that was being caused. 
After this incident, Lavinia, who was a powerful Arcane sorceress, cast a spell so that Animus would seem much deeper into the forest than it actually was, supposedly to contain any Shade-touch left in the town. 
Animus was almost completely abandoned, until Sovera, after a decade of wandering Sornieth, unexpectedly found herself back in the Starwood Strand. She eventually found Cloudrunner, Tempest, and Nimbus. 
They were unsure as to what happened- all had the same story of being in peril, blacking out, and waking up in the Starwood Strand. 
After some wandering they eventually discovered two things; the Lover's Rest, and the old village. 
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