Baaset

Baaset was the largest city of the Basaami Empire until its population was ravaged by plague in the distant past. The city never fully recovered, and in the wake of its loss - said to have been upward of 60 percent of the population - Baaset was slowly abandoned by the surviving population and given up to the desert. Much of its stigma, however, was removed a few decades later when the priesthood established a major temple and consecrated the city in the memory of the murdered dead, setting aside the abandoned sections of Baaset in their honor. The abandoned half of Baaset remains a ruined but oddly serene counterpart to a resurgent city. In the past thousand years the living section of the city has expanded and the abandoned part is now less than a fourth of its overall area. Unlike the graveyards in Siul, the walled-off sections of Baaset are only partially accessible, and given that their contents remain largely untouched due to local stigma and subsequent desert encroachment, the treasures of the deceased quarter are targets for adventurers who gain the blessing of the still powerful Old Basaami clergy.
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Category:Ruins of the Basaami Empire