Kaune Lona (The Grave Reef)

Kaune Lona (The Grave Reef)
Artificial Reef	Artificial Reef
Location 	Andalusi Coast, Urma ear
Population 	<3000
Status 	Returned from Abyss
== Summary ==
A coastal city hidden among the sandy shore of Andalus, it was founded by Water Elves as a way to handle the after effects of a war over the small space. It was well known haven for clerics and necromancers as a safe way to experiment on new spells and healing experiments. It was thought lost to time and space due to being thrown into the abyss by the high council as a way to fight off the siege at it's doors.
== Life & Culture ==
Kaune Lona was created as a way to try and control what happens above can be used to benefit of those below, using the viscera of conflict as a productive source. They are also known as the body scavengers cause they use necromancy and life cleric abilities to keep a balance. A war kills 3 thousand people or wipe out a race, the people of the Grave Reef will take a large sum of those bodies as resources to the reef itself and the others might be resurrected if they can if not they will try and help the nearby areas in a way to help them get stable. What ever that actually means tends to vary. The most common is that they will pay money for the corpses and trade in knowledge from what they've learned over the span.
The statues that encircle the city are built after a great cleric or necromancer decides to take a true death or become a lich lord who then resides within the ravine of souls.
The clerics tend to take true deaths while the necromancers take a the route of arch-liches who are living off the life energy created by the ecosystem of the grave reef.
The Grave Reef abstains from most wars, having only gone to war once and basically after seeing the power they held and how bad that turned out (read entire destruction of a sentient race) they have decided to abstain and only act in ways to protect themselves. They have been sought out by those who want to use their power and most of the time they are capable of turning that person around and sending them to someone else cause they don't want to be on the other side and have everything they worked for destroyed.
Everyone born of the grave reef will go through testing for their first 50 years to see what they excel at, if it is to become one of the great necromancers that help progress the work of the dead or one of the great clerics who help to heal the city and grow the people. If these two end up not being your calling there are many other callings within that help maintain the city on a small scale. There are many families of the Grave Reef, but not all of them have last name titles, the Tidefall family stems from a great cleric who took the city through a time of rot plague, and strangely enough the Necromancer who caused it.