Mesrateh

Rising from the sands 50 miles from Qaragun, Mesrateh once stood as the largest city in the Basaami Empire, and for a single shining moment it also served as its capital. But that time was fitfully brief, and Mesrateh was swallowed up by the desert before the collapse of the empire.
Built in the eastern deserts, away from the fertile valley of the Basaam River, Mesrateh owed its existence to a particularly unconventional source of water. While few records from the period shed any light on this particular facet of the old capital, the residents of Mesrateh had ready access to unnaturally pure water. Many Basaamologists agree that the text likely refers to a massive desert aquifer deep below the sands, divined and accessed by alchemy or thaumaturgy now lost and waiting rediscovery. However, a minority suggest that the city's water arrived by way of an immense and purely mechanical device that drew the water up from an incredible depth.
Regardless, at some point prior to the collapse of the empire, probably around 1000PC, the water supply began to ebb, and over the next century failed to match the city's needs, eventually necessitating its abandonment. By the year 880PC, Mesrateh was completely abandoned.
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