Silverlight

**Silverlight is a city hidden deep in a forest, guarded by Goddess of Life, Ara Noname. Silverlight is part of the nation of Althalos, watched over by Goddess of Magic, olothus. People of many backgrounds live in Silverlight. Some peacefully, others not as much.**

Founded by A r a, a young half Evarian Elf that wandered into a forest filled with silver magical light. She decided to live there. Being new to Maria, she set out to learn all she could about it.

People soon came to settle in the area, creating a small town that honored the forest. Rather than destroying the forest the residents built their homes in naturally occuring clearings, cutting down as few as possible and planting more.

Eventually, she build a temple to honor the dieties of Maria, and an Academy to gather the knowledge of the world. During the first Academy's construction a silver crystal was- half elf broke off part of it to create a staff that she would use to aid her descovery of new magic.

Unbekownst to her the small shards from the first break fell off her clothes as she walked into the forest; there they slowly grew. Until one day a large section of the land was ripped from the earth and left floating in the sky. The crystals had grown so numerous in one place they took the land with them. This continued, filling the skies with floating islands.

One day in the center of the Academy a dark crystal appeared. The magic holding the academy up was slowly sapped away from it. With one foolish action of half elf had touched the crystal in hopes to move it. As soon as her skin touched the stone, she could feel the magic being ripped from her body. She pulled back as fast as she could (faster than any human) but that slight touch had been enough to nearly drain her of all her magic. She collapsed upon the floor and passed out, too weak to move away. When she came to, it took all her strength to move back to her room.

It was many months before she was able to walk about fully, and many years before she had recovered her magic. At the end of that time the dark crystal just vanished from the Academy. A blessing that came too late, the academy practically in ruins. It had been built and maintained purely with magic and years of the dark crystals' presense had sapped it all away, leaving much of the building collapsed. The academy ruins were town down and anything that could be saved was salvaged from the wreckage.

So began the new construction of the academy, this time with greater structuaral support as to avoid such an incident ever again. Halfway through the constructione dark crystal was reportedly seen in the south desert with a corpse. The conclusion made was that one brave soul had moved the crystal even as it sapped away their magic and their very life. Realizing the crystals were dangerous, she decided to isolate the forest from the world so they could not continue to spread so easily.

A new project began. One that would surround the forest in a man-made ocean creating a salt water barrier. Not long after the academy was finished, the town recieved many new residents. Rooms in the town began running out so another project began underground to create a space for more housing and shops. The ocean project recently finished and the cave project continues to this day.