Antomur

Antomur, the Old Capital

***Antomur*** (pronounced /ɑːntoʊmʊər/), also known as The Capital of Ruin. It is the previous capital of Conamar. It is located on the northwest coast, north of the city of Venerage. Currently it is led by the Lord Mare. It is famous for being the previous capital city, that was destroyed by the spread of the disease Tomb Blight and is now often referred to as a ruin.

## Description

### Geography

The city itself sits on the on the slope of a bay on the north coast of Conamar, as if it were slowly sliding into the water. Surrounded now by untamed forests, it is difficult to realise when the city really starts. The place is cold and damp, beaten by the cold winds off the sea and driving rain through most of the year. Some say it is as if nature itself were trying to bury the old city.

Whilst the terrain slopes towards the sea, the slope isn't steep enough to struggle usually. However if one lingers for too long, the streams of rainwater passing by have a strange pulling sensation, almost dragging you toward the maw of the bay.

### Architecture

Antomur once grandly showed the old style of Conamar, the buildings grand and complicated. The streets began twisting in on themselves, each with their own character and story to tell.

Unfortunately, the driving rain and neglect have slowly stripped the buildings of personality, eroded into identical monoliths. The twisting streets are no longer intriguing, instead vexing. A web now trapping pedestrians.

## Society

### Demographics

Antomur has become a city for the nowhere to go, mostly filled with refugees and the destitute. Because of this unlike quite a lot of other places in Conamar especially, you can find a population of Vitrumon. The others who live there usually have some experience with the sea, or are somehow adapted to the miserable weather. The more destitute live in either the Ruins District or the Refugee District. The people with a larger sum of Vial Echoes now reside within or near the Palace District. Despite this, most residents - even the richer ones - still look like they are trying to get away from the city at any opportunity.

## History

The city of Antomur was assumedly founded a long time ago, longer than records document. It is assumed the location was created in worship to some long forgotten God, due to old religious iconography found when digging new foundations.

### *Tomb Blight Plague*

In 874 - Strife Era, the disease known as Tomb Blight earned it's first victim within the city of Antomur. The disease started to spread within the Cemetery Fields, amongst the coroners and undertakers. Spreading incredibly quickly within the city, it wiped out a large portion of the population before the then ruler, King Namare, could give any guidance to his people. Before long the city was mostly emergency hospitals and clinics, every prayer in the city being sang out by clerics - only to mix with the cries of the soon dead. The prayers would continue when the crying started to die, but they were never answered. Soon they too would also fall silent. The capital of a country did not go down in huge flame or in rivers of blood, but with prayers going silent.

### *Red Deus' Introduction*

In 914 - Strife Era, the cure *Red Deus* was introduced to Conamar, it wasn't until its prolific success and the establishment of the "Red Era", that people started to return to the remains of an empty Antomur. The city was still littered with the rotting deceased, with showing evidence of some wild animals try to feast on them only to succumb to the disease themselves. But mostly it seemed nature was unwilling to reclaim the dead. It was, on most points, decided that the only way to resolve this was to set them aflame. The bodies were gathered on mass and the workers became known as "Tomb Matches". They created huge bonfires to toss the bodies to the flames, and the streets and courtyards of the city still sport these scorch marks upon the stones. One of the few things in the city that refuses to wash away. It was noted during this work that some buildings seemed to have large colonies of the blight. The theory developed was that the bodies, having been piled together, had slowly all been consumed by the blight and the rot had all congealed into large identical piles over the decades. The investigation soon showed this had become an analogy for the entire city: the individual stories of the buildings becoming one. One of every single soul in Antomur being consumed by blight.

Nowadays the effect of *Red Deus* still does not seem to be having a positive affect within the city. The denizens of the city are mostly destitute, usually attempting to consume the small remnants of *Red Deus* from the *Vial Echoes* before getting the chance to spend them - not there was much to spend them on. The city is still empty, people find work slinging what they can find or by doing odd jobs for people, usually hard labour. There is still no signs of the city being able to produce anything, and the reputation of the city means most traders would rather land anywhere else.