Grajita

## Overview

Grajita is a walled Human city in the western Gryusch Wilds. Its location is nearly centered from Gryusch's northern and southern coasts, with the Grajita Mountainrange strafing it to the north, and the Magenti River flowing to its east.

Grajita is one of the first walled Human dwellings in Soly, founded a few hundred years after Widerain. It has a rich history of honoring "Stained" individuals, adorning them with bright pink hair dye. The city houses the rather large Grajita Combine, and the deepest crypt within the Gryusch Wilds that regularly houses deceased from other settlements as well.

## History

Grajita was officially founded in 2109 of the Pulsekaw Era, though its walls were already planned, and the foundation was in place. This suggests the area was inhabited for some time prior. A Human man known as Gaivin was the architect behind the city's walls, and one of its original founders.

In the late-Pulsekaw Era, the Jaanpai Organization assumed one of the Humans dwelling within Grajita had reached The Soaring, which was strictly monitored after the Eighth Soaring occurred under their watch. In swift retaliation, the Pulsekaw attacked Grajita with some amount of force. However, in the skirmish, the supposed Soaring Human took part in the battle, much to the Jaanpai's surprise. Once this was discovered, a truce was quickly called to end the bloodshed. In recompense for the lives lost in the misunderstanding, the Pulsekaw constructed a building within Grajita in their own architectural style.

Grajita was hit somewhat hard by the rampaging first generation of Foreckaw, when they were born in the early days of the Human Era. These conflicts spawned the first legends of the Stained, fierce blond warriors who would return home covered in blood, staining their hair a faded pink color to differentiate them from the rest of the more meek and supporting soldiers. The prejudice against the Foreckaw would forever be influenced by these conflicts.

When the battles within the Soil War began to increase in frequency and intensity, Grajita was one of few Human cities not vying for control over the Mint Gardens, instead opting to become a hub city, housing Stained mercenaries for hire to any generals interested in bolstering their forces. This brought Grajita and its occupants some deserved fame, and more importantly, peace from the Human's internal conflicts. Grajita was viewed as a safe haven for a few centuries before the Formea Wyrm Crisis ended the mystique of safety surrounding the city. As Grajita relied on a waterway system beneath the city for a time, it was quickly corrupted by the Formea Wyrms. The crisis hit Grajita perhaps harder than any other active Human dwelling, forcing residents to repurpose the waterway into a makeshift crypt, which would only grow deeper and fuller by the year, expanding into the Gryusch Tunnels around the city's soil.

Expedition teams were formed to make regular journeys to the Magenti River once it was learned that the Wyrms wouldn't survive in running water. This tradition, as well as further expeditions for various resources, would become essential to the survival and independence of Grajita.

The Pulsekaw structure looming within the city was purchased outright by the Minthunt Combine in the year 2239 of the Human Era. The building would become the headquarters for an arm of the Combine, known as the Grajita Combine. Not much is known about the operations undertaken by the Combine once the exchange was made, except that there weren't many, and they had mostly resigned themselves to waiting and studying.

The Solam Burst Crisis would hit Grajita in 2251, which Wonder and her group would openly stop and become hailed as heroes within the city, despite the oddity of having Foreckaw roam freely within for the first time in its history.

## Notes

* Cove referred to the old Pulsekaw building as a "church" before being purchased by the Minthunt Combine. It is likely that, at least for some time, it was used as a shrine for followers of the Eighth Soaring, or Akkaz.

## Important Figures

* Tribute, leader of the Grajita Combine.
* Fluster, daughter of Tribute and second in command for the Grajita Combine.
* Oppose, elected mayor and face of leadership within the city.
* Hoax and her brother Jaded, the two Stained captains of the Grajita Guard.
* Arrive, leader of the Grajita Expedition forces
* Dried, Cryptkeeper and informant to the Grajita Combine.
* Basin, local blacksmith in charge of nearly all equipment production.
* Grip, dedicated medic of the Grajita Guard.
* Cove, inheritor of the fence outpost located just outside of Grajita's walls.