Independent Sanctuary Sonne

## Sanctuary Sonne

The Independent Sanctuary Sonne popularly called simply Sonne was a free city located in the middle of a desert. This desert is located in the Eastern Sea and is far from the main continent. The Sonnians wore long and wide robes, made of noble fabrics. These are ideal to make life in the desert as pleasant as possible, as they protect from the sun and it is always airy underneath them. Shaped by the culture of the Sonnians, they were in striking colors, with different patterns and are a wonderful contrast to the monotonous sand. When traveling, theywore both armor and over this Brown Coats with a large hood over their robes. These protected them from the unusual cold and their identity from the outside world. Since Sonne long preferred to live in peace hidden from the public, there were many prejudices about the inhabitants of this nation. Many normal citizens considered them to be ordinary sandmen who lead an equally simple life. The few who had the privilege of visiting the city tell of a special culture as well as magnificent buildings. The Sonnians were a very educated and tolerant people, but also proud, thoughtful and hypocritical. Unlike other nations, they had no ideology about the perfect race and believe that diversity and variousity were part of a healthy world. For this reason, the Sonnians were not classifiable as a race. Much more the belief in vision and moral values made an individual a citizen of Sonne. The fact that so many scholars lived in the sun is due to the sheer infinite literature and the great collection of knowledge that the Sonnians had accumulated over time. They studied in the large library of the Sonnians, which contained the building itself, as well as numerous lesser-known underground compartments. However, the Sonninans believed that it is not a competition to the large library in Valeris. Rather, it were to be an interesting and completely unequal complement to it.

## Soul Hunter Conflict

While being very educated and tolerant, the Sonnians deemed Soul Hunters as a great threat, with the only reason being pure fear. Being well aware that the Soul Hunters amassed greater power in battle, they chose to use their words as their sword and shield. They successfully painted the Soul Hunter Pontelicious, who was leader at the time, to be an evil mastermind. They spread this misinformation in order to gain the trust of the other nation and to potentially make them gather up against the Soul Hunters. This all led up to Pontelicious drinking the Potion of Madness, which turned him into a mindless monster. When this happened, Leandoer (the former leader of Sonne) called upon his people to cover all entrences in their town with cobblestone, to hide behind. But it did not protect them against Pontelicious and Sassparo, who slaughtered them all. Pontelicious had turned into what they purposefully wanted to portray him as; a monster.

## The Sonnian Plague

After the incident with the Soul Hunters, people started to see the hypocrisy and ways of the Sonne Leader Leandoer, which caused him and his followers to become politically cornered. As no one no longer deemed them as a potential ally, they were slowly disconnected to all other nations. Slowly, they all began to decrease in numbers due to a terrible plague that struck the Sonnians, killing most of them.

## Current Whereabouts

No one really knows if Leandoer, and his most faithful servant Phantagor, survived the plague. Some believe they are in fact alive, due to the nature of their cowardness; that they simply left their people to die from the plague to ensure their own survival.

There are murmurs and whispers that they are thriving together somewhere in the cold mountains of the North, but this is unconfirmed.