Xraza Fah'eslar

**Xraza Fah'eslar (relifica for *Lantern city*)** is a small settlement on the coast of the Elder Ocean, used most often as a travel stop between the rest of the Obsidian Wastes and the Elder Ocean caves.

## Xraza Fah'eslar

### Type

mining town and shrine (former), research post (current)

### Significance

mining town, travel outpost, archaeological site

### Other

originally called Qetisdeberst

The name comes from the most commonly used light source around the city (mine lanterns), given to most of the town being both ancient and new structures built with the purpose of mining void-ore from the cliffsides influenced by the pull of the Observer.

### History

The foundations of the town were laid sometime before the reign of the first Vitravnen as evidenced by the deep-rooted influence of the fish cult of the Observer and their relics, especially the shrine carved into the rock at the very shoreline of the Elder Ocean. Originally, the shrine was the only function of the city, and it did not serve as a settlement due to the nature of the Ocean itself, rather its frequent usage was purely religious.

During first Vitravnen's reign, many Void cults hid and abandoned their holy sites out of fear of them being uncovered and destroyed by the White Raven's agents, which effected this Void shrine as well as places like the Watcher's peak and Fog's Edge.

After the death of the first Vitravnen in the Era of Kalazakchi, the kalazakchi Faithintadenienx settled in the caves above the shrine and elected to make it into a city due to its remoteness and void-ore reserves, erecting a structure on the cliffside and naming it *Qetisdeberst* (relifica for Flightcliff). This city, due to mining operations, quickly spread to encompass the former shrine as well and the town quickly saw an influx of Observer worshippers, scientists and miners. Eventually it became one of the biggest cities created in the Era of Kalazakchi, massively influencing art and science especially though the formerly rather niche interest in and knowledge of the Observer and the Elder Ocean itself.

The arrival of the New Vitravnen's reign devastated the town, starting with the New Vitravnen's Ascension happening directly within Qetisdeberst, leading to a large amount of architectural damage, and eventually the sealing of the Observer and modification of the Elder Ocean to no longer be influenced by the Void as orchestrated by Andervarseya the Gravemaker on New Vitravnen's orders severed the town from its roots.

After the Vitravnen's sealing, the largely abandoned city lost most of its connections and only a few devouts and residents remain, thought there are attempts at breaking the Elder Ocean's artificial cave system's seal to restore Elder Ocean and the whole of the Obsidian Wastes to their former glory.

Very recent is the boom in deepwater exploration of the Elder Ocean cave system, popularized through common folk tales of horror alongside real scientific evidence of freak discoveries, like the many bizarre caves and the "true bottomless pit" aptly-named Dira (The Drop). This half-tourism-half-scientific endeavour expanded the city with new technologies from mainly Arumis' factories alongside the creation of a network of smaller stations leading into the cave system, which rely on Xraza Fah'eslar for supplies.