Oneir

**Oneir** the **City of Mirrors** is a large autonomous city state inbetween Hazyr and Thel'Darion. Oneir is a deeply magical place with no concrete physical appearance as every person who enters the City of Mirrors sees a completely different city, some may see a dark hellish place and others a beautiful sprawling paradise. The city appears to every visitor in an entirely unique way with no two visitors seeing the same city before them. Oneir is one of the seven Great Cities of Moro.

## History

### Discovery

Oneir was never built by any extant race and instead it was discovered with it being believed to have existed long before intelligent civilization on Moro, possibly during the Age of Beasts in the 2nd Epoch. The city itself according to the best knowledge from The Illusio Arcane has not always been in the place in which it now lies. The Arcane believe Oneir was once located somewhere on the lost continents of Trea, possibly on Luminos.

During the turning of the 5th Epoch knowledge around what happened to the previous inhabitants is unknown and the first rediscovery of Oneir began in 132 5E when Haziri travellers first resettled the city. When they first resettled unusual damage was found in the city, unfitting with the fiery desolation of the end of an epoch. Large pools of strange arcane energy were found having corroded the soil in which the city is settled that is wholly alien to Moro. The Illusio Arcane struggle to understand who first built or settled Oneir and the nature of it arriving on Moro.

## Organizations

### ***The Maiden's Makers***

Constructing a building in the City of Mirrors is like nothing anywhere else. In a regular city, plans are drawn up, materials supplied, labourers gathers and work done. However, due to the difficulties with coordinating a workforce who all see a different city is quite difficult and totally impossible. So instead buildings on Moro are not constructed but rather dreamt into existence.

Dreamers in service to the Maiden of Dreams Meriala convene when a building has been commissioned and use their powers bestowed upon them by Meriala herself to enter the world of dreams. Inside the world of dreams, The Maiden's Makers scour the ever-changing and strange lands of mortal's dreams to find a building that suits the commission. Inside the world of the dreaming when they find a suitable building once entering the building the other side will bring them out of their slumber and bake to the waking world as they awake inside the new building, with the new building appearing seamlessly into every visitor's view of the City of Mirrors.

### ***The Eyes of Oneir***

The Eyes of Oneir is a guild of artists dedicated to depicting their personal version of the City of Mirrors. Their artwork is some of the most revered and desired pieces of artwork on Moro with kings and emperors coveting a unique slice of the artist's vision of Oneir. Their pursuit of art is not merely replication but interpretation as they believe the physicality of each individual's view of Oneir reflects their personality, soul, memories and place in the world. Much like The Illusio Arcane, despite differing methods, the Eyes of Oneir also seek to understand the nature of the City of Mirrors in their art.

The Eyes of Oneir operate out of The Hollow a famous building in Oneir due to it being subject to many artists' works as they all share their personal view of their beloved guildhall. Some world renowned works depict this building such as 'The Dancing Dragon' a masterwork showing Master Painter Morso Esterian and his vision of The Hollow as a playful Bronze dragon. And 'The Hollow:Undone' which depicts The Hollow as a dark twisted mass of chains sprouting from the streets as seen by Master Painter Teshun Therae. Both are world-famous paintings each believed to reflect the lives of two deeply different personalities.

### ***The Illusio Arcane***

   The Illusio Arcane strive to understand the magical secrets of the city, its origin and further understanding of the Illusion school of magic. The Illusio Arcane manages the city's strange libraries which hold the minute tracks of knowledge about the city and the nature of its magic. The Illusio Arcane works closely with the Moren Tir University to understand the city to its greatest extent. The Illusio Arcane frequently conducts interviews and tests to see if there is any correlation between the visitor and how the City of Mirrors appears to them.

The most alluring secret The Illusio Arcane seek to uncover is the secret of The Obelisk, the only building in the city which appears to all visitors the same. The towering black monolith, featureless and inaccessible has never been entered despite persistent attempts. The last entry attempt in 1194 5E resulted in a strange magical anomaly that disrupted all magic in the city causing all inhabitants of the city to age an estimated 222 years resulting in thousands of deaths.