Nepthyas

City of The Abyss -- City of Fishes -- Underwater City

## About

*The City of Nepthyas*. The capital of the seas.

Nepthyas is an underwater city.

The city is half underwater and half on the coast.

Nepthyas was built by mermen but refugees from all over the world came here, running away from their original habitats. Nepthyas is built from 3 main layers of the city, The Upper layer which is called **Clam Heights**.

The middle layer is called **Fathom**.

And the bottom layer is a mysterious unexplored area that is called **The Abyss**.

Nepthyas is a massive city, a capital that is located on a beach and underwater alike. It has a large population and is multicultural.

Nepthyas is under a serious case of racism but everyone keeps quiet about it and ignores it as it’s normal.

There are 2 leaders in this city, one for each populated layer, for the **Calm Heights** and for **The Fathom**. Each individual leadership with different cultures.

Crime and terror attacks happen quite a lot, considering the underground racism.

The wealth of Nepthyas is low, since most people there are refugees.

**Calm Heights** district is made out of resources from the area, such as sandstone, sand, shells, calms, pearls, corals and seaweeds

And **The Fathom** layer is made out of underwater blue-grey colored rock, carved inside the coral reef.

Both layers have their landmarks.

**Calm Heights** have **The Lighthouse of Freedom**, which is a lighthouse that was built for coming refugees, so they can recognize this haven, knowing they are about to reach freedom

**The Fathom** has **The Whirlpool Trident**, which is a huge Trident statue located underwater, it can cause a whirlpool in order to defend the city from incoming siege or attacks from the backside (from the water).

The reputation of the city is high among the poor but low among the rich. Leaders of other cities hate this place because of both mermen AND for the fact that their people are leaving their own city in order to immigrate to Nepthyas.

Nepthyas is one of the five big cities that are called by the name “***The Exalted Nations***”, which means that it’s one of the old cities that were part of *The War of Soreenian*.

## Geography

### The districts

The city of Nepthyas is split into 3 main areas.

**Clam Heights** - The upper layer of Nepthyas, located on sea-level near the coast.

It is a city surrounded by a huge calm, acting like walls.

The calm is part of an ancient monster that died and got extinct long ago, but the calm itself somehow still functions and kind is of alive (The Calm part of the monster is independent).

The calm produces oxygen and some kind of glowing chemical that bait fishes come nearby.

The citizens of **Calm Heights** hunt the fishes that come to eat the chemicals of the calm.

**Fathom** The middle layer of Nepthyas, Located under **Calm Heights**, underwater. Nepthyas started with the **Fathom** layer, it is the original layer and it started expanding afterward.

In **Fathom,** mermen and mermaids are living.

**Fathom** is an underwater paradise, houses built inside this reef.

People here live from fishing and selling them to **Calm Heights** or the outside world.

**The Abyss** - considered the lowest layer of Nepthyas, but actually it’s not a real layer.

**The Abyss** is just the border of Nepthyas, a deep volcanic ravine underwater.

Not much is known of inside this ravine, but what is known is that there are some horrifying monstrosities that come from there sometimes.