Fel Sadanis

**Fel Sadanis** was a city located near the borders of the Democratic Kingdoms of Ekrustia and separated from the Empire of Adamant by the Badlands to the south-west. The place is 100 leagues (500km) away from any coast.

## Overview

Fel Sadanis was a walled-in city with four Watch garrisons, and an underground lair (The Fells). The Sadanis, a major river, flows northwards partly through the city but mostly just aside of it, enabling an impressive sewer system and docks connecting the spot to trade, and also providing fish. Near one of the bridges there was a public bathhouse. The Guild and the Bank both had a presence in the city, the latter operated also the ancient teleportation pad that was another trade connection. Fel Sadanis had various districts, some poor and some wealthy, with verious locales likes inns and taverns for the locals. There is not much of an organized criminal underworld to be found, although there are quite a few thieves and shady businessmen. Laborers from the city could find occupation as farmhands on the estates of landed nobles and wealthy merchants all around the city, although the nobles mostly kept to themselves; but there was also subsistence farming and milling in the farms and villages of the wider area. The forests were managed closer to the city: the Watch didn't tolerate wild lumbering.

### Population count

At the time the city was taken from the Watch, it had about 20,000 inhabitants by Rain's estimate.

There were several high-ranking awakened, most importantly 37 Sentinels of the Watch (only 18 of them were inside the city, the rest patrolling outside during Westbridge's coup). Due to the imminent war, the Bank had kept only a single high-ranking enforcer around, guarding the Bank's vault. The Guild was represented by Halgrave as the only gold-plate individual in the city; there were also four silver-plate adventurers of the Guild around (Feddek, Pemmin, Olani and Khurt), none of them even close to achieving gold: both Lavarro and Ameliah had departed shortly before the attack. Among the half that remained in the city, there were about a hundred Bronze-rank Watch officers, and around 50 Bronze-rank Guildmembers, the majority of both groups actually below level 15. Another hundred notable residents were nobles, although it remained unclear how many were awakened. That sums up the total number of awakened that had lived in Fel Sadanis roughly between 350 and 450.

## History

Fel Sadanis is a few thousand years old, having been once a part of the Majistraal. From those times, the most powerful remains are the Majistraal Obelisk buried deep below the city, and a single teleportation pad in a secure part of the city, operated by the Bank. The Fells are rumored to be even older than the city above said lair.

Fel Sadanis was, at the start of the story, under the governance of The Watch, and considered valuable to them due to the presence of The Fells, an 11 level lair. The Watch used it to awaken new members, then leveling those officers up in secretly maintained dungeons within the nearby Badlands. Another institution to the city, albeit the poorest and least influential one, was the Guild, operating under Halgrave, the only gold-plate adventurer in a wide radius, and dutifully executing the burden he was entrusted with.

### During the story (spoilers)

Once considered by most of the world to be rather unimportant, even a backwater, Fel Sadanis became a strategic target in the war between the DKE and the Empire simply due to its location and its connection to the teleportation network. The Empire wished to use the city as its staging point of an invasion of the DKE; and the only way the DKE had to prevent this from happening was seizing the city.

In the same winter that Rain arrived in the world, Citizen Westbridge induced Lady Velika Vekuavak as „Citizen Sadanis“ and activated the old Majistraal barrier as a means of locking out the Empire while giving Velika time to prove herself as worthy of being a DKE Citizen. The city then fell due to several factors: The Watch rebelled against Velika who in turn reigned irresponsably despotic; an attack of the Empire failed due to the barrier; and worst of all a huge regional Rank Shift occured, even giving trouble to the Awakened.

After the first night of the Shift, in which one third of the cities' population died, the Watch evacuated all of the city except for a quarter that included the Southern Watch Garrison, the Southern Gate, and a portion of the river. The remaining residents of the city assembled there - among the abandoned parts of the city were the Guild and the noble's residences. Only the Bank stronghold remained untouched in the wealthy quarter, but no refugees were allowed inside.

### Citadel Sadanis

After Rain helped to bring the situation under control, he founded Ascension and left Fel Sadanis, while the city remained reduced just to a Watch Stronghold and a light perimeter in which monsters could be kept at bay. Now protected by the old Majistraal barrier however, the Warden of the Watch shifted lots of resources towards Fel Sadanis to make it a *Citadel* of the Watch, with no non-Watch-affiliated personnel allowed inside of the barrier. The bulk of the surviving population of the previous city was evacuated into the DKE.

Due to the Shift, Fel Sadanis became at least partly a Level 11 ranked area, but the level might have changed further afterwards. The area became element-attuned to the Chemical aspect, and slowly turned into a landscape of swamps, and fungus-overgrown mushrooms replaced the dying and dead trees.

The **Citadel** of Fel Sadanis was destroyed on 26th Breaking 3060 by the Empire, likely in an attack led by Fecht himself. The resulting Earthquake sent shockwaves that were felt even in Vestvall, about 200 km away. It is yet unknown if the barrier stone or the teleporting platforms survived the destruction, given that Majistraal artifacts are known for being nearly indestructible. However, all non-reinforced structures were completely flattened, and a large crater surrounded the former barrier that was breached. The future place of Sadanis will sit in the middle of a huge and deep lake, once the Sadanis river will have filled the crater that surrounds the Fel Sadanis Mesa.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 166
2. ↑ Chapter 110
3. ↑ Chapter 75
4. ↑ Chapter 93
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 72
6. ↑ Chapter 76
7. ↑ Chapter 100
8. ↑ Chapter 103
9. ↑ Chapter 112
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Chapter 167
11. ↑ Chapter 165