Gunggum

Gunggum

**Gunggum** is a town in the northwest of Plagos. It was found and settled by Jokarva in late October, and became the first seat of the confederacy of Plagatéa right after its founding. In present day, Gunggum is again apart of the Plagatean Empire, but is no longer the Capital. Gunggum is now a town of the Seivijiā province of the Empire, governed by Shigetada Futushu.

## History

The northwest of Plagos used to be settled by a race of which little is known about today - the Quartz people. Their name came from the fact that they were able to grow trees which would bear quartz, and would thus use this as their building material. Gunggum was founded on the ruins of an old Quartz people city, and the town hall was built on one large circular base of quartz. Eastern Scholars point its founding to the Ukorii, an ancient group from centuries ago before they resettled the area when Jocarvas began settling the area.

### Early History

In late November, Jocarvas, a citizen of Junea, Escharia, had a conflict with the mayor who falsely accused him of killing him and stealing some items. Jocarvas was narrowly escaped and fled to the north of Plagos, where he stumbled upon a massive sphere of water floating above a hill top, with a small forest of quartz next to it. He founded Gunggum on December 22. The city would become an important as it would become one of the main cities in the first Plagatean state. It would eventually be incorporated into the first Empire of Escharia, as the capital of Nordumer province which stretched over most of Plagos. Following the Ascension, the site would also fade into irrelevance before being covered by sands and the land absorbed into Goshuma.

### Re-discovery

This was the last that was known about Gunggum until March 12th. An Arinovlan citizen on a cartography expedition known as SerfBort\_ rediscovered the site and took an interest in it. After completing his expedition told others around Plagos of a long lost city of the Plagateans, he resolved to return there and dig out the site in order to discovered what lay underneath the mountains of sand. He brought with him curlyfries\_64 and a couple volunteers coming later in the excavation, those being Thyfuto and prnghat11.

The first signs of civilization visible through the mountains of sand was a path of polished andesite on the eastern side of the site and a canal system leading to Tengaesal the capitol of Goshuma on the western side. As excavation continued a canal into the site itself was discovered, a boathouse and a home were unearthed. A previously buried path leading upwards produced the entrance to a large meeting room, It was speculated that this was the site where the heads Plagatean Confederacy would meet formally to discuss matters of state. As excavations reached its climax the temple of Sylene itself was uncovered detailing the backstory of the city and instructions of a ritual done by the temple.

What once was indistinguishable from desert was converted by the end of the excavation to the Flower Forest that it truly was underneath. At the conclusion of the excavation, it was reported that its owners in Goshuma never utilized the site and had no plans to. With that revelation SerfBort\_ petitioned the leader of Goshuma to annex the abandoned city along with a path to Arinovlan land. Goshuma graciously gifted Gunggum to Arinovla free of charge.

### Present day

New\_Prometheus, a player in the Plagatean Empire, bought Gunggum from SerfBort\_ in October 2021 and continued it's vast expansion; the removal of the quartz village and meeting hall became his first pregorative, and so he acquired the assistance of a talented builder and political activist, EarthlyWorlds. They, together, joined House Shigetada and reformed Gunggum into a Plagatean beauty.

Still under construction to this day, a large castle rises high in the centre of the town with the hallmark Plagatean architecture found in the various settlements across Plagos. Alongside the castle in the centre, a small hamlet sprawls out along the western half beside the gatehouse, and a moat of spikes sits just below the exterior. Running through the centre of the town is a river, originating from far South and following all the way up to Tengaesal, the Capitol of Plagatea.

Gunggum is now the seat of House Shigetada, a noble family in the Plagatean aristocracy originating from the original Shogunate.

## Gallery

The site of Gunggum before the excavation.Gunggum after the excavation.Unearthed bathhouse.The Meeting Room when first excavated.Gunggum village in December 2021.Gunggum and Tengaesal, just blocks apart.Gunggum castle.