This jumbled mass of shattered stone lies to the south of the city, effectively
blocking travel. Its labyrinthine arroyos and twisting paths have never
been successfully mapped out, making the interior of this cracked mesa a
veritable maze of fractures, pits, caves, and cliffs. Geologists presume
that the areas famous formations must have been sundered by a prehistoric
earthquake - and the destruction extends even into the Alchera ocean, with
a tortured seafloor sprouting hundreds of tiny stone islands. Dangerous
reefs have doomed many a sailor to watery death in the area, but that only
made the ocean-side cliffs even more popular as a pirate hideout and staging
area. Even to this day, for anyone wanting to vanish without a trace, an
easy solution would be to stroll into Ekklesia. It is rumored that those
banished for powers abuse may have settled here, due to the rare rumbling
or mysterious flash of light that will emanate from within.
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