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====== The City of Wati ====== | ====== The City of Wati ====== | ||
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+ | ==== History ==== | ||
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+ | The City of Wati sits on a sandstone shelf at the confluence of the Asp and Crook rivers which provide it with building materials, rich farmland, and deep harbors sufficient to support a settlement three times its size. But even with its tenacious citizens, abundant fish and game, and thriving marketplaces fueled by the most important rivers in Osirion, Wati is forever a city better known for its dead than for its living. Behind sanctified walls, an entire quarter ofthe city quietly sits as a massive, urban tomb. Shops, schools, markets, and estates serve as eternal resting places for those lost to madness and disease. To manage such an immense project, the city's entire economy shifted to the industry ofinterment. Almost i,800 years after the necropolis' | ||
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+ | In -1608 AR, Pharaoh Djederet II ordered the construction of a grand city to mark the birthplace of the Osirion' | ||
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+ | But Wati's destiny was forever warped in 2499 AR, when the cult of Lamashtu unleashed the Plague of Madness among the city's thriving populace. Many of those whom the fever did not immediately kill were driven to murderous insanity, and within months, more than half the city had fallen in painful, anguished death. Most of the survivors fled Wati to make new homes elsewhere, but a stubborn minority remained behind, determined to reclaim their city. But even once the plague had run its course, their livelihoods collapsed as An and Tephu took overWati' | ||
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+ | It took almost halfa millennium for Wati's fortunes to reverse thanks to the church of Pharasma. With the tacit perm1ss10n of Osirion' | ||
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+ | The consecration ofthe city and its necropolis revitalized Wati, and though it never reclaimed its dominance among the cities ofthe south, over the next 1,700 years Wati grew until its necropolis-once more than half of the citytook up less than a quarter ofthe city's total area. Today, long after the necropolis' | ||
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