The Deohals - Corpse Cities of the Hular

The original names of the three great Elder Cities that exist near the great plateaus have been lost to time, as have the events that befell the people there during the dark years of the Collapse. Unlike many other corpse cities, there are no overt signs of destruction, and the cities are strangely unharmed, even by over a thousand years of abandonment. The Hular people have such ancestral trauma over the events that transpired during the time they lived here that they will not speak of these cities, nor venture within leagues of them. They are mostly unmentioned places, but when whispered of in fear, they are called the Deohals, or the “grave of gods”. Each city is similar in size and architecture, and is about twenty leagues wide, much smaller than the great corpse cities of the far east and west. The only notable difference between the cities is that at the centre of one, the furthest from the plateaus, lies a ruined fortress, barely standing, blasted into ruin by some unknown power.

No grass grows in these cities, no plants will touch them, and snow never falls over them even in the harshest winter. They are too evil for nature to touch.