Corpse Cities

Corpse Cities are enormous, uninhabited cities abandoned by the Ancients or destroyed during the Collapse. It is unknown how many there are, and little is known about them, with no more than the very outer reaches ever explored or mapped. Any exploratory groups that enter frequently go missing, and no successful permanent settlement has ever existed in a Corpse City for more than a handful of weeks. Traversing corpse cities is often nightmarishly difficult, due to their mazelike construction and size, and few even dare enter, due to the superstition that swirls around them. The smallest corpse city is ten leagues across, while the largest and most distant are often the size of entire nations at tens or even hundreds of leagues across. The level of damage corpse cities have sustained varies widely, with some seeming only abandoned and intact, while others seem to have been burned or razed to rubble. They have all, however, remained preserved since the Collapse, ruined or not, untouched by erosion or vegetation. Indeed, even some ruins submerged in waterways have not been worn down at all by the water, seeming impervious to it. This has led some to assume that the cities must be built out of some unknown material, but pieces of rubble have been removed from the edges of the cities and found to be just normal brick and stone. No satisfying explanation has been found for this paradox, nor indeed any explanation for any other part of the cities existence, and most agree the cities to be best avoided.

Notable Corpse Cities

 * The Deohals
 * Potential corpse city in the Northern Shattered Lands