Seaside , called The City of Sails , was a coastal vacation city in southern Cyre , and now a ruin in the Mournland , lying on the shore of Kraken Bay . [1] [2] [3]
Description
Considered the most beautiful of the cities of a kingdom called Beautiful Cyre, Seaside was a place of good weather and sea breezes. There was a large port and long docks, and many open courtyards but few walls. Instead, the city had vast awnings, which gently lifted and flapped and creaked in the breeze, giving Seaside a ceaseless murmuring background sound. [2] Even during the Last War , the town was a popular vacation destination, known for its tranquility, though it was not as famous as Aundair 's Stormhome . [3]
History
Seaside is in fact one of the oldest settlements of Cyre, having flourished into a small but prosperous nation-state around Kraken Bay and expanding northward in the millennia before the Kingdom of Galifar conquered and incorporated it. [4] [note 1]
The town was destroyed during the Day of Mourning in 994 YK along with the rest of Cyre. [3] When the dead-gray mists rolled over the city, hundreds of people piled onto the docks and huddled there. Sailors out in the bay reported hearing a terrible keening sound. [note 2] But the mists stopped exactly at the shoreline, just feet from the closest citizens, and thus they narrowly survived. [2]
On the first day, a few folk ventured into the mist, and were killed the instant they stepped onto the land. On the second day, a few more folk, now desperate and grief-stricken, went after them, and were not harmed. Thus Seaside was the very first place of the new Mournland to be explored. But peculiarly, not a single body was discovered. [2]
Afterward, the Cyran people remembered Seaside as a symbol of peace and tranquility. [3]
Appendix
Notes
- ↑ Five Nations page 8 says the pre-Galifar name of Cyre was "Metrol", implying the nation began at the capital Metrol . It's possible there were two kingdoms, either concurrently or one after the other, or that it was renamed from Seaside to Metrol with a relocation of the capital.
- ↑ It is unclear if this keening sound is meant to be the crying people or some effect of the Mourning.
Appearances
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- Novels
- The Fading Dream
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bill Slavicsek , David Noonan , and Christopher Perkins (2005). Five Nations . ( Wizards of the Coast ), p. 79. ISBN 0-7869-3690-8 .
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Bill Slavicsek , David Noonan , and Christopher Perkins (2005). Five Nations . ( Wizards of the Coast ), p. 83. ISBN 0-7869-3690-8 .
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Keith Baker , Jeremy Crawford , & James Wyatt (2019). Eberron: Rising from the Last War . ( Wizards of the Coast ), p. 110. ISBN 0786966890 .
- ↑ James Wyatt , Wolfgang Baur , Ari Marmell (2007). The Forge of War . ( Wizards of the Coast ), p. 9. ISBN 0-7869-4153-7 .
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