Seaside

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

  1. 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.
  2. It is unclear if this keening sound is meant to be the crying people or some effect of the Mourning.

Appearances

Novels
The Fading Dream

References

Connections

Cities of the Mournland
Eston · Making · Metrol · Seaside