Silverport

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Silverport - also known as the City of Ships - was one of the great cities of Arginium and a thriving, prosperous hub of trade and commerce. With a population of nearly twenty thousand, it was one of the single largest metropolises of the period.

Late one evening in the year 2722, the city was destroyed on command of the Gods, who sent several Immortals down to carry out Their judgment against it and its people. Having been corrupted over several years by the demonic influences of a profane cult that worshipped Anathema, the city had fallen into darkness and become a haven of corruption and wickedness. Several Circle prelates had been sent to warn the city of the danger they were in, but these emissaries were either savagely beaten and left for dead on the road outside the city, or, in one case, brutally murdered and strung up over the main gates. Ultimately, it is said that the Inquisitor, one of the most powerful of the Immortals, walked unseen among the denizens of the city in its final days to observe its depravity and corruption before it was condemned to annihilation.

The storm was described in accounts of the time as one that "defied all possible description". On what had been said to have been "a perfectly calm evening, without a cloud in the sky, there arose - within a mere instant - ferocious winds and churning seas like nothing before seen" that quickly endangered the entire city. When citizens attempted to escape, they found the city gates sealed and unable to be opened. Surviving descriptions by people trapped outside the city report seeing "several luminous beings, riding the merciless winds and waves as they crushed the city beneath their fury". The storm raged as winds and waves tore apart the once majestic spires of the city and reduced its great walls and docks to rubble. Untold thousands of lives were lost when whole neighborhoods of the city were swept out to sea. Once the city was utterly eradicated, the storm faded as quickly as it had come.

Since its destruction, the ruins of Silverport have remained untouched by the fearful citizens of the region, and treasure hunters attempting to pick through the ruins are strongly dissuaded, sometimes by force. It is against Commonwealth law to enter the ruins, or to take anything from them. The remains of the city have become one great tomb, a monument to mortal folly...and a warning against provoking the wrath of the Gods.