Toramunda was an ancient Gau Drashari settlement that grew up around Mount Ygora during the Founding. It later split into the flying city of Avalir and the ring city of Cathmoíra.
History[]
During the Schism, two mighty Primordials named Rau'shan the Emperor of Fire and Ka'Mort the Empress of Earth were laid low and sealed away by the Dawnfather and the Wildmother under the brumestone-filled and elemental magic-permeated Mount Ygora on the continent of Domunas.[1][2] Early in the Age of Arcanum, the ancient Gau Drashari druidic settlement of Toramunda was built there. Over time, other people settled in the area as well, growing the settlement into a city.
About 292 years before the Calamity,[3] a group of mages led by Imyr Por'co sought the permission of the Gau Drashari to lift the top of the mountain into the sky to become the flying city of Avalir.[4] To gain this permission, the wizards agreed that a certain percentage of the magic collected by Avalir in its travels along the ley lines of Exandria would be apportioned to the druids.[5] The Replenishment referred to the city's return to its terrestrial sister city Cathmoíra every seven years to return the collected arcane ether into the surrounding area.[6] In the year following a Replenishment, crops exploded throughout the land, and often, a generation of magical children would be born amid general revitalizing.[7]
Although the archmages of Avalir presented the Replenishment as an act of charity, it was actually a legal obligation to the Gau Drashari under the "Pact of Crown and Throne". Avalir became the City of Crowns, and Cathmoíra the City of Thrones.[8] The city also performed a secret function as it traveled the ley lines of Exandria: it wrote a spell of protection on the face of the world.[9]
Although the cities had long been separated, in his final broadcast just before the Replenishment at the beginning of the Calamity, Loquatius Seelie addressed them jointly as "Toramunda".[10] The entire continent, including Mount Ygora and the former site of Toramunda, were completely destroyed in the cataclysm that followed, leaving only the archipelago known in modern Exandria as the Shattered Teeth.[11]
Despite the destruction of the continent, a necropolis connected to the city survived, and inside, a shard of the Empress of Earth remained. Hundreds of years later, at the beginning of the 9th century, Efterin, following the clues granted by the Great Tree of Atrophy, found the necropolis and the primordial relic.[12]
Description[]
Points of interest[]
Mount Ygora, the prison of two ancient Primordials, Ka'Mort and Rau'shan
Society[]
Toramunda was made up primarily of druids, but the abundant elemental magic in the area eventually drew others there, and it grew into a city around the mountain itself. The Gau Drashari were from their beginning the protectors of places of strong elemental magic. Many of the earliest of them, including their leader at the time of the splitting of the settlement of Toramunda into Cathmoíra and Avalir, were genasi.[13]
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References[]
- ↑ See "Excelsior" (E3x01) at 2:22:54. See also 3:05:10.
- ↑ See "Bitterness and Dread" (E3x02) at 3:31:26.
- ↑ See "Bitterness and Dread" (E3x02) at 42:03.
- ↑ See "Excelsior" (E3x01) at 1:50:35.
- ↑ See "Bitterness and Dread" (E3x02) from 1:04:34 through 1:07:20.
- ↑ See "Excelsior" (E3x01) at 0:35:35.
- ↑ See "Excelsior" (E3x01) at 2:22:29.
- ↑ See "Blood and Shadow" (E3x03) at 1:06:06.
- ↑ See "Blood and Shadow" (E3x03) at 5:16:33.
- ↑ See "Fire and Ruin" (E3x04) at 3:41:14.
- ↑ See "Fire and Ruin" (E3x04) at 6:00:04.
- ↑ See "Roots Between Worlds" (3x74) at 3:12:15.
- ↑ See "Bitterness and Dread" (E3x02) at 1:05:29.
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