Lerres

Consumed in a fog of feral magic

Panic was everywhere, the air felt suffocating, and a cloud of erratic magic was engulfing one of the smaller streets, making buildings crumble and changing organic material to strange eldritch things.

Portals appeared in unexpected places, dragging their surrounding into them, consuming everything they could. At least these we knew how to close, but too many are appearing

Okay, Lerres... Lerres is a city of research. I think. It was a place famous for its alchemist and their tendency of gathering weird rare plants for their research or potions or whatever else they did.

I don't know why but they seemed to prefer by a lot their science over the magic. I thought they worked well together...

Its (general and vague) history

So, um... I was told a general quick explanation of the city's history and I'll do my best to re-share it, but I'm confused over it so...

The city was originally a farm area, but they started using science, potions, and other alchemy thingies to make their crops better and avoid getting them destroyed by animals or sickness. This made people start leaving behind farming and start learning and experimenting with science. Almost without realising, they started being really good at it and started sharing their stuff with other cities, which helped them in commerce.

Growing cuz of commerce allowed them to invest in more research and learning and stuff. Their city grew from the small farming town to almost the size it had before the feral magic came in. It became a pillar on alchemy around the whole world and soon people from around the world came here to study or do research.

At one point, they created something that made a plague fall on the city, almost killing everyone on it. I wasn't told much more, but it was a dark time, though I doubt it was worse than now, and the kingdom forced upon them some laws to be followed during their experiments and research.

I don't really wanna write about Lerres. I don't know Lerres, its end was my first visit to it, but I promised that old man that I would get a record of it.

I don't usually keep promises? Not that this man knew or even asked if I did but... But talking with him on his final hours as he slowly transformed into whatever that was after his short contact with the messed up magic... It feels wrong not doing his final demand.

I just hope I don't do too horribly describing the city...

We are running out of safe-ish spaces to stay. The clouds are consuming too much of the city, and portals keep destroying our safe buildings, whether on accident or not, we don't even want to know.

We have been considering to risk it and cross one of the portals. We've gathered a fair amount of resources and foods, now we are only waiting for all the groups to gather together and go. Most people are praying for the portals to bring us to a safe place.

That set back only made them grow better and faster, somehow. In the following years, a lot of new things were discovered and created. The whole city was restructured, I don't know how, and they had some years of golden age. I don't know how long ago it was though.

The last decades, the city felt stagnant. Research became slow and little things were created.

The looks

It feels odd trying to do a record of a city with only his toy stuff that are incredibly vague and generic, I'd have to find someone to help me fill up gaps or just write about the history in my place, but won't happen while we are stuck in here..

The place has an architecture based on stone, and they really love adding details to their pillars but leave the walls mostly plain. The buildings tend to be at least two floors tall, having the bottom floor have no windows and a lot of chimneys leaving out of them, and the top floor having plenty of windows and balconies. Stairs tend to go up to the second floors.

I've been told and I've seen that the bottom floors tend to be labs or storages, sometimes a shop, but these are clearly marked. The top floors is where people live, and they more often than not enter through the outside staircase, most bottom floors have no connection to the top floor, though I've seen some storages having trapdoors.