Ralsimoor
Ralsimoor was an ancient city on the continent of Myruthea on Magicians' End, founded in the age of the New Kingdoms in 9812 BPC. It played an important part in the history of the world for more than fifteen thousand years, until it was destroyed by the Mad Mage Ixthamon on 17th Doloph, 5937 APC and rendered uninhabitable at the centre of the Melancholia.
Government
Ralsimoor experienced a variety of different forms of government during its long history.
In the earliest days when records begin, the Hill Kings of Ralss laid claim to the land where Etan’s Heart had been found and where the new city arose. It was under their orders that the Ralsimoor Light was constructed.
In later times, the city resisted conversion to the faith and power of the Enfolded One existing as an independent polity which called itelf the Ralsimoor Authority, beyond the control of the Trinity Moon Triple Enfolding.
After the Sundering, the Lords of the South took power during the traumatic times when the Book of Ages was written.
Ralsimoor was the seat of the most important of the Twelve Wise Ones as civilization began to recover during the Long Thaw and by the time of the Myruthean Unification Wars its affairs were controlled by the Wisest Council under the leadership of the High Lord of Ralsimoor.
This structure was gradually eroded during the many long centuries of the Old Pale Empire as the city was transformed into a more integrated part of the Empire, accepting the rule of the Emperor and the Ecclesia with local Factors exercising a great deal of power.
But after the Fall of the Old Pale Empire Ralsimoor regained its former independence and a body known as the Intelligentsia took charge. Drawing on the traditions of the Hylacon Peoples and their successors, the Society of Arcane Adepts, the Intelligentsia was heavily influenced by mages and scholars. It was briefly supplanted by the autocratic mage Pezulruth Veld during the Time of Terrors until his death in the Battle of the Rising Deep, but otherwise ruled with little interruption for more than five thousand years, until Prince Rygarde came to seize Etan’s Heart in 5185 APC. He appointed a City Protector to replace them.
The Loyalist Thaumatic Army Council, when they regained control of Magicians' End, did not restore the powers of the Intelligentsia, being somewhat jealous of the scholars of Ralsimoor and consisting in large part of mages brought up on the traditions of the Tinturbean schools of magic, and this even in spite of the relocation of the Institute of Magical Analytics which had taken place during the Second Popular Ascendancy.
A Popular Council managed the affairs of the city under the Third Popular Ascendancy, before a much older style of courtly governance returned in the era of the Jewelled Queendoms.
The city's demise at the centre of the Melancholia coincides with the overthrow of the Jewelled Queendoms, after which it was abandoned and fell into the state of haunted ruin in which it remains to this day.
In the earliest days when records begin, the Hill Kings of Ralss laid claim to the land where Etan’s Heart had been found and where the new city arose. It was under their orders that the Ralsimoor Light was constructed.
In later times, the city resisted conversion to the faith and power of the Enfolded One existing as an independent polity which called itelf the Ralsimoor Authority, beyond the control of the Trinity Moon Triple Enfolding.
After the Sundering, the Lords of the South took power during the traumatic times when the Book of Ages was written.
Ralsimoor was the seat of the most important of the Twelve Wise Ones as civilization began to recover during the Long Thaw and by the time of the Myruthean Unification Wars its affairs were controlled by the Wisest Council under the leadership of the High Lord of Ralsimoor.
This structure was gradually eroded during the many long centuries of the Old Pale Empire as the city was transformed into a more integrated part of the Empire, accepting the rule of the Emperor and the Ecclesia with local Factors exercising a great deal of power.
But after the Fall of the Old Pale Empire Ralsimoor regained its former independence and a body known as the Intelligentsia took charge. Drawing on the traditions of the Hylacon Peoples and their successors, the Society of Arcane Adepts, the Intelligentsia was heavily influenced by mages and scholars. It was briefly supplanted by the autocratic mage Pezulruth Veld during the Time of Terrors until his death in the Battle of the Rising Deep, but otherwise ruled with little interruption for more than five thousand years, until Prince Rygarde came to seize Etan’s Heart in 5185 APC. He appointed a City Protector to replace them.
The Loyalist Thaumatic Army Council, when they regained control of Magicians' End, did not restore the powers of the Intelligentsia, being somewhat jealous of the scholars of Ralsimoor and consisting in large part of mages brought up on the traditions of the Tinturbean schools of magic, and this even in spite of the relocation of the Institute of Magical Analytics which had taken place during the Second Popular Ascendancy.
A Popular Council managed the affairs of the city under the Third Popular Ascendancy, before a much older style of courtly governance returned in the era of the Jewelled Queendoms.
The city's demise at the centre of the Melancholia coincides with the overthrow of the Jewelled Queendoms, after which it was abandoned and fell into the state of haunted ruin in which it remains to this day.
Industry & Trade
Mining and quarrying in the Ralss Hills was the original reason for the foundation of the city and it continued to be an important industry in later years. Metal working of various kinds followed on naturally from the mining and Ralsimoor became the home of the finest smelters, crafters and metallurgists for many ages of the world. Important techniques were researched and developed here, leading to numerous advances in the development of alloys and refinements in the working and tempering of subtle bronzes, steels and more complex composites.
During the time of the Trinity Moon Triple Enfolding Ralsimoor also became known as a centre for unorthodox arcane studies, and whilst it was much less important in this respect than the Enfolding or the Kingdom of Snowborne, it still attracted a significant group of dissident magic users with their own independent traditions who helped the economy of the city.
The Ralss Hills are fertile and specialist crops could be cultivated there. Ralsimoor served as a market place for this local cottage farming community, but it also imported food in greater quantities from further afield, mainly the well developed agricultural lands around Pale to the west.
Districts
The Silver Stream district was a wealthy residential suburb, high in the hills. A stream of the same name flowed through an artfully gardened valley and the properties of some of the richer residents of the city opened out into this shared vale with its carefully manicured "wilderness" which was reserved for their communal private access. The district had many beautiful viewpoints looking down to the point where the stream cascaded over a waterfall to flow into the sprawl of the lower city. The elegant and expensive hotel "Hylacon's Rest", which catered for affluent travellers at the start of the fourth millennium APC, itself overlooked the Silver Stream vale.
Highgate Square stood just inside the walls on the western edge of the city with the Highgate itself opening out onto the moors. The great thoroughfare of Bank Street ran east from Highgate Square into the heart of the city, lined with commercial and financial buildings which overlooked more humble market shops, covered in cloth awnings.
The Sunset Gate stood a little to the south, offering a second route onto the hills. In the east, Arelha's Gate which once marked the limit of the city had been incorporated into an expanding region around the road to Ralsport even before the Planar Conformation.
The Hotel Hylacon's Rest at Ralsimoor by DMFW with Leonardo AI
Ralsimoor - Bank Street circa 3389 APC by DMFW with Leonardo AI
History
The city of Ralsimoor was founded early in the age of the New Kingdoms as a centre for the development of important mining and quarrying sites in the Ralss Hills in the east of Myruthea. At this time, rapid population growth and the development of magical agencies and powers were gradually transforming the organisation of the monolothic city states that had hitherto characterised the civilisation of the Painted Peoples. For the first time, divergent cultures could exercise unified authority over relatively wide regions and build kingdoms and nation states. This was the era also, when both Tinturbean and Punjuki were colonised by exiles and adventurers of various kinds who were unhappy with the complex cauldron of politics which kept Myruthea bubbling and saw their chance to take new opportunities in new lands.
Ralsimoor grew slowly over the first two thousand years of its existence, during which time it offered allegiance to three different successive regional powers which laid claim to the territory. The Potentate of Asharoth gave way to the Kingdom of Eldoria and then the Sun Rise States Alliance, before the city itself assumed control over a large part of the east and south, ruling under the name of the Ralsimoor Authority. At this time the Trinity Moon Triple Enfolding had become the largest government the world had yet seen, ruling lands on three continents from its capital of Goolsyn at the heart of Tinturbean. But around the edges of the Enfolded One's control there were still numerous smaller countries, kingdoms, baronies and cities which retained their independence. The best known of these was the Kingdom of Snowborne on Zisleth but the Ralsimoor Authority was another example of those peripheral states which held out against integration into the Enfolding.
After the Sundering, Ralsimoor was perhaps the most sophisticated and largest surviving settlement on Myruthea and at the start of the Long Thaw it was scholars from the city who compiled the Book of Ages, which helped to preserve the knowledge of the ages (and languages) before the terrible unnatural glaciation.
The famous library known as the Scholar's Vault was opened in 7280 BPC and became the permanent home for the original copy of the Book of Ages. As the world warmed and Myruthean civilisation returned, Ralsimoor was always a beacon of culture. The city was one of the twelve centres of power who appointed representitives during the age of the Twelve Wise Ones, and the still later, it was one of the three main powers in the Myruthean Unification Wars.
The Treaty Of Pale, which was signed between Ralsimoor and Klaractazum on 13th Kerax, 4640 BPC, is now considered an important precursor to the development of the Old Pale Empire. Ralsimoor was not only a founding member of that long lasting empire, but a city with a legendary status within it. Whilst it may never have been the capital, it provided many of the soldiers that supported its conquests, a number of famous mages and several emperors.
In the years leading up to the Planar Conformation, the prophet Hylacon chose the city to preach his message about the impending catastrophe, and it was here that the Hylacon Peoples were strongest.
After the Planar Conformation, Ralsimoor was perhaps of less significance to the recovering world order than it had been in earlier ages, except that it was the home to the Society of Arcane Adepts who kept alive the knowledge of the Hylacon Peoples for later generations.
During the Time of Terrors, the mage Pezulruth Veld took control of Ralsimoor and used its armies to wage war on the city of Nephatar in an attempt to gain control over the Net of Pruth at the Battle of the Rising Deep in 3324 APC.
The city was ultimately destroyed in 5937 APC when the mad mage Ixthamon undertook his campaign to overthrow the Jewelled Queendoms. His magical assault against Queen Jayne II, the last queen of Ralsimoor, inflicted the Melancholia over the city and all its surrounding regions, rendering a huge swaith of land uninhabitable to this day and leaving the once proud city with all its glorious history as no more than a ghost of a ruin.
Ralsimoor grew slowly over the first two thousand years of its existence, during which time it offered allegiance to three different successive regional powers which laid claim to the territory. The Potentate of Asharoth gave way to the Kingdom of Eldoria and then the Sun Rise States Alliance, before the city itself assumed control over a large part of the east and south, ruling under the name of the Ralsimoor Authority. At this time the Trinity Moon Triple Enfolding had become the largest government the world had yet seen, ruling lands on three continents from its capital of Goolsyn at the heart of Tinturbean. But around the edges of the Enfolded One's control there were still numerous smaller countries, kingdoms, baronies and cities which retained their independence. The best known of these was the Kingdom of Snowborne on Zisleth but the Ralsimoor Authority was another example of those peripheral states which held out against integration into the Enfolding.
After the Sundering, Ralsimoor was perhaps the most sophisticated and largest surviving settlement on Myruthea and at the start of the Long Thaw it was scholars from the city who compiled the Book of Ages, which helped to preserve the knowledge of the ages (and languages) before the terrible unnatural glaciation.
Magicians' End - The Book of Ages by DMFW with Leonardo AI
The Treaty Of Pale, which was signed between Ralsimoor and Klaractazum on 13th Kerax, 4640 BPC, is now considered an important precursor to the development of the Old Pale Empire. Ralsimoor was not only a founding member of that long lasting empire, but a city with a legendary status within it. Whilst it may never have been the capital, it provided many of the soldiers that supported its conquests, a number of famous mages and several emperors.
In the years leading up to the Planar Conformation, the prophet Hylacon chose the city to preach his message about the impending catastrophe, and it was here that the Hylacon Peoples were strongest.
After the Planar Conformation, Ralsimoor was perhaps of less significance to the recovering world order than it had been in earlier ages, except that it was the home to the Society of Arcane Adepts who kept alive the knowledge of the Hylacon Peoples for later generations.
During the Time of Terrors, the mage Pezulruth Veld took control of Ralsimoor and used its armies to wage war on the city of Nephatar in an attempt to gain control over the Net of Pruth at the Battle of the Rising Deep in 3324 APC.
The city was ultimately destroyed in 5937 APC when the mad mage Ixthamon undertook his campaign to overthrow the Jewelled Queendoms. His magical assault against Queen Jayne II, the last queen of Ralsimoor, inflicted the Melancholia over the city and all its surrounding regions, rendering a huge swaith of land uninhabitable to this day and leaving the once proud city with all its glorious history as no more than a ghost of a ruin.
Points of interest
Arelha's Gate was one of the earliest formal archways built to provide a grand entrance to the city. In later years it was incorporated within the expanding city limits, but is here shown as it was during the early years of the Thousand Year Alliance long before the Sundering.
The Diamond of Ralsimoor which was once set into the top of this archway is the oldest of the Fate Stones and has played a role in many stories.
The Scholar's Vault was a fabulous library and museum which attracted academics and magic users in particular from all over the world. It was the home of the original copy of the Book of Ages and for all that anyone knows, it may still be so.
The Hylacon Peoples extended the library above and below ground, and their successors, the Society of Arcane Adepts continued this work, adding the Thalamus Tower in 545 APC during the age of the Water Kingdoms. Before the much later development of the rival centres of learning in Tinturbean, the Scholar's Vault was the most important nexus of arcane knowledge on Magicians' End and it regained its pre-eminent position when the Institute of Magical Analytics relocated to Ralsimoor in 3718 APC.
Ralsimoor Arelha's Gate by DMFW with Leonardo AI
The Ralsimoor Light by DMFW with Leonardo AI
The Ralsimoor Light was an elegant and tall tower in the hills and the city itself dates its true foundation to the first lighting on the 1st of Authon, 9812 BPC. Over time, the Ralsimoor Light became the best known symbol of the city, casting a magical glow over the nighttime activities of the citizens and only rarely darkened deliberately. It is said that the even more famous Axial Tower in the ancient Kingdom of Snowborne was inspired by the Ralsimoor Light.
Although it stood for more than 15,000 years, the Light was extinguished forever, when the city fell at the end of the 6th millenium APC.
Although it stood for more than 15,000 years, the Light was extinguished forever, when the city fell at the end of the 6th millenium APC.
The Scholar's Vault was a fabulous library and museum which attracted academics and magic users in particular from all over the world. It was the home of the original copy of the Book of Ages and for all that anyone knows, it may still be so.
The First Hall of the Scholar's Vault at Ralsimoor by DMFW with Leonardo AI
The Thalamus Tower at the Scholar's Vault in Ralsimoor by DMFW with Leonardo AI
RUINED SETTLEMENT
17th Doloph, 5937 APC
Founding Date
9812 BPC
Type
Large city
Location under
Included Locations
Related Traditions
Notable Former City Rulers
5934 to 5937 APC
Queen Jayne II of Ralsimoor by DMFW with Midjourney
5494 to 5525 APC
Queen Serath of Ralsimoor
Queen Serath of Ralsimoor by DMFW with Midjourney
3294 to 3324 APC
Pezulruth Veld by DMFW with Midjourney
7 to 48 APC
Guillaminn Peldath - The First Concordant of Ralsimoor by DMFW with Midjourney
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