Eldaarich (City)

Eldaarich occupies a small island in the Sea of Silt, just off the mainland. Here, isolated and protected from the rest of Athas, the people of Eldaarich huddle under the paranoid delusions of their mad sorcerer-king. Daskinor, ruler of Eldaarich, believes that unknowable forces are trying to destroy him. The names of these opponents change with the winds, but Daskinor does his best to destroy these imagined enemies until the next nameless terror comes for him.

Daskinor has never been a stable ruler, and Eldaarich was constructed to protect him from the outside world. Fortified walls, a strong military, devoted templars, retractable bridges, a series of keeps and forts - the entire city state and surrounding area was secured against outside invaders. Daskinor completely sealed himself and his citizens off from the rest of the world, only recently resuming limited trade with House Azeth of Kurn.

Today, Eldaarich remains an isolated prison of a city. Daskinor's fears have become the fears of his citizenry, making everyone who lives under his rule as paranoid as he is. No one ever leaves Eldaarich, and no one enters its massive gates. It's a closed society -- figuratively and literally.