teddileah

The plains around Antliss, capital of the human kingdoms, were scattered with smaller towns and villages; this much was common knowledge. Also common knowledge was the fact that many of these had been abandoned over the years as their occupants had one by one passed away, or else moved to Antliss to seek their fortunes. Less common, however, was knowledge of the truth about one of these villages: Atsain, a miserable huddle of houses on the edge of the marshlands, abandoned for as long as anyone could remember. Only Cofaint Rhith, archivist for the Historian's Guild of Antliss, knew the truth about this town. She had stumbled upon it purely