The Town

The Town was the first settlement on the island of Aehadama.

History
In the final decades of the Inner Land, the sage Abah predicted the cataclysm that would soon sink the Inner Land into the sea. He and a few followers fled ahead of time and founded the Town on the then-uninhabited island of Aehadama. They called themselves the Townsfolk, and cut themselves off from the outside world.

The Townsfolk built a conservative and deeply pious civilization. They never told their children what was outside the Town, or about how it came to be founded; they wanted complete escape from the decadence of the outside world.

Over generations, the original colonists died and were replaced by descendents who grew up totally ignorant of their town's place in the world. Then in 200 PC, the Akurgi Empire attacked the Town without warning, killing all but a few of its inhabitants, and occupied Aehadama themselves. The Town itself was burned to the ground and never rebuilt.