Pitfire Revolution

Two catastrophes ripped through the city of Rak'Than during the Rak'Than Dynasty leading to this bloody revolution.

A fire spread, starting in several areas after a drought in the easternmost section of the city. The slums, packed in and built from wood as they were, went up quickly. Many lives were claimed in the initial blaze, then more from the wounds people held. Still more were lost from the sicknesses that could not be seen with the eye, lingering effects from smoke and ash. Disease ripped through the city in the wake of so many dead.

Followed by the drought was a period unseasonably wet. Mines left abandoned since the days of the second Paragon flooded, saw their supports washed out, and then collapsed under the strain of the city above.

In a three month period, sixty percent of the housing had been destroyed by either fire or collapse. An additional twenty percent had sustained structural damage of some variety. Within seven months, three-fourths of the population of the city had perished. Plague was rampant. Scavenger animals roamed the rubble freely.

Those that had escaped death rose up against the seventh paragon. The diseases had grown such that not even the libromancers and their guard were immune. Even so diminished, the number of common people greatly outweighed that of the guards. The siege was quickly broken, the work on what was known as the Magus Tower lost forever to the explosions.

When those families deemed to have perpetrated most of the abuse had been expunged, half of the city was abandoned to the wealthy and those deemed traitors. East of the bulk of the collapse a new city was declared and named Rak'Thul, after the second Paragon, who warned against the position becoming hereditary.