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In Absalom’s early years, the mysterious wizard Beldrin built his tower on the rocky, storm-swept cliffs along the southern shore of the Isle of Kortos. His stronghold was a dazzling masterpiece of architecture, comprising three glorious ivory spires that rose from an impossibly precarious perch on the cliff’s edge. Beneath the spires’ shadow, the surrounding neighborhood grew wealthy and beautiful. The district’s character began with a nucleus of students seeking to learn the secrets of Beldrin’s arcane might, but that spirit of curiosity soon broadened to artistic and architectural experiments that transformed Beldrin’s Bluff into an ever-changing monument to creativity and innovative expression.

The earthquake of 4698 ar devastated this movement. A neighborhood that had been known for high-end restaurants and glittering dance halls, where artists and aristocrats shared breathtaking views of sunsets over the water, suddenly plunged into screaming chaos. Fissures split off entire blocks, hurling terraced restaurants, celebrated playhouses, and tea gardens off the cliffsides into the ocean. Entire noble houses were wiped out in an instant, their manors cascading into rockfall and ruin. Two of Beldrin’s three spires crashed into the sea, tearing away great chunks of the cliffside as they fell.