Selíntragoú

Selíntragoú, the Moonsong, is a port city that serves as a major economic center of the western coast of Vastallos. Built in the Lirgalyn architectural style and modified to adapt to its local setting, the city is distinctly dominated by its verticality and narrowness. To minimize the destruction of the forest that covered the river delta, the city was built compact and utilized extensive underground halls.

=History=

Restian Period
The delta upon which the future city would stand was once the site of an unfinished castle and the nearby abandoned town of Restias. The delta itself was one of the only places where spruce trees naturally grew in all of Vastallos, yet it was, for the most part, unpopulated prior to the founding of the modern city of Selíntragoú.

Diarchy Period
The immigrant Ka Enkai had been commissioned by the government of the Empire of Ombria to create a market that would facilitate trade in the region. Called the Midnight Market, it was to be built near the heart of the continent itself. However, old Ombria collapsed in an event known as the Shattering of Vastallos and thus the Market died with it. Recognizing, however, that trade would still be vital for the success of a nation, Ka Enkai moved the project north to the river delta and expanded its scope to include a fully-fledged city.

As Ka Enkai was studying the site upon which he would establish a city, he came across an untouched dungeon which included a music disc. He took this disc, took this to the surface, and its song echoed across the spruce forest and down the many caves just as the full moon rose. Thus, he resolved to call the city the Moonsong, or Selíntragoú in the local Knossan language. Influenced by the Asitir faith, the city he designed derived heavily from the holy city of Lirgal. White walls and blackstone columns became the dominant architectural features of the city alongside blue roofing to match the sea.

Selíntragoú grew rapidly thanks in great part to the agricultural and commercial focus of its founder. Its culinary expertise, particularly in cakes, sustained the whole Diarchy of Neos Knossos and funded many projects including the expansion of various towns and the roads which connected them.

The Shrouding of the Song
The success of the city attracted bandits and other criminal elements. At the height of this crisis, Selíntragoú faced a bandit attack every season (every real-life day). Citizens had to barricade themselves in their houses for most of the time in fear of an attack, and multiple gates were installed to protect the underground halls which were vital to the industry of the city. The attacks continued, however, with the bandits using creative and sinister techniques to break through the city's defenses.

Faced with no other choice, Ka Enkai once more brought out the founding music disc and sang together with it. Beseeching aid from Asi Herself, nebulous light solidified into a prismatic barrier that surrounded Selíntragoú that deterred miscreants from breaking into the city. Double gates were installed in all entrances of the city. Thus, a watchful peace returned.

The Double Betrayal
Years after the Shrouding, Selíntragoú continued to finance the nation of Neos Knossos. Vastallos as a whole, however, had entered a long decline. Old power struggles ripped apart the nations of the continent, and although none led to direct war, it nevertheless damaged the peace of Vastallos. This culminated in the Kamigawan Rebellion and the betrayal of Diarch Charlence von Savras, who committed grand theft and stole the treasury of Neos Knossos. Although Ka Enkai was not a warrior, he nevertheless remained loyal to Diarch Kori Glynrel and shut Selíntragoú from the rebel forces.

With the support of the most populous city in the nation, the loyalist forces prevailed and Charlence von Savras was forced to return the contents of the Neos Knossan treasury. The Kamigawan rebels entered into negotiations which saw the creation of the Order of Enosis, a reorganized union of Neos Knossos and Kamigawa.

Lirgalyn Period
Despite the failure of the Double Betrayal, the shattering of the peace disillusioned Ka Enkai. He withdrew from most of his positions of prominence and this resulted in the decline of Selíntragoú itself. Neos Knossos still had enough wealth to sustain itself for decades to come, but the nation stagnated. Many citizens disappeared or moved to other lands.

Selíntragoú, however, was still a holy site to the Asitir faith, and Ka Enkai recognized that its decline must be stopped. He thus sent word to the Lunar City-State of Lirgal asking for a member of the faith to come and lead the Moonsong. Thus was Astraas Dynaet selected by Lirgal to lead the Moonsong and a new period of the city's history began.