Skyreach

Today
Skyreach today is a towering Necropolis, and is nearly completed with phase two of it's building. Comprised nearly entirely of stone, the city is a cite to behold having acquired the lands once known as Novia (Now referred to as "The Outter City"). Many plans and developments have been laid out for this stone monolith of a city. (Today, The Lich Astra remains as the only permeant resident of the City, and has built all of the Inner city by hand, Alone.)

Phase 1:
It all began with a massive and towering and sprawling acacia tree. It once towered over the lands of Valle, and had both the blessings of nature and the divine upon it. The tree was even mighty enough that it had spawned a direct portal into the realm of nature itself. Eventually, Valle began to slowly recover, and over time progress moved closer and closer to the lands that would become Skyreach. One day, the ruler of Valle, a King by the name of Crowley Cornaro, granted the land to the Lich Astra Cornaro (Adopted) to develop into a useful border guard with the neighboring nations, and as a possible trade hub. Upon arriving, the first action of the Lich was to cast a spell of withering and decaying, killing the tree. With only a single sapling surviving (which is now stored within a vault in Skyreach), all surrounding foliage began to wilt and slowly die. After removing the rest of the forest that had once stood, on top of the site where the tree once stood, a fortress tower of vast size was constructed, now known as the tower of Skyreach.

The Stone Plague
The “Stone Plague”, rather the phenomenon that befell Skyreach is result of large waves of magic washing over the land, mutating or killing all life within the area. Often the result of tapping directly into a Leyline, or opening a portal to a different plane of reality, the Stoneplague is a byproduct of attempting to contain the spread or power of said magic. Lands over exposed often become “dead zones”, and are devoid of all natural life, and may instead lead to new and bizarre life taking its place. As to the name, The “Stone Plague” itself is the result of this, the attempt to destroy all natural nature to avoid it’s rapid and often lethal mutation. By saturating all natural land with stone, the issue is choked off at its source.