Uranica

The City of Uranica has existed in one state or another since the great calamity. It was discovered by travelers searching for a new home. After braving the dark writhing forests for days, the travelers spotted its mysterious peeks rising above the canopy. The city was an empty shell. While it may have once housed thousands of people, it now sat vacant. The travelers moved in and took one of the large spires for their new home. It perhaps only a generation or two before they began to notice the changes take them. Some were altered only a little, showing small marks on the skin or heightened senses. Others were changed completely, growing new limbs or developing strange abilities of the mind. Terrified of what the outside world might think of them, they locked themselves away within the city, cutting off all trade and communication. Centuries passed, and the city of Uranica and the people within it were forgotten by the world.

A thousand years passed, and the people of Uranica thrived within the city, but resources were growing thin, the reserves left behind had dwindled, and the people began to wonder why they need hide themselves. Tribes, fed up with the stone walls, splintered and left into the woods. Many set up functioning groups in and around the forest, hunting and even farming the strange writhing land. The laws of old Uranica were forgotten, and slowly but surely, word of the strange city within the writing forest began to leak out to the world. New travelers came to trade, but some laws were not forgotten. No one not born in the writhing forest could dwell within the city of Uranica. Tensions grew with the outside world and the tribes of the city.