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Tyr’agi was perhaps the greatest city of the ancient halflings of the Blue Age of Athas.

Description[]

The city was located in what would later become known as the Tyr Valley, and during the Blue Age rose from among the swamps and islands of moss. It was a strange, beautiful city, and its brilliant colors – ranging from blazing crimson, to emerald green, royal blue, and deep purple – stood in stark contrast to the surrounding marshland. Tyr’agi was a living city, not only full of life, but actually alive.

The buildings weren’t so much constructed as they were grown, marked by an architecture of gentle curves, elegant spires, and wide canals. Everything was created from a uniformly porous rocklike plant found beneath the oceans of the Blue Age, which the rhulisti nature-masters had learned to mold into anything they desired.

The crisscrossing canals of the living city were filled with equally much alive boats, formed out of living materials and not built of wood and hide.

History[]

Tyr’agi was one of the many cities of the ancient rhulisti, but stood at the center of their society. Here, nature-masters created all manner of things, and conducted experiments to further their knowledge of nature-mastery.

In the Year of Ral’s Defiance of the 8th King's Age, the nature-masters over-reached. In their attempts to make the endless oceans of the Blue Age even more life-giving, a terrible accident instead created a Brown Tide, that threatened the entire world.

Most halflings would free from their cities, including Tyr’agi, seeking shelter in underground strongholds or on the forested mountain slopes. A few nature-masters remained at Tyr’agi, however, and they sought a way to stop the Brown Tide. These rhulisti would later create the Pristine Tower, and by using it to channel the power of the then-azure sun they destroyed the Brown Tide. This had the unforeseen effect of also altering the sun itself, turning from a blue to yellow flame in the sky, which in turn altered Athas below. The seas began to evaporate and the prosperous halfling society that had once ruled the world fell, as did Tyr’agi.

Not long after these events, the Rebirth began.

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