The City of the Dead is a temple-city located on the Volcanic Isles of Lustria that serves as a necropolis where the Lizardmen bury their most honoured dead.
History[]
A Lizardmen temple-city stands on the Volcanic Isles, different from all others in Lustria. It is not a "living" city, nor was it abandoned. Rather, the City of the Dead is a necropolis, home to the Lizardmen's honoured dead. These Skinks, Saurus, and occasionally Kroxigor are honoured with an interment in the City of the Dead, watched over by those Relic Priests with no temple-city of their own. The High Elves who inhabit the islands are careful to give the site a wide berth.[1a]
The Vampire Lord Luthor Harkon of the Vampire Coast is less diplomatic. He has long had his eye upon the place, and has despatched agents to test its warding. Only one returned. Harkon keeps them bound within his cabin as he tries to puzzle out their mad ravings. They speak of something buried beneath the necropolis. Of a presence as vast as the ocean and as cold and still as the crushing depths. It sleeps there, never waking, never stirring, all-knowing, all-shaping, dead and ever-dreaming.[1a]