Xahutec, the City of Echoes is a Temple-City that fell during the Great Catastrophe, when a portal leading to the dread Realm of Chaos was opened beneath it.[1a] Through the rift, the Daemons entered within its protective barrier; allowing troops from the nether-realm to bypass the Slann's protective wards. Like a wound that will never heal, that self-same hole in reality has re-opened several times, causing major incursions that have destroyed each of the attempts to resettle the ruins.[2a] Since that time, the Lizardmen made several efforts to refound Xahutec, ignorant of the curse still seething beneath the city's ruins. The Mage-Priests declared Xahutec lost forever' after the portal was discovered, and finally closed.[1a]
Despite this proclamation, several Mage-Priests have attempted to re-found the city over the millennia, if only for a time. The last of these was Lord Tenoq, who inherited rulership of the cursed city after the death of the ill-fated Lord Zhul. Lord Tenoq did not reign long however, and the City of Echoes was abandoned for the final time shortly after. The temple-city remains empty to this day.[1a] However, a strong guard is posted around its perimeter to raise the alarm when the Daemons return in force yet again.[2a] It is said that the sound of the city's fall echoes through time and reverberates through its ruined avenues, a residue perhaps of the opening of the rift at the height of the Great Catastrophe.[1a]