Minkaraph

Old Chlendi name was Kamaniilayaat. Renamed Minkarapht after war - means "battlement against the Mindat". Old Chlendi city built on an ient heteri fort. Became the southern capital in the late eskla empire. The farthest incursion of the Mindat into the Empire. They laid seige upon the city for a year and a moon. The Mindat brought in a circle of sorcerers to bring down the city walls. Despite the Chlendi magicks, plague and starvation had set in, yet the city had not fallen. In the midst of the riots, the imperial family had retreated to the palace, using fell magicks to secure the building. The Mindat ritual crushed the city walls, leveling the city and killing most of the inhabitants. Yet, amidst the rubble, the palace stood in silence. Old walls still remain in places, and tunnels, trenches, and battlements dot the countryside.

After the reconstruction and the end of the war, no one disturbed the palace. Those entering have never returned. The city now holds five "quarters", the nobles' still quiet. The city was raised above ground level on plazas in the construction style of old Chlendi towns, leaving the old ruins below. Pairs of statues commemorating the old emperors straddle both the rivers' entrances to the city walls, standing even above the huge spires that can be spotrted from miles away.