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Windbloom, Most Destroyed of Nations

• Location: Mountains of the Southwest, at the fringe of the deserts
• Population
  • Urban: 75,000
  • Surrounding Area: 35,000
• Ruler: Her Highness, Mashiro de Blan Windbloom III (in Exile); effective ruler: Grand Duke Nagi of Artai.
• Status: Tributary of the Realm, currently occupied by rebel Tributary Artai.

The City of Windbloom has been destroyed more often than anything else in Creation, though the precise reasons are known only to the Helping Goddesses. It was first sacked during the war against the Not Fun at All. Since then, it has been levelled at least 68 times and rebuilt on the ruins each time. This includes armies, Alien Princesses, demon rampages, giant wooden horses, volcanic eruptions, rains of frogs, chocolate, and acid, two visits by Kukla, Fran, and Ollie, the Altamont Rock Festival, the Grateful Undead, and once when its paranoid ruler levelled the city just to get over his fears of it being levelled. Furthermore, there are 32,394 recorded glitches which have temporarily erased bits or all of the city.

Nevertheless, the city is always rebuilt for several reasons:

1. The Helping Goddesses are stubborn and refuse to surrender to glitches.
2. The city sits on massive deposits of all the magical materials, gold, silver, platinum, gems, and firedust. It's too valuable to abandon.
3. Windbloom acts as the Mining Canary of the South. It attracts any disasters to itself, providing advanced warning to everyone else of, say, giant Alien Princess invasions.
4. It posseses Valuable, Yet Immovable Harem Age Equipment which is too useful to allow to be destroyed.

After past events too numerous to list, Windbloom now sits inside the caldera of a volcano which is itself inside the overlapping calderas of three old volcanos, atop a giant mound which contains the ruins of the city's past incarnations. As a result, there are 100 or so levels of underground tunnels and ruins full of ancient devices, some of which still work and a few of which are understood.

The volcanos have been quiet since the Contagion when, seeing everyone die, they tried to quarantine the city by burying it in lava. This lava has since crumbled into highly fertile soil. Ancient First Age engines, hidden deep inside the earth, constantly steal cold air from the North and bring it down into the city in a great pillar of descending air which constantly creates winds rushing out from the city, thus its name.

The artificially cool climate allows Windbloom to grow huge amounts of food; ancient first age engines produce mountains of nourishing gruel and tasty fungus, and several huge caverns hold micro-suns and more volcanic soil. The result is that Windbloom can produce enough food to keep everyone fed enough to remain functional, and need only import luxury foods, especially SUGAR. Indeed, it actually snows in winter on the peaks of the Volcanos.

The city makes its living through intense mining activity, digging up extremely precious metals and selling them to the Realm and other Southern Cities. In return, the Eighth Legion was originally stationed here to protect the city, with several Legions on call to reinforce it. However, this legion was assigned to the Cat-Hackers, who took all but two Dragons further south as part of a military build-up against the Desert Catgirls.

Operation Flaming Meow, however, turned into a disaster and the two remaining Dragons had to be withdrawn to reinforce the Eighth Legion as it tried to regroup and organize fresh troops.

Grand Duke Nagi of Artai, one of Windbloom's poorer rivals, swept in and seized the poorly defended city, asserting he needed to 'protect his fiancee', the Queen. Queen Mashiro vanished in the power grab and is now missing and Artai forces continue to hold the city. The Grand Duke continues to look for her, and people continue to debate whether the writ of engagement was really signed by her now fourteen-year dead parents or whether he just forged it an excuse...

Comments

While you're doing a great job, stop yoinking Mai-Otome! :P - Trithne

When Lookshy gives Sparta its history back... :) --JohnBiles

Conceded. - Trithne