Ruins of Thalos zone

• Levels: 10-25
• Danger: tough opponents
• Author: Drkside
• Translation: Cradya
• How to get there: 6e4s3w (from the Market Square)

Long ago, in times beyond memory, Thalos was a wealthy city not far from the capital. But then something terrible happened. From the scraps of chronicle available to us today, we know that hordes of undead fell upon the city, wiping out its entire population and reducing it to ruins. The surviving townsfolk fled far to the east, where they founded New Thalos.

By the will of Chaos, the fabric of being was torn in the druids' Holy Grove, and a vast Rift opened, leading into the past of Thera, into an alternate reality. The combined efforts of the Hierophants and druids of the Grove, together with their teachers -- the ancient race of dryads -- managed to patch the Rift, yet they could never close it fully. A daring adventurer can pass through the regions of Chaos and reach Old Thalos -- still living and flourishing, the capital of an ancient empire.

By tradition, cartographers include in the description of this zone the vast Dwarven Forest adjoining the ruins. Once this forest belonged to the empire of Thalos, but now it has run wild.