Editing New Rachival

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Nestled on a high steppe betwixt the Northern and Southern Granitefall Mountains, Rachival was the capital of the Gnomes before it was overrun by the Undead Horde many years ago. If rumor can be believed, the armies of the [[Withered Aegis]] were able to enter the [[Type::City|city]] of Rachival nearly untouched. The [[Gnome]]s of New Rachival claim that they were betrayed, that the machines they had built to defend the city turned on them at the last moment, opening the gates and allowing the Undead Hordes to enter the city unscathed. If the rumor can be believed, then this traitor may be the greatest single threat to the [[Living Races]] in [[Istaria]]. Only time will tell if he or she is brought to justice.

After the fall of Rachival, the Undead Hordes crushed the last remnants of the Gnomish army as it attempted to flee south. Shortly thereafter, the Gnomish state dissolved and the remaining refugees of the Gnomes made a desperate run for the safety of [[Tazoon]]. To this day, the Gnomes have not been able to reform their state; most of their ancestral lands, including Rachival, are still under the domination of the Undead Horde. With the victory of the [[Living Races]] at the Battle of Tazoon and the subsequent Peace Accords signed by all the [[Living Races]], however, the [[Gnome]]s stand their best chance ever to reclaim their lands and fully reestablish their seat of power.

The [[Gnome]]s of Rachival led the way in the mechanical arts, and their utilitarian applications to the arts of magic, and their city represented such. Rachival today, however, is a place of death and decay set against what was the apex of the Istarian fusion of technology and magic. Many of their innovations stand idle in the heart of what some scholars believe is one of the largest blight maelstroms found anywhere in Aradoth. Some speculate that the inventions of the Gnomes have been twisted into aberrations of what their intent used to be, courtesy of the effects of the Realm of Blight. Little is known about the current state of the city itself, though those brave enough to venture close to the city share tales of the skies surrounding the city being constantly dark and thick with maelstrom fog. Some reports even describe twisted and nefarious metal constructs patrolling the lands surrounding the city.

[[New Rachival]] was founded after the fall of [[Old Rachival]] and builds the new capital city of the [[Gnome]]s. It lays to the northwest of [[Tazoon]] in the [[Location::Barasavian Desert]].

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