Ghosts of Zinvar

Loremaster Tales:

 Curse of Zinvar 

Zinvar was once one of the preeminent trading centers on Emer. The city-state set on a large island at the mouth of the Keyten river, with strong ties with the Dales, Danarchis, Kaitaine, and even distant Sel-Kai.

A hundred years ago, the city was visited by the man known as the Nameless One, who foretold doom upon the city within the year. After he wandered the city for a few days, he left.  

One year after the prophet's visit, a ship with black sails glided into the western port at sunset, against the wind. It maneuvered as if crewed by the most skilled mariners, yet no one was on deck. The ship touched the stone dock and vanished.

Then the madness began.

The population of the great city-state attacked each other with weapons or their bare hands. Trading ships who arrived later that evening saw the port ablaze, great fires reaching hundreds of feet into the air. For days Zinvar burned, columns of smoke visible for miles.

Whether it was a plague or a curse of one of the Dark Gods will never be known.

Supposedly no one has yet returned to the cursed isle… and lived to tell about it.