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The founding of Mirin's Cross

By Harald Smith

The most significant attempt to recreate the lost city of Nivorah was made by Vorandevu. He was the great Emperor of the Millenium who sought to make things right again in the world. Vorandevu sought to restore the One City and to do so, he worked to recreate the Ten Cities. In the south, Vorandevu found that the City of Serenity was gone. He consulted the priests and they determined that the City of Serenity was at the site of the Haven of Sorvegus [the later site of Mirin's Cross]. Vorandevu sent priests and worshippers to rebuild the lost City of the South, the New Nivorah. Vorandevu sought amongst his folk for the right man, the serene man, who would be Reladivus. He found this man amongst the people of Saird and blessed him and renamed him. Reladivus came to the Haven of Sorvegus.

Reladivus stood serenely upon the earth. He calmed the waters and put the Black Eel to sleep. He made peace with the folk who surrounded the New Nivorah, the City of Serenity. The ground was sanctified in great rituals. The blessings for the city were made. The plans for the city were made with its streets and towers and work began. The followers came and brought food for the priests and their worshippers. The loyal dogs came and served the priests and their worshippers performing all the low tasks. The winds came and carried messages for the priests and their worshippers and to those who had yet to hear the words of the Emperor Vorandevu and Reladivus.

But rebels foiled the perfect plans. When the rituals were made to invoke the God and Goddess who would protect the city, those deities were unable to enter the city properly. Instead, Reladivus was slain by a cold hearted man who knew nothing but unrest and death and destruction.

The loyal dogs turned upon their masters and tore the throats from the worshippers. The followers picked up the relics of the priests and stole them for their petty homes to serve as idols and trinkets. The New Nivorah, the City of the South, lay barren and empty. Only vermin were left to scurry through the great broad plazas, the magnificent streets, and the elegant towers. The site was later occupied by a Sairdite leader named Mirin[eth].