Molaesmyr

Molaesmyr was the ancient home of the northern elves of Wildemount. Following a mysterious corruption originating from beneath the city, it was abandoned and left to ruin.

Description
The ruins of Molaesmyr are located in the northern Savalirwood about a mile or two from the Boreal Omen River. The ruins lay below a dense forest canopy that blocks out most sunlight, and the rubble, crumbling walls, fractured roads, and collapsing, and leaning towers are in a gradual process of reclamation by nature. The buildings are covered and intertwined with purple and red vegetation and toxic fungi. Many structures are built into trees. The area is shrouded in perpetual fog, and many of the trees closest to the center of the former city are diseased and tangled or grown around skeletal remains of elven families poisoned by the miasma. Some of the trees with bright red leaves appear corpse-like themselves, and emit spores into the air. There are also fissures that emit a blackish purple miasma.

While the elves who survived the fall of the city have long since fled, strange fey creatures live amid the ruins, along with the mutated creatures of the surrounding Savalirwood and even some monstrous former elves, transformed by the strange, purple and gray shadow that spelled the fall of the city. Giant clusters of webs are situated at the tree tops, possibly weaved by a mutated elk with eight to ten legs. The spirits of elves killed in Molaesmyr linger as ghosts.

By 843 PD, many of the buildings that remained standing had been heavily looted of most valuables.

Points of interest

 * : The central tower of Molaesmyr, it is thought that the source of the corruption came from the labyrinth below that tower. It is ten-stories high.
 * Gildhollow Tower: Personal tower of Ludinus Da'leth. It is located in the northwestern part of the city.

History
A great forest once existed that covered much of the region that is now the Greying Wildlands. During the Calamity, conflicts in the region resulted in a slow-burning arcane forest fire that burned for a century following the Divergence. Amid the burning forest was a grove that remained un-burned, believed to be a blessing from Melora and Corellon. Here a group of surviving wood elves settled and built a new home, founding the city of Molaesmyr. The city became the most prominent elven society in Wildemount after the Divergence that blossomed in the Veluthil Forest around a powerful fane.

However, in 585 PD, a disaster of unknown origin that emitted grayish-purple poisonous fumes from beneath the city and during the red light of Ruidus caused the fall of the city. The elves of Molaesmyr split into two groups as they fled. One went west, eventually founding the city of Bysaes Tyl, which was later absorbed into the Dwendalian Empire. The others, led by King Imathan Talviel, went northward and were granted refuge in Uthodurn, which had previously been founded by the dwarves. Among the survivors of the fall is Ludinus Da'leth, who split off from both groups and went to Rexxentrum following Molaesmyr's destruction. The fall of Molaesmyr occurred on an apogee solstice.

Post-destruction
Dwueth'var, the Star Razor, was sundered in a terrible battle deep within the ruins of Molaesmyr.

At some point before 833 PD, Vess DeRogna, Archmage of Antiquity of the Cerberus Assembly of the Empire, hired the Tombtakers to accompany her on an expedition to Molaesmyr. She later claimed that the expedition was only to the exterior ruins, but the Tombtakers had traveled as deep as Caes Mosor.

The corruption of the Savalirwood that encroached on the Blooming Grove originated from the ruins of Molaesmyr. While the Mighty Nein were exploring the ruins of Aeor, they noticed that the corruption of trees found there was very similar to that of the Savalirwood. Although Caduceus was reluctant to investigate further, the corruption of the Savalirwood did indeed trace back to something brought back from Aeor.

In more recent years, Uthodurn has sent expeditions to discover a way to fight the corruption, as well as to search for relics of Molaesmyr. Mercenaries and looters from Shadycreek Run have also ventured to the ruins, in an attempt to profit from the treasure or elven secrets they may find. Reani agreed to be available as support for one of the Uthodurnian expeditions to Molaesmyr lead by the Woodset Auditors in exchange for granting the Mighty Nein access to the Vellum Steeple teleportation circle.

At one point, one of the most prominent scientists of Uthodurn, the Grand-Conservator Aramond Tuestral, was spearheading an endeavor to understand the fane withing the Savalirwood.

Campaign 3: Bells Hells
After learning Ludinus had lived in Molaesmyr for many years, and having no means of transport back to Marquet for some time, "Team Wildemount" of Bells Hells decided to travel to Molaesmyr in an attempt to learn more. They reached it after a week of travel through the Flotket Alps and down the Boreal Omen River. The party immediately saw a mutated elk-like creature, which they made an effort to avoid as they traveled towards Gildhollow Tower. En route, they encountered and fought ghosts, and hid from both a headless winged creature and from the Wolf-King. Chetney found some of Ludinus's notes in his tower, which Deanna was able to read and FRIDA to record.