Qoniira Tetrarchy

The Qoniira Tetrarchy is an ancient, hidden civilization that once comprised five cities in southern Tal'Dorei on the Rifenmist Peninsula, including the city of Niirdal-Poc. Their culture rose and is widely believed to have fallen years before the Calamity (or when the Calamity hit) and was ancient even to other ancient civilizations of Exandria. Its ruins are believed to lie lost in the Rifenmist Jungle, but in fact the city of Niirdal-Poc still exists.

The Qoniira were neutral about the sources of magic, not caring about the difference between good gods and Betrayer Gods or between natural and humanoid-wrought magic. They respected and honored it all.

In 842 PD, Shaun Gilmore identified the rune that appeared on the mesa that suddenly rose near the Flamereach Outpost as belonging to the Qoniira. He tasked an adventuring party to find a bit more of this runic writing in the ruins of the Qoniira civilization so that he could translate it. After a journey of more than two months, the party found its way to Niirdal-Poc, where the rune was translated as meaning roughly "place of burning".

Government
Qoniira once had five cities, four of them surrounding the capital, Niirdal-Poc. Each of the four peripheral cities was ruled by a Tetrarch, who came together in the capital to make group decisions. All four tetrarchs are now in Niirdal-Poc because the city is the only one left. One of the Qoniira cities (possibly Niirdal-Poc itself) had a population of around one million at one time.