Chapter 10, Meyers Shepard:
Ollie’s description would never give the city of Perdition full credit. The city was difficult to put into words, there were so many different things to see. Several days’ journey to the north from Zar, it lay in an area that received daily easterly winds. The city was snuggled up against the western cliffs, protecting it from the wind and storms that tended to strike from the east. Beside the city, a vast waterfall brought much-needed silt from the mountains. The sediment created a delta and wetlands unique to the city-states. This silted area gave Perdition an item in short supply to the city-states: flat land at water level.
No one knew when the first peoples arrived at Perdition or how the city received its name, only a few knew what the word even meant.
