Qujara stands atop the Great Hill, centre of Sunad. The city, barely stable on its peak, quickly realised its incapacity to expand outwards, but the Deyru had the desire to make Qujara the greatest capital city in all of Desuq. So the city built itself upwards rather than outwards. As more people braved the trek up the Great Hill, the taller the city became, the layers a jumpled mess of shadowed walkways and precariously stacked cubed houses, lit only by weak candlelight.

The summit of the Great Hill holds the Deyru’s Court, held away from the shadows of the tower slums of Qujara. Mirrors line the circumference of the Court, reflecting light into its centre, at the Palacium. The Deyru once roamed the slums and walked among his people, but a prophecy holds the supersticious old leader in his rooms, bathed in light for fear of the pirahnas that lurk in the shadows.

The divide between the light and shadows is greater than ever before, and now the shadows are restless as the clouds creep over Qujara’s light.