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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Electric Wizard" data-source="post: 6084193" data-attributes="member: 83982">IsauraZusai, a vast wasteland east of the Djard Mountains, makes the Izabella Coast seem verdant. Rockscapes, dunes and tablelands stretch for days. Isaura is the Zusai's sole city. It is built above a vast subterranean lake. Every shaft drilled within the city's green walls finds water. The buildings are great mud brick terraces overflowing with gardens that feed the city. There are no streets here because millet and barley grow in the plazas between the towers and pyramids. Citizens travel between buildings via tunnels and arched bridges. Isaurans do not farm beyond their walls because they fear falling victim to Zusai's howling ghouls or the ghosts that haunt the rock spires.Many Isaurans revere Aphes, a god of machinery. He dwells in the ancient buckets, ropes, wells, support beams and aqueducts that bring the city its water. He is a capricious deity (Chaotic Neutral) responsible both for the integrity of machinery and its failures. Mechanic-priests who die maintaining Isaur's water system are posthumously consecrated as sacrifices in hope that Aphes will show the city favor. He is portrayed as a mutilated, often crippled, man with his limbs intertwined with gears, ropes and pulleys. His priests use broken bits of machinery as holy symbols.</blockquote>