Once it was a beautiful Elvin city. Terra-formed city garden a self sustaining system with the roof's catching water from the gardens that almost ran themselves. The great irrigation system ever created now lost. A city of open walled tents and beautiful crystal towers that would spiral elegantly and catch the sun with trippy hues. Where it once stood now stands Hayze. When the people of Hayze migrated from the Southern kingdoms it to escape the LACK of religious persecution there. They where shocked to discover this sprawling laid back Elvin paradise. Half and sometimes fully naked beautiful people with brown skin and blond hair. Strange purple eyes. These elves where against all the basic morals the Thou-Shalt cult help dear. The elves did little physical work. They had wind powered machines and windmills to do much work. They had gardens and grove of fruit producing trees and kept gardening work to a minimum. A system developed over thousands of years and now lost. The elves would spend too much time sleeping, eating and yet not getting fat. Smoking evil herbs and made them high, a deeply forbidden wrong in the Shalters book. The Elves had open houses. Tents with the walls normally open to the breeze, only closed during private moments or during the cold season. The elves sinned by keeping animals not for labor and food but for companionship. They played games with evil dice a great wrong to the furrowed brows of the humans. The cult settled into the tent city the elves made for them long enough to plan an surprise assault to slay as many of these foul creatures as possible and drive the rest off. Thus did the kingdom of Hayze spring up and the pillaged and destroyed ancestral home of a wise and ancient people. The city was burned and broken and thrown in pieces in the woods or buried or just pushed to the edge of a thriving new town.
The Elves made many tunnels and round underground chambers for mummies of important people and to store great reserves of wine and food canned in crystals they made with a science now lost. The preserves could stay fresh for centuries until opened.