Fire rained from the heavens. It lit up the sky above the city like a faerie tale, and silence fell as the citizens gathered on the city squares and stared at the spectacle. Then the storm of fire struck down.

First on the winter palace, which went up in pillars of screaming smoke and flames.

Next on the Dam of the Dragons, and a flood of fire and steam raged through the streets of the city. Nobody in its path survived. And a third struck down, destroying the northern defenses. And a fourth rained down on the fleet, smashing the proud warships that protected the once mighty Samaris?.

- Death of a Godking, cc. 627

Samaris lies exactly between the three great continents that make up the world of Yaddrin?. Its central position made it a powerful island, and a true trade center.

Most striking about Samaris is its enourmous share of ruins. Southport?, the major city, is literally built on the ruins of an older city. And this older city was built on ruins itself. Everywhere you can breathe history. In this way Southport is much like real-life Rome in Italy.

Samaris was once completely covered by a huge advanced city, until it was destroyed in a terrible war two hundred years back. The war between the North and the South. The war between the demonic wizard king Acecerax and the demon witch empress Vekna.

Now only a few small cities remain, rebuilt on and between the ruins of that once great metropolis. Southport is the largest of these cities, with some 200,000 inhabitants (still huge for medieval standards). North, West and Eastport, and Zentrumstadt are the other, much smaller surviving towns.

But Samaris is still a ruling power in the world. And adventurers and traders still flock to its main harbour Southport, hoping that they will become rich and find some of the old magick of the Island of Islands.