Ember of the Sunken City

Cinderreach is a city built on a limestone shelf above the sea, tiered in nine rings from the brine pits at the bottom to the governor's terraces at the top. Three generations ago the tide-locks failed, and the sea crawled upward, ring by ring. The wealthy rebuilt on stilts and pontoon platforms; the poor now dive for salvage in the flooded undercity. Above them all sits the Floodlord Ossuar — once a lock-keeper, now a tyrant who commands the drowned dead and rules from a palace of coral. The on