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Lumnaar Hok, Vale Cross, is an ancient ruin of central Hiznaar Goz. Built in the Horgon Era by Kriistvrii crusaders pledged to Bahamut, it was a religious city-state for four centuries, battling the southern hordes and pushing civilization upon the natives.

In 899 HE, Vale Cross fell to the Dragon Lord Balfroglemis. Many of the city's population became slaves of the Dominion of Resalth (887 HE - 946 HE).

When the Zeymah'kein Empire crushed the Dominion of Resalth, Lumnaar Hok became one of its holdings. Under new management, Lumnaar Hok was the heart of cultural and intellectual enlightenment; sometimes becoming a thorn in Zeymah'kein politics.

In the Third Dragon Wake (1575 HE - 1576 HE), Zeymah'kein's decline was well advanced. Lumnaar Hok was reduced to ruin when an apocalypse dragon named Nidhogg was stirred from a five-thousand-year slumber. Robbed of a blissful dream, for him a dream of mass destruction with him doing the destroying, Nidhogg took out his rage on Lumnaar Hok. This frenzied dragon was solely responsible for destroying the city and nearly all of its population. Most were not killed by the dragon, but when he died from innumerable hits, arrows, bolts from dragon ballista, magical attacks and a few blows from hand-held weapons. When Nidhogg fell, his blood spewed out of him like liquid fire, raining down and burning everything it touched. The ground this blood touched became like the burning blood gushing out of Nidhogg's corpse. It spread all through the shattered city and over a large part of what was soon to be known as the Burning Divide.

Even today, some areas of the valley (Ag Krenok) and the ruins of Lumnaar Hok burn as bright and hot as the day they were started.

- Phoslomor, cartographer of the Third Epoch, excerpt from the book - "Phoslomor's Survey of Midrêth, Ch. 3"