Essardath

Essardath is one of the fifteen plane shifted capitals to escape The Downfall. Often called the city of magic for it's famous wizard academy and large sorcerer population. It is ruled by the scholars of the royal academy and the heads of the oldest and most powerful sorcerer families, collectively called the Essardim and Essdath respectively.

History
Originally founded around 986 BD Essardath was a much larger island nation once upon a time. During 622 BD the island suffered a magical cataclysm of unknown origin that killed most of the population. The remaining mages and surviving regular citizens swiftly evacuated the whole island and fled north. There they requested aid from the coastal nations of Vostral, Serr and Orriun and for them to house the refugees. During the following years it became increasingly clear that the devastated island was no longer habitable, the countries made a pact where they traded a relatively empty island in the inner sea to the mages where they could rebuild. In return the mages would offer their aid in magical matters to the kingdoms and provide training to the magically talented.