Kukoria: The Great floating island of the Kazee

Kukoria: The Great floating island of the Kazee

When Cythonons and Rudarya first came together and lifted the very rocks of Elyon into the sky, they created a massive floating land that the Kazee settled on. So great was this land that fields and rivers and even mountains dotted it’s surface. The Kazee built their great city upon the land, called Kasaumi, and there they created the great walls of color that gleamed with the greatness of their goddess, Rudarya. 

The Kazee lived their lives far above the lands of Elyon for centuries, content in their airy home, but as they lived, they studied the rocks of Kakoria and through study, trial and experimentation learned the secrets of the Air Stone that they lived upon. By removing a piece of the stone and performing the correct rituals, the Kazee realized that they could create more Air stone that could be used for other flying structures or even airships. Though they had the ability, they choose to not abuse it. Some airstone was mined to create their airships, but no larger pieces of airstone were mined.

Through the centuries the Kazee lived upon Kukoria, but their Wind mages began to suspect that all was not right with their floating home. Asking the Petari to help, the Kazee mined into the land under their flying city and found that large cracks had begun to form in the island itself. The structure was compromised and it was evident that without intervention the island would soon fail. 

The Kazee planned with the Petari and after many years, they were ready to act. The weak areas of the land would be removed from the island to allow the greater portion of the floating island to survive. But just removing pieces of the land would take away from the whole of the Kazee so the plan was to fracture the land and perform the correct rituals to allow that airstone to continue to fly. The Kazee lords each built a team of Windmages who would perform the correct ceremonies and each lord would have their own floating keep that they could rule from. The main part of Kakoria would still remain with a dozen smaller islands. 

The ritual took months to perform and many Wind mages were weakened or even killed, but in the end, a smaller Kukoria still floated and 12 Kazee lords stood on their own floating islands. Though some lords stayed with Kukori, building long arching bridges to the mainland, some chose to leave the island, their floating keeps moving slowing away from the Kazee homeland. Some have found new homes, floating over the same area over the centuries while others have nomadically moved across the world.