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-====== The Punishment ======
+====== The Terrace of the Punishment ======
-When one ventures into the most atypical of all of Laelith terraces, one is said to "enter into Banishment". This disreputable place does not bend to any known law: even its houses move without their inhabitants' knowledge! Its bad reputation comes from the fact that this oldest of all districts seems to be a living, malevolent entity in and of itself, its streets never leading to the same place nor ever staying the same.
+What caused the destruction of the Temple of the Elders? An earthquake? Divine wrath? And above all, what possessed the survivors to build their house with the cursed stones of these ruins? Ever since then, the Punishment is a damned, chaotic neighborhood, populated by the destitute, the outcasts, and criminals condemned to exile in this terrace. The streets here are alive, ever shifting. Some appear and disappear according to an occult calendar; even the walls conspire to create a deadly labyrinth each day, where statues perched in their niches mock the wanderer as soon as he turns his back.
+The veil of reality sometimes gets torn apart here, letting out real nightmares or, more rarely, an unexpected breath of poetry like nowhere else.
+In due time, Nin I might become the first God-King to successfully tackle this urban wart, which he is trying to sanitize in a large-scale real estate operation dubbed "the Reconquest". But neither the devilish stones of the Punishment, nor its inhabitants have said their last word…
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