1. Foreground: **The Red King’s Palace** in Samosan was home to the [Red King](https://www.reddit.com/r/Quicksteel/comments/1ubd1ru/the_red_king_kazahkan_30/), who supposedly ruled the nation for countless years before being killed in The Great Dying. In the legends, great metal serpents slew the king, destroying much of the palace in the process. The only part of the building still standing is the Red King’s throne; the rest is only ruins reclaimed by the jungle. Curiously, the throne is proportioned for a truly giant being, as it is upwards of thirty feet in height. The palace that contained it must have been similarly huge. [Nagine](https://www.reddit.com/r/Quicksteel/comments/1nm5y60/the_warlords_of_samosan/#lightbox), one of the warlords vying for power in modern Samosan, has made the ruins the center of her territory, as she views herself as the King's Sucessor.
2. Background: **The Floating Stones of Samosan** are hundreds of boulders that hover suspended above a sinkhole deep in the jungle. Each boulder is lashed with veins of ore, and they range in size from smaller than a fist to the size of a buildings. Scholars have long known that the the true wonder of the site is not the boulders, but rather the ground beneath them, which seems to emanate some sort of magnetic force the holds the metal-laiden rocks aloft. No scholar has been able to explain this magnetic phenomena, but where science fails, legend provides an answer; The sinkhole is supposedly the final resting place of the fabled Red King of Samosan, and it is his incredible will that lifts the earth even after death. Strangely, for a few days in 1385AC, the stones were said to swirl fiercely, as if caught in a storm, before returning to their gentle floating.

The Ruins of Ancient Samosan