Solitude City! First Update

The warm autumn wind swept over the Ulreth Mountains, crossed Zanlaga Swamp, and brushed against Solitude City.

It was a city with a sorrowful history, as though its very name told people all it had endured. The ancient city had stood for centuries. It had never been as prosperous as White Horse City, but neither had it fallen into ruin. This was the God of Knowledge's domain, where the faithful believed scholars should learn to bear loneliness. They bore it to preserve knowledge: every valuable book and insight left by every race and civilization across the long ages.

War had passed this city by.

That was due not only to reverence for knowledge, but also to the many powerful scholars of the Neutral Alignment who lived here.

Knowledge was power.

The towers of Solitude City held countless books: poetry, documents, histories, biographies, and works on Spell, Alchemy, mysteries, and many other fields. Whatever the scholars could gather and preserve, they copied, repaired, and completed as best they could before placing each volume in the towers. No one knew how many books and documents lay within. Their work had continued for centuries, and scholars who contributed new books could even earn the God of Knowledge's praise.

This had once been an Adventurer's favorite place.

The God of Knowledge was not particularly powerful, but the deity was generous. Knowledge seemed to be the only thing that mattered to him. Ancient texts recovered from underground ruins fetched high prices here, and even a damaged, crude inscription could bring a decent reward.

Solitude City had the highest literacy rate on the Material Plane.

The God of Knowledge had once tried to promote Enlightenment Books, but the Plane's limited productive capacity had ultimately doomed every plan.

Solitude City was like a scholar who had withdrawn