Quicksilver

Quicksilver is a city in Toswald. It is the only town in the Kohm Plains, and the only town on the continent which is still standing on a sinkhole. Its original incarnation was designed and financed by Prawnwrit Thodewonder, a wealthy member of the Keepers of the Omnicodex who was especially interested in the effects of unstable geography on modern architecture. He intended to observe the town, which would remain empty, and record its interactions with the local landscape. Unfortunately, the town was a particularly nice place to live, and much to Thodewonder’s annoyance, a bunch of people caught wind of the experiment and moved in. Naturally, Thodewonder warned them that it was only a matter of time before the town fell into the ground, but they ignored him until three years later when a small earthquake proved him right. Fortunately for them, the town sank slowly enough that there was minimal loss of life, and the remaining people (who were annoyed that Thodewonder had been correct) rebuilt the town in the exact same spot, mostly just to spite him. It was around this time that Quicksilver began to gather some outside attention from the media, who were fascinated that Quicksilver inhabitants were dumb enough to rebuild their town on a sinkhole. Once word of this got out, morbidly curious tourists started coming to gawk at the locals, and the money started coming in.

That occurred around 970 FA. Since then, the town has collapsed about five times, and each time it has been rebuilt by the inhabitants, who now make enough money off the tourists that they can make a full time job of acting like ignorant country bumpkins and have more than enough left to rebuild their town every six years or so.

Prawnwrit’s Tower, now a stronghold for the Keepers of the Omnicodex, lies just far enough outside of Quicksilver to keep it from sinking underground.