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==== Lost Towns: Phantasia and Doxa ====
To view a map of Orexis is to notice that Karteria is not the only named settlement on the island. But while the average Karterian might express curiosity or concern over the fate of Kelesis or Enochlesis, no one seems to care much about either of these more 'local' townships.

However, Augmented exploration to the North has managed to reconnect with the ailing population of '''Phantasia'''. More information can be found here on the town and its environs, but to summarize: Phantasia consists of around 500 people huddled around small farms and decaying buildings. Karteria helped to fund and build their barrier, which is a much simpler, less effective version of the one that shields Karteria. The population is extremely wary, watchful, and stoic. They feel certain that these are the end times. While not hostile to visitors, they want nothing to do with either Karteria or the Augmented.

Some overtures of material help have been made, if with limited success, given how withdrawn the population is. But teleporters have been set up closer to Phantasia, connecting Karteria to the Northern part of Orexis. While the Phantasians are completely opposed to leaving their home, they have suggested a reason for it to the Augmented who visited them: their ancestry ties them to '''Lupê''', a culture who valued living with the land rather than taming it. Cooperation, rather than control. Karterian 'Calling' magic is anathema to them, as is the big city life. It's a wildly different interpretation of the fallen Lupê than what's said in Karteria. (As it turns out, their ancestors were not of Lupê, but this idea of their cultural mores persists, embedded deeply in Phantasian life.)

The areas around Phantasia are absolutely ''inundated'' with Katalyth outcroppings, and both flora and fauna have adapted through rapid mutation.

While attempts to reach '''Doxa''' were similarly successful, the harbor town was discovered to be completely empty of its former human population. The original description can be found here, but to summarize: Nature has already begun to reclaim the abandoned Doxa. While there are some fragmented human skeletons around the town, there's no sign that any great number of people died here. There ''is'' sign that there was an orderly emigration from the area; the people who abandoned this town knew they weren't coming back.

There is presently no easy way to reach Doxa, as no teleportation platforms have been installed in that direction. Were seafaring ever revived, Doxa would be a reasonable staging point for an approach towards Ekklisis, the island to the West.