Losanon
| Losanon | |
|---|---|
| Information | |
| Plane | Dominaria |
| Status | Destroyed |
| Part of | Losanon Basin, Thran Empire, Terisiare |
Losanon was one of the eight city-states of the Thran Empire.
Description
Losanon was a beautiful place — tropical with palms and lush forests, and booming. The inhabitants converted the swamp where they could and built stilt houses on it where they could not. A wide brown river snaked lazily through the Losanon Basin and emptied onto an alluvial plain in the form of a delta. Among hulking willows and tall tangles of cypress, the city of Losanon spread. Its lights glimmered low above ever-present water. Every fire cast a shimmering twin in the black flood beneath. The outlying homes seemed natural outgrowths of the muddy embankments. Some had a globular logic, like bubbles mounding above a submerged pocket of decay. Others were bulbous and half-sunken like the cypress roots that surrounded them. Thatched lodges shouldered their round roofs among palms. Stilt houses waded in furtive herds in the gentler eddies and backwaters of the almighty river. Deeper into the delta, the traditional materials - thatch, bamboo, mud, and wood - were replaced by stone, mortar, plaster, and glass. The natural dunes and reds gave way to shades of white and gray. The small-scale forms were amplified and reinvented in a civic architecture of domes and curves.