The Inverted Palace

This is what I sent my players as a little backstory for the big dungeon at the center of our campaign:The Inverted Palace On clear days, at dawn or dusk, you can see it on the northern horizon. A wondrous palace—or, rather, an apparition of a palace. It disappears during the day and night, but journey into the dark forests beyond Linrik and you will find it again—no longer moored to the ground, but hanging upturned in the sky. Look up, and through the tree branches a host of majestic spires bears down on you from above. But this, too, is an apparition. It is only seen by those close to where the real palace once stood. For these apparitions are of the Palace Eternal, the seat of power for the lost Zenon empire and home to Anaktos the Stargiver, her final ruler. Zenon was the greatest of human civilizations. Its domain so vast it was said to have reached the stars. The sorcerers of Zenon, among whom Anaktos was the greatest, glimpsed the true mosaic of magic and established many of…