Editing Dead City of Ep (section)

===In Ancient History===

According to the fractions of written lore and mutable oral history of orc and human tribes native to the region, Ep was first discovered by the Aghenti humans that once ranged from the north-western shores at the mouth of the Inlet Sea in the west to the Thermal Sea in the West. None know exactly when this discovery took place but most scholars estimate that it  was somewhere between -3,000 CA and -1,200 CA.

They largely stayed clear of the place, and it has haunted their legends as a place of dark beings, ancient beyond comprehension that preyed on the warriors that got too close, taking flesh, blood, and souls for unknowable purposes. Later shamans, however, began dangerous pilgrimages into the city's depths when the Aghenti began encountering larger and larger numbers of enemy human and orc tribes that migrated into their lands and drove them away from their resources. To combat the more advanced weaponry of their foes, the shamans sought new power among the ruins, trading their souls and far too many of their people for strange powers. Despite these gains however, the combination of the sacrifices necessary and the amount of time needed to make any meaningful progress, the Aghenti were largely reduced in numbers and by the time of the Lattaneran Expeditionary forces led by the legendary General Solenus Remelius they were largely absorbed by other tribes or slaughtered, their way of life and the secrets they had gleaned from the City lost to history. 

Though the Aghenti were the main people to have contact with the City they were by no means the only ones in recorded history to set foot in the place. Countless stories exist of human, dwarven, elven, and orc heroes who braved the strange City, most ending in utter tragedy but also a precious few of people making their way out with their lives and even great artifacts and treasure. These small victories, however, were more often than not poisoned by later tragedies as the treasures were largely to the detriment of whoever owned them, bringing misery and madness to any in their vicinity and most were disposed of or sealed away.