Editing Iridos (section)

==History==

[[Diaphane]] usually attempts to claim credit for the achievements of Iridos. They assert that they split the light of inspiration to reveal a spectrum of creativity. In the past, [[Diaphane]] and [[Narcissus]] did experience a few periods of animosity and conflict. These conflicts were mercifully brief events.

-- by shanoxilt

The truth of the matter has been carefully purged from the histories of [[Diaphane]]. The founding of Iridos had its origin during the Second Shattering. In that time, new advances had been made in tinting glass with vivid hues. New buildings and wonders were made, all of stained and colored glass, and the City of Glass took on translucent hues.

This led to great debates in the [[Diaphane|Crystalline Agora]], as citizens argued that the hues were a perversion of true Translucence. Eventually rabble-rousers whipped mobs of citizens into a frenzy, leading to the destruction of the colored glass in the Second Shattering. The surviving proponents accepted exile under the guise of founding the colony that became Iridos. The records, of course, were purged for the good of all.

The ruined Stained Quarter of [[Diaphane]] was never rebuilt. But it is still inhabited by squatters and the poor, since the broken shards there did not fracture the spirits of the Invisible World as they did in the other places of [[Cities_of_glass_history|Shattering]]. No spirit-storms of invisible shards occur there to strip flesh from bone as they do at the other Shattered places. There are rumors, though, that the seed of the chromatic tree was first found in the Stained Quarter...

-- by Kakita Kojiro