Editing Diaphane (section)

====The Stained Quarter====

During the time of the [[Cities_of_glass_history|Second Shattering]]  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 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 [[Cities_of_glass_history|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 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 [[Spirit_world|Invisible World]] as they did in the other places of Shattering. No spirit-storms of invisible shards occur there to strip flesh from bone as they do at the other Shattered places.

-- by Kakita Kojiro