Amazandar

Amazandar, also known as the City of Gems was the capital of the Lost Kingdom of Anauria.

Geography
Amazandar was located west of the Desertsmouth Mountains, due west of the peak Rausrawna, known as Mount Shaddath to the Anaurian people, southwest of Ansauril, the City of Swords.

Geographical Features
The city lay above rich veins of gems that could be reached by numerous deep shafts and tunnels.

Trade
As the capital of Anauria, Amazandar dominated trade between Anauria, and the other survivor-states of ancient Netheril, Asram, and Hlondath.

History
The city was founded about the same year as Netheril's fall in. It would eventually have to contend with the encroaching Anauroch desert.

In the, pressures from the encroaching desert combined with large raids of goblins led by the orc shaman Andegril the Wise, caused the collapse of the kingdom of Anauria. Its survivors melted away into the surrounding kingdoms, melded into nomadic tribes or perished in the harsh conditions.

Rumors and Legends
A crypt system beneath a temple of Jergal in the city was said to house the fabulous tomb of King Thausimbel the Wise and his daughter, Queen Shaddara the Fair. In fact this underground tomb system merely held a portal that linked to a nexus beneath another false Thardresk Crypt beneath what would later be called the Serpent Hills. .

Inhabitants
Circa the, over a thousand years after the fall of Anuaria, the gem mines beneath Amazandar were inhabited by the phaerimm of the Buried Realms.