Editing Edge Chronicles (section)

===Sanctaphrax===
Situated on the far end of the Stone Garden, at the very pinnacle of the Edge, Sanctaphrax is the Edge's single greatest city-state during the First Age of Flight. Built atop the single largest flight rock ever seen, Sanctaphrax is a city of academics, scientists and sky-pilots, the hub of all knowledge on the Edge - especially all knowledge related to the weather and all things that fly. It forms a symbiotic link with Undertown, which lies literally below it.

Constructing atop a flight rock poses a natural problem: how do you keep your precious city from just drifting off into the air like a balloon when the levitation abilities of the stone outgrows the space you can actually build stuff on it? During the First Age of Flight, the answer is a vault filled with total darkness, in which precious stormphrax is contained.

Towards the waning years of the First Age, however, under the mismanagement of Vilnix Pompolnius, Most High Academe, the decision is made to use increasing amounts of massive and heavy chains to hold the city to the ground. The fact that this causes terrible pollution in the local water supply is combated with the use of water-purifying phraxdust... ironically, this leads to a Catch-22 situation; Vilnix stealthily depletes the city's stormphrax supplies to fuel his experiments in trying to figure out how to make more phraxdust, as it was a lucky accident in the first place, but this just makes the city lighter and lighter, causing the need for more chains and thus ''more'' phraxdust to battle the pollution.

Although Sanctaphrax was saved by an unlikely hero, ironically, it would all turn out to be for naught. You see, the Edge depends on a single mighty river, the Edgewater, to provide it with life, but the river is fed from a once-every-few-thousand-years storm, the Mother Storm. And towards the very end of the First Age, a Mother Storm blew in... but Sanctaphrax was right in its way. The same hero who had originally saved the city from flying off in the first place now had no choice but to sever the Great Chain tying it to the ground and let it loose into the sky, or the Mother Storm would have smashed through the city and vented all its water before reaching the Edgewater's source, causing the extinction of all life on the Edge in a millennia-long drought.

As the Mother Storm sailed through where Sanctaphrax had once been, it let loose a single massive bolt of lightning, which struck a lift rock in the Stone Gardens and caused it to begin growing to massive size. '''New Sanctaphrax''' was planned to be constructed atop it... and then stone sickness hit; more than half of the giant stone rotted away and it began to sink back to earth, resulting in the hasty construction of an every-growing forest of supports and buttresses to try and hold it aloft, a dark mirror to the old Sanctaphrax. Taken over by a cult led by a mad academic, New Sanctaphrax would ultimately be destroyed by an artificially engineered storm of devastating power, which tore the region apart and drove all life away to resettle elsewhere.

Ironically, during the Third Age of Flight, the original Sanctaphrax would drift back down to the Edge after nearly six hundred years in open sky.