Setting:Tabula Gloria/For'Channar/The Eternal Bridge
During the apologetic reign of Alexius II, the Emperor became known for two things. On one hand, he was loathed as seeking appeasement with the various peoples who wished to see the Empire's demise. The Drakonids to the east were given a well-timed reprieve from the constant war set against them. There was rumor that he was secretly working with the Stormlords in order to cede their old lands back, including Thagaisa and the rest of the lands south of Rausclef. There were even wild speculations that he was willing to negotiate a treaty with the dreaded Raptorlords of the north. On the other hand, perhaps as a result of the Emperor's candid belief that the Empire was entering a period of contraction and decline, he began to build a variety of monuments to the existence of the Empire for future peoples to discover were the Empire to end altogether. Despite the awful reasoning behind it, some of the people found a sense of pride in the Empire having monuments outside the walls of Tabula Gloria.
It was the latter half of the Emperor's personality which spawned an ambitious project at the mouth of the Eternal Flow, the river which pours forth from Alboniset Lake within the Phrennoack Forest, all the way to the northern cliffs of the area to pour in a mighty waterfall off of the edge. The Emperor commissioned the greatest civil works project of the time there - a bridge which would connect the Empire to the western Phrennoack Forest and beyond into the Wastes of Vashial. Beforehand, the best route was to take a boat from Twaunae and travel down Crenskaw Creek and through Alboniset Lake to the western bank, then trek through the dangerous western Phrennoack and then into the Wastes around the Ruins at Elbornet along the forest's edge, which was also home to the titanic Forest Harvester. With the greatest team of manual laborers and shapermages ever to be assembled at the time, the bridge would be built over a span of seventy years.
Unfortunately for the Emperor though, he would not live to see the bridge to completion, that honor going to his son Margurim IV who would have it completed if only for strategic reasons. At the center of the bridge also stands a building of its own, the Flame Cathedral, a testament to the long-lasting alliance between the Empire and the Eltyain, to serve as both a house of worship for the tribal folk of the forest as well as an outpost for researchers and armies seeking to go further west into Vashial.