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| - Alent was an ancient nation in the First Age. It was technologically advanced and ruled from a floating continent. Knowledge of how the Empire of Alent collapsed is lost to the mists of time, but collapse it did, and the world below the floating continent forgot that Alent had existed. Though they could still see the floating continent overhead, the people below were unable to fly to Alent and recover the knowledge which had been lost. The forgotten nation was rediscovered during the Sydney Losstarot War when Raistlin I and Britton Leonhart stumbled upon a hidden, magical passage to the floating continent of Alent, but couldn't consider the importance of it until after the war. With the help of Britt and several clerics, Raistlin harnessed enough magical power to trap the powerful demon Yurius away so that he could further study the Spell of Banishment. During all this, the Floating Continent of Alent was refurnished by the people of the nation of Cardia. The co-rulers of Cardia, Raistlin and Britt, moved the capital of Cardia to the city of Alent upon the floating continent. When Raistlin finally banished Yurius, the shock to the world was great. Continents moved, the sea flooded the lands, and the Floating Continent of Alent fell to land in the sea, and over time the descendants forgot about Alent and its former glory.
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