ARAGAIN VILLAGE
Aragain Village was a little known colony in the central
Eastlands,
planted in the midst of the
Dark
Forest. It had largely been known for
the
waterfall
which shared its name (one of the favorite places in the
Great Underground
Empire for honeymooning couples to accidentally fall
to their deaths). The Frobozz Magic Vault for the Aragain Village
branch of the
Bank of Zork
was constructed in 722 GUE.
TRANSFORMATION TO
FLATHEADIA
Having spent countless vacations overseas, Lord
Dimwit Flathead shared
the
fondness of
Duncanthrax
for the uncharted territories of the Eastlands.
Thus when he ascended to the throne in 770, he decided to move the
capital of
Quendor from
Egreth in the
Westlands to Aragain Village
when
the seat of government would remain until the
fall of the Empire in 883. The small hamlet was replaced with the 8,600
square bloit monstrosity known as Castle
Flatheadia, which was
built
literally on top of the unsuspecting villagers (rumor has it that some
of the crude huts and tents are still occupied in the lower basement
levels of the castle). Some bitter, unappreciative chroniclers have
described Dimwit’s castle at Flatheadia as his biggest folly. In a
surprisingly short amount of time, that small village was transformed
and renamed,
quickly becoming the center of civilization at it was then known. Since
the
completion of
Megaboz's
curse on
Curse Day of
883, all that sits upon
its former site is a small historical
White
House.
| SOURCE(S): various
(Zork I, Zork Zero, etc) |