First up are maps. We are in a place called Sycla. North of the desert, towards the west, with a sea and some mountainous lands to the north, is Arelon. On the north coast at the mouth of a river is Elantris. Next to Elantris is the city of Kae, which has a circular wall. Elantris has a square wall and rather oddly there are stairs up the wall on the outside.
Why would anyone put stairs on the outside of a defensive wall?
The prologue explains that Elantris was once a golden city of wonder whose inhabitants, selected at random by some magical process called The Shaod, lived forever with endless wealth and power. Until it all went wrong.
Presumably we are about to find out what went wrong and why, and maybe even how to fix it.
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