The Abasko Mountains stretch 500 miles from the rocky cliffs of Fool's Point to the fetid bay of the Blighted Marshes. Throughout all of that 500 mile stretch, the shoreline is jagged and dangerous, harbouring unseen rocks that will tear the bottom from a ship barely within sight of land. Yet along this uniniting and murderous coast there is one great city - Tobaro, the City of Sirens.

Tobaro is unreachable from the west because of the mountains, and virtually unapproachable by sea bacause of the surrounding Fool's Rocks. Only Tobaran pilots can safely navigate the rocks; many a bestormed merchantmen has fallen to their wrecking bite, only to have its cargo recovered by the salvagers of the City of Sirens.

Legend recalls a time when the entire coast echoed to the call of creatures that flew upon the air and made their foul nests amongst the crags and towering sea-cliffs. Eons of their scrapings and scratchings contributed to the erosion of natural sea caves until at one spot the entire cliff became riddled with their delvings. Then the Elves came, and broke through the great rocks that lie along the coast, and drove out the nightmarish winged creatures.

In their turn, the Elves enlarged the caves, building seven mighty sea gates and a huge, enclosed harbour beyond - a cavern domed like a great cathedral and large enough to hide a fleet. The cliffside was turned into a wondrous city, unique among all the Elvish settlements of that time. They bored deep into the mountains and discovered secret valleys beyond. Then the Elves forsook the Old World following the Elf-Dwarf Wars, and the City of Sirens remained abandoned until the Tileans rediscoved the passage through the rocks and the entances to the hidden harbour beyond. They drove the cliff-dwelling creatures that had taken up residence and resetlled the city, and named the city Tobaro.

The Tobarans trade in silver and gemstones from the surrounding mountains. The sea provides a plentiful, if somewhat monotonous diet, while the high valleys offer some agriculture.