Sharok

Sharok was sacked by Eastern invaders and profiteers during the Great War when it suddenly became fashionable for Eastern aristocrats and rulers, when mostly in line with social conventions, to have skilled and enslaved courtesans within their own harems. The most desirable were the Sharoki Phantoms, who were the Emperor's trained-from-birth and specially selected concubines. Since Eastern girls and women were captured during raids from Western crews as spoils of war, and many of these went off to be trained to satisfy the curiosity of Western kings, Eastern rulers recaptured Eastern concubines and, in a haze of scandal, elected to keep them rather than liberate them. The whole concubine issue became fashionable overnight after a lot of rulers pretty much decided they would revert back on centuries of tradition and have themselves a secretive harem. It was this moral crisis that also contributed to the social upheaval during the war. Eventually these fell out of favour as it appeared that any ruler who kept a harem had a mysterious tendency to end up dead.

Shohfodu (Prince) Adrean Ietem commissioned a second palace, the Yerzlat Palace to be constructed at Sharok to give him better access to the facilities there. Whilst his father stayed in Reddega, Adrean spent most of his time there tending to his sex slaves and doing not much of anything. The palace was sacked and ruined along with the rest of the city during the Great War but you can go see the ruins and find out more about the whole charade at the Yerzlat Palace Museum, if you weren't busy enough shagging all the locals. Sharok tried to rebuild their heritage and reputation after the seige but it's a lot more depressing and seedy than the heydays of its past.