Editing Dark Ring (section)

==== ''Uninvadable'' ====
No army has ever successfully attacked and held a pallid city. This is because the Sadians do not fight. They simply enter the tunnel systems around their city, collapse the way behind them, and then leave. Invading forces must dig their way into the city only to realize that it is abandoned. Many leave the abandoned city after destroying it. Others attempt to hold the city only for the Nyx to burrow inside in the night and launch a surprise attack. 

The best example of this is when the Nomarch Rahem Sadek led an army of ten-thousand Karians into Neath. They took the city without incident and set up encampments. Three days later a terrible sandstorm blew through the area causing them to be unable to escape the catacombs. The sandstorm, known now as the Grim Gale, broke after two days. When it did, a little more than three thousand beleaguered Karians ran from Neath. Over those three days the Nyx tore through their defenses and made the streets of Neath run red with Karian blood. Many agree that if the storm hadn’t broken that day, the Karians would have been wiped out by the next morning. 

It is for this reason that despite their exposed nature, the other nations around the Sea of Screams refuse to attack the pallid cities.