Editing Ama Shuya (section)

== History ==
The origins of Ama Shuya are largely unknown. Most believe that the goddess Qualyn raised the ziggurat up from the earth when Avo itself was created. She gathered the earth from nearby, creating the Ama Osora in the process. Then, to keep the ziggurat stable, she grew the Guphor Ama, whose roots grew into the earth and held it together.

Many Deneshaean oral traditions speak of the ancient seafaring gnomes who populate the coasts in modern times, and how they were first to discover the ziggurat thousands of years ago. Today, gnomes make up roughly 40% of the population of Ama Shuya and are effectively the government of the city.

While internal war and strife plagued Deneshae as much as it did the rest of Avo, Ama Shuya remained largely untouched by battle, and the few times the city was besieged, the attackers never were able to penetrate into the ziggurat itself. Gnome stories tell of Qualyn delivering bountiful harvests of fruit and roots to the people inside the ziggurat during sieges, keeping the populace well-fed until the attackers could be properly dealt with.