Pharos Reach (KDAU)

Introduction
Pharos Reach is a huge tower in the calm belt, constructed by the allied Shandian Exiles and the Hellpieans as a means to connect their seperate lands. The tower is large enough to occupy nearly all of the island it rests on, as well as being tall enough to reach the upper white sea, as well as extending a great distance below ground to the Dark Sea. The shear scale of this means that those that have seen it consider it a country in it's own right. It is also the primary home of the Nethan.

History
Pharos reach was raised around ten years prior to the infamous Paramount war, the last stand of Whitebeard, after the Shandian Exiles and the Hellpieans, who had formed an alliance due to the efforts of the Shandian hero John Jango de Triezieme, conceived it as a means of connecting their realms and allowing for much easier communications between their races. Construction progressed quickly due to the combined efforts of both races, and the use of powerful Devil fruit to aid tunneling and construction. Nevertheless, the tower took a year to complete. Members of both races began to travel up and down the tower, eager to see the other lands they were now linked to. The years that followed saw great changes in both species, due to trade between them, as well as closer contact between the races.

At the present day, Pharos Reach is now considered the third island controlled by the Shandian and Hellpiean allies, and is populated by both species. Interbreeding between the two species has also given rise to the Nethan, a race possessing the traits of both races. This still growing race inhabits Pharos reach primarily.