Hot Gates

Hot Gates was a town on Southernesse's eastern coast.Presumably once settled by the Númenóreans it was discovered by the gondorian explorer Valacar in TA 899 who called it "Minas Telperien" or "Port of the Pillar", after the remnants of the monumental númenórean Sun-Pillar of Tar-Telperien he found.1014 his anchorage was destroyed by a flood and rebuilt by "natives" under the new name "Hot Gates".TA 1066 Hot Gate's slaves revoltex, the old ruling class was overthrown and the former slaves established a small realm on their own.The town later became a center for the Cult of Efnisyen, the Cult of the One-person and the Elementalist-cult.