Bonath

Bonath was a town in Northern Xerxes and the first town to be sacrificed in the name of the King's immortality. As a Transmutation Circle for the creation of a Philosopher's Stone was gradually built around the country, the people of Bonath are told that the leg of the circle near their town is an irrigation canal being built to help their crop production. The trusting and grateful Bonath citizens are initially happy that their King is paying so much attention to them, but are betrayed when the workers who had been digging the trench during the day ransack the village at night, killing all the people and livestock and burning the buildings to the ground so as to carve a crest of blood into the circle.