Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
Unless the lore was well-known, set well in advance, and somehow too liked to be worth ret-conning, you'll almost always have the causation backwards here.

The zone isn't barren because the city was destroyed; the city was "destroyed" so that the zone design could be barren.

The concept almost always comes first, with the lore merely getting you there.
Did you like skip the duty with CID or the GNB questline?