The Mining City of Undercurrents

Crookes was a mining city within the bowels of the Valla Empire. Mount Meredith, which stood over its rear was where the citizens of Crookes mined excellent Illum crystals and a fine variety of surface ores, which was perhaps how Crookes got its name, which meant 'rich mountain capital' in an ancient tongue

In the beginning, this place was a wilderness, but after the founding of the Valla Empire who conferred it to Tyler Meredith—an avid explorer and a noble, he discovered scores of rich mineral veins on the unnamed mountain, and began to organize groups of people to mine everything.

He later named the unnamed mountain after himself, which eventually became one of the most important mountain mines of the Valla Empire.