This island town was founded by a group of Isparians fleeing from the olthoi before the rise of Elysa Strathler and Thorsten Cragstone and the death of the olthoi queen. During their flight they discovered a portal to an archipelago to the southeast of what is now present day Mayoi. A man named Zenzaburou Hensu founded the town on the basis of Sho religious tenants, which some of the less "upright" refugees resented. These few left to found their own town, but the community of Kryst thrived in a land far less dangerous than their fellows' chosen location. The town remained isolated from the rest of Dereth until Leafcull, PY 11 (Should the Stars Fall) when new portals opened access to the archipelago once more.