Varkaria, the City of Arcanists, was an Omniborn settlement in northern Aurial during the First Era. One of the few northern cities of the Temporal Empire, it was a city of mages and arcanists conducting magical experiments. It was built on the shore of the modern Rockloch in the Terrosi Grasslands, digging deep into the ravine that surrounds the lake.

The city met its end alongside most other Omniborn cities during the Cometfall in 1E977. Although it wasn't destroyed completely, the earthquake caused a lot of collapse within the city and most of its population of Omniborn disappeared. Varkaria did not have a sizable population of non-Omniborn, so the city was left a ruin and not rebuilt by the other races unlike some of the other nearby Omniborn cities.

When the goddess Tempos entered her slumber, this city was where Time Gear Beta was stored and guarded for thousands of years even after its ruin. Another powerful 'artifact' stored in Varkaria was the skull of the archfey-lich Zuq'zeen the Mighty. By the Third Era, the city's ruins were covered up by the misty Rockholz forest.

In 3E482, the Department of Dungeons led an expedition to Varkaria funded by Duke Gabryel von Gothwyn of Rockham to locate the Time Gear during the events of Shards of the Empire. The Krono Krew fought Gothwyn for the Time Gear and claimed it for themselves with the help of the guardian Galdip. They also revived Zuq'zeen and freed him from Varkaria.