Atlantis was a city on an iceberg. They got around on ice-skates, lived in rooms like those awesome ice-hotels, and grew strange plants whose roots gave off heat to melt the ice, and drank that way. They preserved their dead in caves far below the water line, so that you could still see the old kings, frozen forever.
They traded with Egypt, Greece and Turkey, and one of the protagonists is a youth from one of these cultures who once stole from the trading ship of the Atlanteans, and was taken back by them as an indentured servant. Along with another youth, who is dedicated to a career in magical science, they uncover a plot to research powerful magic/science that will enable them to move the city into warmer waters, without it melting. They're growing too big, and they're after a nice fat empire with slaves and such, and they're going for the protagonist's homeland.
So yeah, the end is kind of a given :P The city melts into the ocean -- never to be found, because it moved in the first place so how anyone's meant to locate it...or as a twist, it doesn't melt, they manage to steer it into colder [is this supposed to say warmer?] waters, give up their ideas of conquest, and gradually abandon their magic and science in favor of being able to feel their toes. Yeah, I never really got further than the setting, but hey, if anyone's after a basic premise like this, please do plunder it.
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