The Uncanny Valley
The Uncanny Valley is a strange, magical place that lies on the fringes of the world between the Kingdom of Camelot and the Realm of Broceliande. Seemingly forgotten by time and the progress of the Age of Enchantment, the Valley is littered with pieces of the mortal world Albion believed it left behind: statuary, ruined monuments, The Field of Shattered Shields.
Geography
The Uncanny Valley is a flat-floor valley beyond the Kingdom of Camelot, believed to have been created during the Apostasy ritual that tore the realm of Albion free of the mortal realm. Because of the violent manner in which the Valley was formed, its geological features experience a great range in elevation and climate.
Fauna & Flora
Specter Bees
- Believed to be one of a myriad of Apostasy side effects, these bees can affect the physical world, but are not physically present in it. They also make honey that becomes an absolutely spectacular spectral marmalade.
History
The Uncanny Valley did not appear, to our knowledge, until the year 0 After Apostasy. Its existence is believed to be a natural result of severing Albion's physical connections to the mortal realm and represents the edges of our known world.
Tourism
Slumbering Giant
Almost a deliberate structure at first blush, this towering mountain forms the highest point of elevation in the valley. Surrounded by glacial serocs and jagged cols in its higher elevations and alternating chasms and natural plateaus swept by unseasonably warm wind at its lower elevations, the mountain is particularly treacherous to climb and as such, none have yet been recorded to have reached its summit.
The Field of Shattered Shields
Remnants of an ancient battle litter a vast, fog-encrusted moor. Rusted swords jut from the ground with bloodstained palm prints on the hilt, held in place for all eternity by moss and the rib cages into which they were once violently thrust. Skeletons trapped in rictus clutch mangled shields by rotting leather thongs, as useless now as they must have been in action. Everywhere, shattered pieces of shields once cast in silver, in bronze, in pure gold, in materials whose names have been lost to time and hubris.
The Druxy Forest
The fetid, fungal, far reaches of the Druxy Forest is where the majority of high-ranking Uncanny make their home. As a culture, the Uncanny typically prefer to live amongst things that they view to be as corrupted as they themselves are. Beginning sparsely where Camelot's Occasus meets the border of the Uncanny Valley, the Druxy Forest reaches its greatest density at the lowest elevation of the Valley, an area colloquially known as Chromista or the Under Valley. It is the best guess of historians that the forest represents a sort of magical infarction following the Apostasy — little is known about it beyond the extensive notes collected by Archmage Ambrosius in the early After-Apostasy era, but what has been recorded suggests that the Valley is rife with magic both tamed and untamed.
Almost a deliberate structure at first blush, this towering mountain forms the highest point of elevation in the valley. Surrounded by glacial serocs and jagged cols in its higher elevations and alternating chasms and natural plateaus swept by unseasonably warm wind at its lower elevations, the mountain is particularly treacherous to climb and as such, none have yet been recorded to have reached its summit.
The Field of Shattered Shields
Remnants of an ancient battle litter a vast, fog-encrusted moor. Rusted swords jut from the ground with bloodstained palm prints on the hilt, held in place for all eternity by moss and the rib cages into which they were once violently thrust. Skeletons trapped in rictus clutch mangled shields by rotting leather thongs, as useless now as they must have been in action. Everywhere, shattered pieces of shields once cast in silver, in bronze, in pure gold, in materials whose names have been lost to time and hubris.
The Druxy Forest
The fetid, fungal, far reaches of the Druxy Forest is where the majority of high-ranking Uncanny make their home. As a culture, the Uncanny typically prefer to live amongst things that they view to be as corrupted as they themselves are. Beginning sparsely where Camelot's Occasus meets the border of the Uncanny Valley, the Druxy Forest reaches its greatest density at the lowest elevation of the Valley, an area colloquially known as Chromista or the Under Valley. It is the best guess of historians that the forest represents a sort of magical infarction following the Apostasy — little is known about it beyond the extensive notes collected by Archmage Ambrosius in the early After-Apostasy era, but what has been recorded suggests that the Valley is rife with magic both tamed and untamed.
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