A wasteland ravaged by a past calamity, now hostile to all life. The structure of reality is distorted within it, and those who enter have a tendency to come out mad.
A usually-fatal disease of the mind and body that infects those who tarry in the Desolation. In many ways the Maddening does not behave like a normal disease.
A calamity that destroyed the city of Ormithlor and scourged a vast swathe of Nalunara, creating the Desolation.
Once a thriving city specialising in magical knowledge, now a horror-infested ruin.
A race of beings corrupted by the disease called the Maddening.