Les Terres Mortes

Geography

This red gorge stands out on the golden-green surface of Aurum like an inflamed wound. Mantle plumes bring magma close to the planet’s surface, scorching the ground and regularly venting hot gases. The poisoned air and shocks of high temperature keeps anything from growing in this fissure, earning it and the surrounding plain their attribution in the Auran language. Soon after the Kill-team enters the Deadlands, the effects of the harsh, acidic air become apparent. Any character who does not pass a Difficult (–10) Toughness Test (modified by the Oolitic Kidney and Multi-lung) suffers a level of Fatigue. This Test increases to Hard (–20) if the character does not possess a functioning Mucranoid to protect them from the oppressive heat. This Fatigue cannot be removed from a character until he is out of the punishing environment. As the Battle-Brothers venture deeper into the broken ground, they can hear the sounds and see the silhouettes of midasaurs moving through the thick fumes. The sulphuric stench becomes punctuated by the even more stomachchurning scent of rotting flesh. It issues from a broken shelf of rock. An Ordinary (+10) Awareness Test spots several of the tracks Alkedre drew on the incline leading up to the shelf. They have found the Diablodon’s lair.

Type

Wasteland