Old Coppania Lowlands
Something is seriously twisted in these old river beds. I am telling ye, Gazezu is not pleased with men simply diverting a river. Now we have thorns and fowl air and bad tasting mushrooms everywhere!
The Old Coppannia Lowlands is an area south of Padaccia and the original path of the river Coppanias, before it got diverted with the help of the Copperdam. After diverting the river, the soil left behind proved to be tainted by some sort of dark magic and it rendered the area inhospitable for Humans, Elves, Dwarves, and Orcs alike.
Dangerous Flora
Most plants that are able to grow here have been twisted into some darker variant of themselves by the tainted soil. Flowers will have grown thorns or turned into mushrooms, thorned vines are creeping across the floor, choking the plants underneath it and constricting passage through the area. Large Trees are suffocated by dark red moss, rotten to the core. The air is heavy to breathe and full of poisonous spores from the large amounts of fungi growing in the dark.
It is theorized that over the centuries, many seeds of Renseng have been collecting in the river bed, with their potent hallucinogenic agents seeping deep into the soil. After the Coppanias got diverted and the area dried up, the soil gave nutrition only to hardy plants that were able to adapt.
An additional theory considers the preexistence of some magical taint in the area, that had been undetected before. Others blame the dark influence of Zecod that was mostly present in old Ethoras but could have reached this far northwest, beyond the Ethorian Sea of the flodded nation. A definitive explanation has not been found so far.
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