Scorched Lands
Once the surface was a place of life. Full of lush forests, meadows, marshes, swamps and deep oceans that all the races of the world dwelled in but that time was long ago.
Many millenia ago the conflict known as the War of the Ancients caused the cataclysmic event known commonly as the Bright.
Now the surface is a mostly barren wasteland. Most bodies of water, even oceans, have disappeared completely.
With only the Penumbral Cloak being left after the ravaging of the elemental Realm of Shadow "night" in the Scorched Lands is merely twilight and only in certain regions it cools down enough during this time that life can use this time to recuperate from the oppressive heat of the daytime.
Following the Bright all great civilizations on the surface crumbled and most people either died out or migrated to the Deeplands in the Great Exodus.
Those that stayed and adapted most commonly share melanated skin and now, millenia since the onset of the Bright, there are once again nations and empires spanning the Scorched Wastes.
Of the people of the Deeplands the Dwarves are the only ones that regularly trade with the surface with the great cave city of Deephold being home to the Mechanical Wonderwork, a machine built before the Bright that lifts people and things many miles up through a vertical tunnel creating a point of entry to the Deeplands.
The Scorched Lands still carry a spark of life in them: at the center of the Prime World Disk lie the Heartlands where stretches of dry savannas and even small patches of woodlands protected by the magick of powerful druids resist the deadly heat of the Seven Suns.
Many millenia ago the conflict known as the War of the Ancients caused the cataclysmic event known commonly as the Bright.
Now the surface is a mostly barren wasteland. Most bodies of water, even oceans, have disappeared completely.
With only the Penumbral Cloak being left after the ravaging of the elemental Realm of Shadow "night" in the Scorched Lands is merely twilight and only in certain regions it cools down enough during this time that life can use this time to recuperate from the oppressive heat of the daytime.
Following the Bright all great civilizations on the surface crumbled and most people either died out or migrated to the Deeplands in the Great Exodus.
Those that stayed and adapted most commonly share melanated skin and now, millenia since the onset of the Bright, there are once again nations and empires spanning the Scorched Wastes.
Of the people of the Deeplands the Dwarves are the only ones that regularly trade with the surface with the great cave city of Deephold being home to the Mechanical Wonderwork, a machine built before the Bright that lifts people and things many miles up through a vertical tunnel creating a point of entry to the Deeplands.
The Scorched Lands still carry a spark of life in them: at the center of the Prime World Disk lie the Heartlands where stretches of dry savannas and even small patches of woodlands protected by the magick of powerful druids resist the deadly heat of the Seven Suns.
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