The Netherworld
Realm of The Beasts
Supported entirely by Fel energies and magic, the Netherworld is home to a myriad of strange and outlandish creatures.
The Netherworld is a small dimension which contains only one small world, a broken planet called the Continent. The walls between the Netherworld and the Mortal Plane are sheer on the Nether side, causing a minuscule part of the empty sky above the Continent to be dotted with millions of tiny, far away stars. The Nether contains a giant tornado of Fel energy twisting around the Continent, occasionally tearing off chunks of the ground. This Fel Storm is held back only by Fae magic.
The Continent itself is a remnant of a time long passed, when the Nether contained a small solar system of planets. During the Cataclysm of the Nether, Fel energies corrupted every living thing within the Netherworld and tore apart the celestial bodies that supported those lives. As a result, only the Continent is left, a desolate half-planet kept in place and held together with the perfect balance of Fel energies and Fae magic.
An artist's impression of a map of the Netherworld.
Geography
The Continent
The Continent has 9 regions, each with wildly different climates and environments, ranging from a volcanic rockland to a dense forest, from mould-infested marshlands to snow-covered wastelands. These regions are separated from each other by height differences and miles of dead, dried rock. These dead zones are rich in Fae magic, keeping them mostly glued together.The Valley Plains
The Valley Plains are found in the centre of the Continent, a grassy land in the eye of the storm. It is the least affected by the Fel Vortex, a fertile land split in two by its deep valley. The land flattens as it moves toward the north of the Continent, the only pure water source of the Netherworld found in the form of a small lake in this flat land. Chunks of land, ripped from other regions during the Cataclysm, sit far above the Valley to form floating islands. The Valley Plains is the only region of the Continent whose sky is not taken up by the view of the Fel Vortex.Venvil Swamp
Located to the southwest of the Valley, Venvil Swamp is a humid wetland, whose water is contaminated by both the Fel energy of the Netherworld and the Fel creatures who dwell in the marshlands.The Broken Mountains
To the southwest of Venvil Swamp lies the Broken Mountains, a jagged and scarred land battered by violent winds from the Fel Vortex. It is near impossible for the known sapient species to traverse, as the angles of the mountain peaks hide the depth of the drop below. Furthermore, the mountains themselves are sharp enough to cut through Orc hide, worn thin by the winds that are channelled through this region.Wenelm Fireplains
The scorching lands of Wenelm are found to the north of the Broken Mountains. The dry land is cracked by rivers of bizarre lava which flows from the looming volcano that dominates the south of Wenelm. The lava is a strange, murky green with streams of acidic yellow mixed in.Darkwood
To the northeast of Wenelm, the mystic forest of Darkwood stretches across the land. With gnarled and twisted trees reaching toward the Vortex, light only filters to the floor of Darkwood in patches, making the forest all the harder to navigate.The Corrupt Expanse
A barren, desolate stretch of dry rock, the ground of the Expanse is coloured a sickly purple with veins of pure Fel energy running through it, staining areas a dark green. To the east of the lush Darkwood, the Corrupt Expanse is a harsh environment, with only a select few lifeforms surviving in the wasteland.Bretlin's Abyss
Found south of the Corrupt Expanse, Bretlin's Abyss is an equally harsh environment, a wide-open plain of ice. Snow whips across the flat land, sometimes even dragged into other regions by the wind, though it quickly melts elsewhere.Stormisles
To the east of the Abyss, these broken islands float on the very edge of the Vortex, crushed and torn apart by the strength of the Cataclysm. Slowly, the islands of Stormisles are being sucked into the Vortex itself. Within a century or 2, Stormisles will be destroyed and the little life it supports will be destroyed with it.Hel's Badlands
South of Bretlin's Abyss and southeast of Venvil Swamp, Hel's Badlands is the largest region of the Continent. It is a barren and dry wasteland, almost uninhabitable. Lakes of Voidmatter rest in the east, acting as the beating heart of the land to send Voidmatter through cracks in the bedrock of the Badlands, like veins carrying lifeforce through the land as they snake toward the mountains. The Voidmatter falls into the pores of the mountains, spilling over to fall down the other side of the mountains, running into the west.Table of Contents
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Alternative Name(s)
The Nether
Type
Dimensional, Pocket
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