What is given is consumed, what is consumed is kept. Remember that, my child.

— A letter found on a cadaver deep in the Vastlands

Also known as the Breaking Curse, the Vastlands was a large nearly-uninhabitable desert and wasteland-like area, theorised to have once held the entirerty of the Broken Continent. In the past thousands of years, however, the Vastlands have shrunk but have not entirely disappeared. Its dunes and drylands are very much still present within the centre of the Broken Continent, along the Jagged Fjords and upon the Solemn Tower, both key features of the continent.

History

The Making of the Vastlands

The title of the Breaking Curse came from the Breaking Theory scholars, who believe that the continent was once whole and had been broken by the vanquishing of the legendary and possibly fictatious Dragon King. The The Church of Vid, otherwise known as the Church of Light, claims that the Vid Themself had given such power to the final blow that the world shook so hard and so long that the continent had begun to split and the Fjords of Fourcorners had come to be. The power was too much for the world and though it vanquished the foul King, it also destroyed much of the continent, whether by sinking it or by making sure that nothing would grow on it for a thousand years.
Others theorise serious seismic activity, other magical sources, or even theorise that no such Breaking had ever occurred and that the continent had always been such as it is.

Survivors

While much of the flora and fauna of the continent is presumed to have gone (near)exctinct, some of the people lived. Members of the Lost Mortan Empire, for one, are theorised to have gathered and survived through various magical means, though the desert to this day is hungry for magic, eating it up before it can do much. Legends and stories have been found of walking towns which used technology and magic far more advanced than that of the modern world and there are often references of something called the Bubble in surviving documents, though whether it was a religious symbol or not remains unclear, as it is described as a "heaven unto this pale, putrid place, [...] its golden gates open to only the best".

Type

Desert

Location under

Phragros