The Riven Lands world illustration - Grimdark theme
Grimdark

The Riven Lands

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Ithikari

The Riven Lands are a fractured realm born from a magical event, The Sundering which violently pulled people from countless realities into a bleeding scar across existence. Magic here is a vile, twisting curse, its power warping flesh and mind. Its inhabitants, xenophobic and without loyalty, cling to life amidst decaying lands, endless wars, and horrifying Gods that everyone worships in some form. Hope is a lie; only brutal struggle remains in this world drowned in cynicism and sheer cruelty.


Author's Note: 100 NPCs, 300+ POI's, Custom classes, Monsters and items.
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Spore-Blossom Reach
Spore-Blossom Reach
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TypeBlighted Cultivation Town
Description

Spore-Blossom Reach is a small, unnervingly quiet town within Malcoria, where buildings subtly pulse with unseen life. Its purpose: grim cultivation of unique, blighted flora/fauna for Malcoria's Tiefling experiments, and processing resulting abominations. The town's river inlet landing is slick with foul, iridescent slime. You'll find gaunt Human and Tiefling laborers tending grotesque gardens, bodies bearing minor mutations. Work involves cultivating mutated plants, harvesting strange fluids, or assisting in "specimen" care. Threats include unpredictable mutations affecting residents, localized engineered blight outbreaks, aberrations escaping, and the psychological toll of constant exposure to grotesque processes, eroding sanity.

Appearance

Buildings subtly pulse as if alive, with walls covered in creeping fungal growths. The river inlet landing is slick with foul, iridescent slime, and grotesque mutated plants and twisted vines dominate the landscape, casting eerie shadows over the gaunt, mutated laborers working silently.

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