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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The Charnel Choir
The Charnel Choir
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TypeTheocratic Domain
Description

The Charnel Choir is a chilling Theocracy nestled deep within the Bleak-Shale Straits, its Blight-Touched priesthood obsessed with the sacred nature of decay and transformation. They worship a deity of pervasive corruption, believing suffering is a holy act. Their purpose is to spread their grim faith, transforming both land and flesh into twisted monuments. Slavery is integral, with captives of all races serving as unwilling subjects for flesh-twisting experiments, as living vessels for spreading blight, or forced into ritualistic torment to honor their gods. Threats include the proliferation of their own blight becoming uncontrollable, escalating madness from their dark devotion, constant incursions from Deep-Crawlers who view them as a grotesque food source, eager to purge or consume them, and monsters drawn to the sheer concentration of misery, all within the volatile geological confines of the Straits.

Appearance

A bleak, jagged landscape of dark shale cliffs and twisted, corrupted flora; temples and shrines built from bone and corrupted stone; enslaved captives chained in grotesque flesh-altering devices; pervasive mists of blight and decay hanging heavy in the air.

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