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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Despair Bloom Nursery
Despair Bloom Nursery
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Coordinates(-7073, 1723)
Description

The Despair Bloom Nursery is a chilling cultivation site within Weeping Grove, tended by Shadar-kai. Its purpose is to harvest despair itself: here, rare, blighted flora are cultivated that thrive solely on concentrated sorrow and anguish. These plants produce potent melancholic drugs that offer a brief, false peace, or serve to intensify spiritual despair in others, acting as a perverse agricultural engine of human suffering.

Appearance

Fields of dark, twisted plants with drooping, blackened petals and faintly glowing veins. The air is heavy with a sorrowful aura, and the ground is littered with wilted leaves and broken stems. Shadar-kai, shadowy figures cloaked in tattered robes, silently tend the plants under a perpetually overcast sky.

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