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 Cenotaph
The Cenotaph
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Coordinates(-3162, -7229)
Description

The Wailing Cenotaph is the chilling, central edifice of Mourn-Spire, a vast monument where both Grave Whispers high priests reside and Blight-Touched alchemists perform their darkest rites. Its "throne" is a seat carved from petrified drowner-bones, perpetually seeping foul, iridescent water, surrounding by grotesque flesh-altars. Its function is to facilitate the ritualistic communion with shadowed deities and to interpret grim prophecies from both the dead and the blighted. Threats include uncontrolled undead manifestations erupting from within the Cenotaph's depths, uncontrolled mutations and blight eruptions caused by failed Blight-Touched experiments, spiritual backlash from angered mire entities during rituals, and a pervasive psychological decay among its inhabitants from constant exposure to compounded despair.

Appearance

Constructed from blackened stone veined with sickly green luminescence, the Cenotaph is adorned with grotesque carvings of weeping faces and twisted forms. Its spires pierce the sky, and spectral wails emanate from its depths, visible faintly as ghostly wisps around the structure.

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