The Riven Lands world illustration - Grimdark theme
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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.


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The Divine Retribution
The Divine Retribution
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Coordinates(-3132, -7206)
Description

The Divine Retribution is Dirge Dominion's brutal, absolute court, its judgments delivered in the Wailing Cenotaph's perpetually dim chambers. Its purpose is to enforce absolute obedience to the theocracy, judging all who deviate from the path of sacred decay and transformation. Crimes such as disturbing sacred graves, resisting blighted transformation, or seeking unauthorized "cleansing" condemn one to forced servitude: perpetual communion with tormenting spirits, their minds shattered by endless whispers, agonizing flesh-alteration into grotesque forms, or grueling labor in festering blight-pits. Desecrating a sacred crypt or attempting to raise a forbidden entity leads to execution: "The Necrotic Bloom" – the condemned is ritually flayed, their body preserved with foul chemicals, and then meticulously used as a puppet in gruesome necromantic rituals, their agony a permanent, silent display for the League's glory.

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Perpetually dim, shadowed chambers filled with eerie whispers and spectral figures. Walls are lined with crypts and necromantic symbols, with a central dais for judgment and grim instruments of punishment.

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