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HOLY CATHEDRAL OF MERI, SILENT GROVE & THE SKELETAL WILDS

Region: Far southeast coast | Patron faith: Meri (site), though the surrounding land no longer reflects her | Governance: A small, dedicated remnant clergy maintaining the cathedral itself

Overview

A large, isolated, decaying Gothic cathedral — cracked spires, broken stained glass, faceless worn statues — standing alone near the coast. Once Meri's greatest seat, now surrounded by two connected dead forests: the eerily silent Silent Grove and the more visibly twisted Skeletal Wilds.

History

No one fully agrees on when or why the surrounding land began dying — the cathedral's own remaining clergy maintain it happened gradually, over generations, and resist framing it as connected to any single event. Campaign 1's chapel (now destroyed) sat within the Silent Grove, adding a second, more recent layer of "wrongness" to land that was already considered unsettling before the Cult of Hunger ever arrived.

Culture and Daily Life

Pilgrims still come, in smaller numbers each year. The remaining clergy are devoted rather than naive — they know exactly how the site looks to outsiders and maintain it anyway, on the theory that a light worth having is worth keeping lit even when fewer people come to see it.