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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Grotto of Living Scars
Grotto of Living Scars
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Coordinates(-8687, 5005)
Description

Deep within a storm-battered isle of the Cinder Archipelago, the Coralline Anatomists have carved their headquarters into a massive, living reef. The Grotto of Living Scars is not built, but grown from grotesque coral, fused bone-coral, and salvaged shipwreck parts. The entire structure pulses with a sickly, bio-luminescent light, its walls lined with intricate, bleeding veins of magical corruption. This is the central laboratory for the Anatomists’ vile art. Within, surgical tables made of polished, jagged coral are stained with dark blood, and immense vats of corrosive fluids bubble with dissolving flesh. Here, they conduct gruesome rituals of transformation on drowned victims and captured beings, fusing their forms with razor-sharp coral and phosphorescent growths. The grotto's purpose is to transcend the Tiefling form, a horrifying workshop where new life is created from death, and the blighted ecosystem is weaponized in a grotesque, pulsing, living monument to their art.

Appearance

The grotto is formed from fused bone-coral and salvaged shipwreck parts, glowing with sickly light and lined with bleeding veins of magical corruption. Jagged coral tables stained with dark blood and bubbling vats of corrosive fluids fill the space.

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