Dementerria

**Dementerria** is a haunting world, filled with abominations of all kinds. From towering darkness filled forests, to twitching, corrupted versions of the wildlife we have on Earth, it’s a world no person with any shred of sanity would dare wander into by choice.

## Description

Dementerria is an infinite world, and it occupies the entire universe it is situated in. Unlike worlds in our universe, Dementerria is not circular, rather, it is an infinite plane, filled with infinite continents, infinite oceans, and infinite depths. The sky above the world is infinite, and fluctuates from gray, dark gray, and deepest black. The sky of Dementerria does not have any stars, planets, or galaxies- just an endless expanse of intermixing dark gray clouds.

## Origins

Long ago, Dementerria was like any other world, being more prosperous than our own. But those days weren’t to last. From outside the limits of comprehension itself, far beyond the limits of their reality, or the limits of any other, some *thing* had been stirring. A phenomenon that had existed for so long that not even infinity could begin to describe its age, for it transcended even that. For the longest time, the civilizations of pre-Dementerria had been digging deeper and deeper into the laws and forces that governed their reality, gaining more and more control over it. It seemed there was no end to the depth of cause and effect that lead to the existence of their universe; one law and force was governed by another, and another, deeper and deeper, the concepts becoming evermore abstract and complex. They then reached a point where they thought they had reached the bottom of the rabbit hole. They had discovered the *thing*. As observation miraculously collapses the waveform of a subatomic particle, their very discovery changed the fabric of the totality of *existence*- and, it drew the attention of the *thing*. The phenomenon they had discovered did indeed have a form of self-awareness and intent, but cognitive functions and synapses so bizarre and foreign that not even a thousand of the most talented philosophers and scientists could ever hope to comprehend it.

With the mere knowledge of its existence (and the thing’s knowledge of them), the thing began to twist their reality, corrupt it, *break* it. The structure of their universe changed, the structure of their world changed- EVERYTHING changed. Much of civilization was killed by the corruption, and the subsequent things born of that cataclysm. A single, tiny civilization remained, surrounded by an infinite world filled with terrors incomprehensible and comprehensible alike, where no human being, the weak or the strong, was safe. The age of prosperity was over, and the *eternity* of horror had begun.

## Habitats

Dementerria has many differing types of horrific habitats, but the most common of which are the massive evergreen forests (though the trees of which are not "green", just shades of gray and black, as most plants of Dementerria are). In these forests, the spruce and pine-like trees can reach over an excess of 500 feet or more. These forests are among the darkest places in Dementerria, and are filled with horrors of all shapes and sizes. These forests are commonly permeated by a gray fog, by which many of the most terrifying inhabitants of Dementerria lurk.

## Entities

The best description for the beings of Dementerria, rather than wildlife, (wildlife being a term for living, breathing organisms, which Dementerria lacks), would be entities. These so called "entities" are incorporeal and untouchable. These phantoms haunt every inch of Dementerria, and take the place that living creatures would've occupied in any other Earth-like world.

One of the most blood chilling types of entity that inhabits the evergreen forests, would be the Alcerus. Alcerus are elephant sized, moose-like entities. They are completely black in appearance, and have extremely long legs, which taper into points at their tips. They can stand on these tips with ease, despite their large size due to their incorporeal form. If they wish, they can also float several feet above the ground, allowing them to survey their surroundings. As with most Dementerrian entities, Alcerus are extremely dangerous- though they are far more aggressive than the other inhabitants of Dementerria, and are a threat to even the worst of the other types of entity. As with all entities, Alcerus are prone to head and neck twitches, which adds to their haunting appearance. The reason for this is unknown. Entities, though non-living, make a range of wailing and howling noises, which can be heard throughout the forests and other habitats of Dementerria.