The Kubrazjar Outback

## Kubrazjar Outback

"An enormous sandstone monolith erupted, huge swathes of it crumbling off and collapsing onto the land below."

The Outback is encircled in yellow.

### Location

Central Kubrazjar

The Kubrazjar Outback is an arid basin range created by Fe'ris during the age of creation. It is known for its hot climate and wide assortment of animal life.

* *"[A]n enormous sandstone monolith erupted, huge swathes of it crumbling off and collapsing onto the land below. Upon its flattened peak, a tropical rainforest grew, submerged in a perpetual mist that glowed like fire when the sun hit it. Around the red mesa, the land became cracked and arid, sprinkled with tough shrubs and stubby grasses. Tiny mammals with powerful hind legs dug their way up from between the gouges in the reddened land, their fur short to keep the dust out. Where there were watering holes, there were dense populations of sharp toothed aquatic lizards, giant tortoises, and even a few river hydras, their hides toughened by the intense sun. The trees that sprang up around the water were pungent, smelling like cinnamon and radiating a highly flammable haze. Catlike creatures with masked faces and thick, puffy white tails flocked to the leaves, eating them in large batches before passing out in the baking sun. Smaller variants of the stone birds grew from the sand, their feathers striped to blend in with the dusty desert. Hounds with wide, floppy ears and eight eyes appeared, eager to hunt the small mammals and slow tortoises. A great many venomous snakes slithered out from around the claws of the enormous hydras, stealing away into the many nooks and crannies of the arid and semi-arid desert.*"

## Description

The Outback is extremely arid and hot. It is semiarid around the rainforest and forest regions, but gradually grows more and more dry the closer to the sandstone rock formation one gets. There are several oases throughout the Outback, and a wide assortment of cinnamon eucalyptus trees, hardy shrubs, and short grasses populate the hard-packed red sand.

At the center of the Outback is a colossal sandstone monolith, as large as a mountain and bearing extremely steep walls. It reaches a thousand feet above the ground, and atop it is a thick, misty rainforest, untouched by the rest of the world.

## The Shifting Font

The Shifting Font is a holy site, consecrated by the god Fe'ris.

* *"He touched his nose to the red rock, and a crack splintered the stone, spewing forth clean, fresh water. A shard of rock stabbed at his nose, sending droplets of blood into it, staining the stream a deep crimson. He narrowed his violet eyes at it, and the spring bubbled, the dusty ground below swirling and shimmering at its liquid touch. One of the white, cat-sized creatures approached, four small berries clutched in its paws. Wide eyed, it plunged its paws into the stained water, and when it removed them, a different, larger fruit emerged, the same size as the berries combined. Happy now, the creature stuffed the fruit in its cheeks and scampered off, chittering cheerfully to itself."*

Pleased, Fe’ris left the Shifting Font, eager for the day sapients might find it and unlock its powers.*"*
☀Whoever visits the Shifting Font must speak aloud what they want it to do. Depending on this, the fountain can combine objects, or exhaust them both to create something equal to the sum of their values. Ex. Combining two knives to make a short-sword, or four grapes to make a peach. The Font is more likely to produce misshapen objects when larger objects are fed to it.

☀Anyone within a fifty mile radius will feel compelled to visit the Shifting Font and contribute something to its waters. The desire grows increasingly strong the closer someone gets to it, to the point where anyone directly next to the fountain is incapable of resisting the urge to shed blood and make something new. The urge disappears as soon as something is created, and will remain dissipated for 48 hours, before it begins to grow again, in direct relation to proximity to the font.

☀The Shifting Font is only activated when it comes in contact with blood. Without blood, it resembles a normal spring of water. It also does not work on living creatures, and cannot be used to create objects that do not already exist.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5097157
2. ↑ https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5097157