Mewtasia

An extremely dangerous plane upon which the Avatar of the Goddess Hageovita was said to have died.

## History

In the spring of the year 3965 NE, a series of freak shimmering storms struck the plane of Mewtasia which were dismissed as once in a lifetime phenomenon, they were however a portent of what was to come. The following summer and autumn there seemed to be an explosion of life across the plane; farmers crops yielded bountiful harvests, fishers began pulling bumper hauls from the sea and hunters were able to find suitable game from almost anywhere in the forests and plains.

This age of bounty was not to last, in the spring of the year 3967 NE the plane was once again racked by the shimmering storms of two years prior. This time the devastation they left behind was severe.

The druids of the Mewtasia have responded to this environmental plight by establishing Henges upon the Leylines. These structures have managed to quell the more rampant effects within a couple of miles of them, but do nothing beyond that distance. These small refuges have become the new home for nearly all but the most hardy of the planes races.

Some settlements located near the borders of a Henge's effect have begun to report that a new wave of monsters are inbound. These new threats are born of the planes former insects, which have mutated (so they say) into titanic versions of themselves, with ants as big as oxen, nests of sodden mud and rock that scrape the sky and a rash of five foot wide holes appearing overnight in fields in which cattle have disappeared.

## Climate

Storms run rampant and and it’s is now always rough.

Storms and weather become unseasonable and unpredictable;

Sickness runs across the land. What were once simple illnesses easily cured, become much more dangerous. Healing magic becomes unpredictable.

## Flora and Fauna

Once safe forests are now havens for deformed and dangerous mutant game. Any hunter setting foot within their wooded bounds has to contend with what once were bears, foxes, wolves and even deer. Each of these species have increased in size, developed new defensive abilities and each individual possess at least one random mutation that makes hunting it a tough task.

The seas have become filled to the brim with dangerous and divergent evolutionary monstrosities. Ships that head out onto the waves are harassed (and sometimes sunk) by aggressive plated dolphins, flying sharks and grasping vine like seaweed. This has meant most sea facing settlements have had their fisheries stock all but collapse, with anything they do catch being larger, armored plated mutations that were once crabs, herring and lobster.

Coupled with this disaster of mutant fauna, the flora have also gone out of control. Trees now have grown to new unseen heights. Grass and vines rapidly spread choking out once well traveled trails and roads through the forests and plains. Algae blooms now choke all but the most rapidly flowing sources of water.

Settlements that were abandoned because of the events of 3965 NE have been consumed by vegetation and fallen into ruin in a matter of months, now ll that remains of them are heavily moss encrusted walls and dense clusters of aberrant crops.

### Mutations

In the beginning hunters and fishers see great returns but as life isn’t as controlled as it once was everything begins mutating drastically to protect itself from being killed by other rapidly mutating animals. A pack of wolves kill a bear in a territory dispute, they eat the bear’s corpse and suddenly begin getting WAY bigger than they should be and obv far more dangerous to boot. Animals begin taking on aspects of what living things they eat. A mutated horse suddenly turns carnivorous and mutates to meet it’s new dietary requirements.

Ships have to haul out at the end of every fishing day for scraping because their hulls now foul and become worm-ridden at a prodigious rate. But, a strange new archipelago emerges from dissipating fog banks; it's the ruined capitol of an ancient magic civilization long locked away from mortal eyes, its treasures now ripe for the plucking by any adventurers stalwart or foolhardy enough to dare the forbidding seas.

As for life, an increase in stillborn children.

This is when other deities might step in. Flashfires emerge on the seas burning down the algae carpets (and ships), undead rise hunting down the excess living creatures (also threatening those who have been there before)