World of Sorcery

The **World of Sorcery** is an arid world controlled by the Holy Psdonia Empire. The planet has become corrupted by the energies of the Warp.

## Geography

A desolate, windswept rock of barren wasteland, arid plains and searing desert that stretches across all four corners of the world. The few oases that exist, scattered throughout the harsh landscape, are the abodes of foul monsters, and those that are not are lined with fleshy trees that jealously guard their precious water sources.

The surface though incapable of sustaining natural life, the Warp's spawn and children just at home here. Hideous beings and foul things are able to cling to a miserable existence in the hostile environment.

Mutants, the horrifically deformed descendants of those first survivors of a crew stranded here who over generations have become tainted by the Warp's power and now roam the wastes in large nomadic clans and roving tribal groups.

## Notable Locations

### Forest of Tendrils

A forest made up of countless fleshy tendrils that sprout from the parched soil, the tendrils themselves are somewhat sentient, even some with faces that groan and are hungry, anything that gets ensnared is devoured. In turn, those consumed become part of the forest.

### The Dumping Pit

A tangle of tunnels and caverns, it is into this nightmarish labyrinth that the sorcerers cast those of their experiments they deem failures into. Those that do survive their fall, gradually succumbed to their mutations, transforming into even more madding forms, squirming, crawling and flopping after each other to feed.

### Valley of the Cursed Ones

This strange valley was once home to a hidden sect of Warp Peras from the Thirsting Warp cult that had landed on the planet and settled in the valley, deeming it their long promised holy land. An eerie place, the hills were scattered with stone huts where the cult would take shelter in and crude altars where sacrifices were made.

The Pera cultists at one point, attempted a grand ritual of sorts with the intent to harness the Warp and elevate themselves into a higher state of existence. However their plan backfired, the cult was overwhelmed by such raw power, and instead were transformed. Their bodies became swollen and twisted, madness consumed them leaving them aggressive, uncontrollable, unstable, and ultimately sterile. Ever since then, the malformed remnants of the cultists still haunt their valley, clinging to the distant memory of who they were once before.

### Towers of Woe

A series of defensive structures. Though each is different in form and precise function, these constructs are said to peer into minds and drawn out the weaknesses of any enemy who approaches, exploiting them with illusions, spells and other dark enchantments.

### The Living Mountain

An immense predatory living mountain, which in fact is actually a great creature that had grown so larger that is has become trapped by its own sheer weight and size. The mountain still hungers for food and lures prey into its labyrinthine guts, where acidic juices dissolve flesh, bones are crushed and the rocks split open in yawning cracks to devour the fallen bodies.

### Warpfyre Maze

The creation of a particularly insane sorcerer who constructed this maze like structure of glass engraved with countless formulas and spells in an attempt to channel the Warp. It worked and tore asunder the veil, but it had the unintentional side effect of trapping the creatures drawn across within the maze's many twists and turns.

### The Great Tower

Towering over this tainted landscape, is a massive tower which houses a small cabal of sorcerers wielding Warp-derived powers. These men are utterly corrupt, viewing themselves as the masters of all they survey. The mutant hordes are little more then pawns and playthings for them, using them for test subjects in their dark experiments.

## Flora and Fauna

Though anathema to most, the planet is rife with creatures transformed, made and given life by the power of the Warp. Other strange beings and fell beasts also dwell here, some being directly from the Ps Reality. One of the most common lifeform on the planet, the Warp Blobs come in many different sizes, while the smaller versions pose little danger, some specimens can grow to insane proportions and can consume even the largest of prey. Warp Spectors, Okies, Nymoxs, Kazalors and even the occasional Khasmasu can be found flying the skies.

What few plants still remain have become mutated as well, many even exhibit some animal attributes and are predatory in nature.

### World of Sorcery Fauna

* **Giant Spiked Warp Beast**: A foul four-legged monstrosity with countless bony protrusions that sprout from its hide and a maw of sabre like teeth that interlock.
* **Warp Behemoth**: Rare gargantuan titans of flailing tentacles and grinding teeth. The largest of them are tall as mountains.
* **Wyrdlurk**: Horrid looking creatures, mutated beyond all recognition and so infused with Warp energy that it can release this pent-up power as discharges of lighting.
* **Warp Vampyre**: Vampire-like warp mutant, vaguely humanoid in shape but with a mouth full of sharp fangs that were used to puncture the skin of their victims and drink their blood.
* **Gutloth**: Slug like abominations driven solely by the desire to consume and reproduce.
* **Harmda**: Mammalian and reptilian hybrids created originally as an experiment, considered failures by their creator, they were left to themselves and now can breed true.
* **Warpzoid**: Masses of corporeal Warp energy that gain a level of awareness and are mindlessly aggressive.
* **Lurkrat**: Quadruped creatures that resemble large hairless rats and are believed to be a mutant breed of pack-based species of burrowing rodents.
* **Sandwyrm**: A large snake like predator with three eyes and a tail that consists of a cluster of barbed tentacles, that lays in wait for passing prey in the sand.
* **Warp Chimera**: Fearsome beasts, so twisted by the Warp, that no two ever look extaclly the same.
* **Flesh Scrapper**: Small scavenging insects that will eat corpses of any variety including even those of their own species.
* **Wasphein**: Flying carnivorous creatures resembling giant vicious killer hornets mutated by the Warp that built large elaborate nests.
* **Warp Floater**: Utterly alien jellyfish-like entities that float in the air, propelling themselves with clouds of Warp-saturated gas.

### World of Sorcery Flora

* **Warp Weed**: A type of stunted weed that sparsely grows on the rocky surface of the planet.
* **Tendrilwyrm**: Strange, part plant and part animal, tentacle-like species.
* **Warp Cap**: A type of fungus that feeds on the Warp energy.