Other Places and Fabled Lands

## Vlodmare

The continent of **Vlodmare** is known for being tainted by strange and unknown forces, which have left the continent engulfed in a constant, gloomy darkness.

Vlodmare's soil is hardy, rocky and muddy, causing most thorned plant life have an "unnatural" black, red or white coloring, helping to make the landscape resemble "a colorless black mass". An evil landscape of twisted mountains, covered in long creepy finger-like dark green fir trees, and inhabited by grotesque monsters. Due the constant feeling of dread, the ascomanni explorer and Waringjar Xhuuyaa Tiidaldaang remarked upon his exploration of the land that Voldmare is "A Land so evil that even the light will dare not shine upon it."

It is said the moment you lay your eyes on the crooked mountains and the twisted forests of these lands, you feel the presence of a great evil. Bat-birds and large worms with human faces are among the strange fauna that live in the dense blackend woods. Twisted beings called **Doppeltgängers** or **Shatten** are the only known humanoid inhabitants, however they are actively hostile as they coerce their victims to commit suicide and allowing them to assume an appearance similar to its victim, however often times resulting in a distorted appearance like missing facial features or unusual long limbs, due to the primitive magical capabilities of the Shatten. Every attempt settle Vlodmare has ended in horror. There are old stories spread by ascomanni exploreres of older nations devoured by the Shatten, such as Men-lizard cave-dwellers thought to be related to the ancient lizard men of the Morrowlands.

The lands of Vlodmare were first discovered by sailors from Ascomannia, who went mad afterwards. Rumors of strange and eerie relics persit among the lips of would-be explorers, these relics often turn up inexplicably in local markets or on the coast of the known world. Among the artifacts speculated to be from Vlodmare are petroglyphs with strange runes or horrifiyng faces engraved on them, black greasy stone statuettes of winged lions with the heads of men & female figures with large twisted faces and enormous bellies, as well as various types of pearls and carved stones of unnatrual coloration.

## Malantyr

At the ends of the Morrowlands lie the **Ends of the World**, a series of freezing deserts and beyond that lies the fabled legend of Malantyr. A nation build around a white marble temple mount, **Danusia**.

An ancient nation even when ancient nations where ancient. Malantyr was home to the **Empire of Heaven's True Will** ruled by the **Perfection-in-Flesh** and his direct blood lineage. The Empire was surrounded by the freezing dunes known as the Ends of the World, where unspeakable monstrosities had made their home. **Danusia** the marble imperial capital was also the center of their religion, the Primordial Energies. The Malantyri thought of the world as being composed of three energies in constant flux and competition with each other, fire and ice as the polar extremes and water as the balancing middle ground.

Danusia was lost to the expanding dunes after the sudden vanishment of the **Ater Emperor** after his thousand year reign of terror, where dark arts and forbidden profanities where as common as winter snow.
Malantyr was protected by **Soulice Walls**, erected by the Ater Emperor to safeguard the nation from monstrosites of the outside world, by drawing on their lifeforce. It is said that the thousands of souls forever trapped in its ice cold walls are still around today, forever dying but never be dead.

Although prized white marble relics do still turn up time and time again in the bazaars of the Morrowlands, the peoples of the Morrowlands never explored much of the lands beyond the Ends of the World. A legend however states that **Melekh Qarmat al-Nasdira** acquired his **Sword of Destiny** during a wandering of the deserts. Maybe Malantyr is not truly lost...?