The Wastelands

The Wasteland both is and is not a separate realm. More accurately a state of decay rather than a place, the Wasteland is the spreading blight that is the result of the Locust King spreading the Hungry Empire across the land to consume everything in an attempt to meet the every increasing demands of the tribute.

The Foglands are engulfed by the Wastelands, but its strength is fading. Here and there, between cracked pavement and under fallen towers, life returns. The Glass City is nearly drowned in the blight of the Wasteland. Only the Frontier Lands survive, and even they show early signs of the spreading Wastelands. In Arcadia, only the immediate area around the Glass Tower and the First City bear the damage of the Wasteland. A promise of times yet to come and an implicit threat leveled against all free tribes. The Painted Labyrinth is free of the taint of the Wasteland as any permanent feature. Here the Wasteland appears as a blight that follows certain Greater Monsters as they prowl through the darkness.

A Lesson from the Weaver

One of the unpleasant truths that a Fictional God can utter without fear of reprisal is that civilization is doomed. I can do so, because all previous civilizations have died. The Museums of modernity are littered with the corpses of my fallen brethren, Gods and Goddesses, Demons and Devils, Spirits and Cultural Heroes and Tricksters who stories are now told as history and not culture. Gods die when their stories stop being told as essential truth (though not necessarily fact).

And I know so many dead gods. Anubis and Baal and Chernabog, Dionyses and Enki and Freya, Gilgamesh and Hathor and Isis, Jowangsin and on and on. A whole alphabet of dead or catatonic gods and goddesses. And Why? Because their civilizations died. And yours will too.

You will not save this civilization. And you need prepare for this fact. It may not end in your lifetime. But that means nothing.

The Bedlam Wastelands

Lesser Realm: The Bedlam Wasteland 

(The Source of the Wasteland as seen in other realms)

A series of Senile dying realms and planets (think Ravenloft) developing based around other stories.  Most Stories are forgotten, as they are are, their components are stripped from the Major Realms by the Wasteland and separated out into the Realms of Bedlam. When they die, the Bedlam devours what is left.

 

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