The Dust

The Dust

  A vast desert expanse with shifting sands, towering dunes, and deep canyons. It is a harsh and unforgiving environment, with scorching heat, sandstorms, and limited resources. Some scattered oases act as trade hubs and sources of water. The Dust comprises a vast majority of Dunia's main continents.  

Anchorpoint MEZs in The Dust

  The Malignant Haze   Nuclear fallout interacts with magical particulate in a very unpleasant way. It bonds to it, creating a radiation-dosed magical sickness in those that inhale it. There’s one such MEZ called the Malignant Haze in the Northern Expanse of The Dust. It was a nuclear testing site before the Cataclysm, and the residual fallout from the site created an Anchorpoint for that particular MEZ to latch onto.   With the Karithat-Aldawi’s mutagenic fallout affecting magical creatures of various types, inhalation of the Malignant Haze can lead to horrific mutations in sapient bodies. First blisters form on the skin, then the anatomy warps a bit, and over time it becomes some kind of cancerous-like extension of the flesh. Death soon follows, with the mind and spirit forever tormented thereafter.   The Motionless Forest   An Anchorpoint MEZ that occupies a large stretch of The Southern Expanse, the Motionless Forest is comprised almost entirely of petrified trees, burned and subsequently turned to stone by the Karithat-Aldawi. What was once a vibrant and rich ecosystem was reduced to an eerie, stone-gray environment where the only sparks of color seem to come from the wisps of chaos particulate wafting from the skeletal remains of the trees themselves. The Motionless Forest seems to swallow all sound. Those that encounter its anomalies might themselves become one with the forest, or might get away with some strange hand-like burns or imprints on their skin with new memories they themselves did not make.  

Features

  The Eastern Expanse   Host to the fearsome Dunewyrm, The Eastern Expanse is a massive desert encompassing over 1/3rd of Mudira-Karrah to the East of the . Underneath its dunes runs the largest section of The Deep, a tunnel network created by the mutated Dunewyrms.   The Drakaan were torn from another world and brought here to The Dust, where they have made it their home, hunting the mad dragons-turned-serpents aboard their landship fleets powered by lightning and wielding weapons far more advanced than any that were on the world beforehand.   Cresting over the dunes are mobile oil derricks, towering production facilities which extract, refine, and manufacture diesel. These giants of industry are owned and operated by dwarven clans who compete with the Aphorini.   The Southern Expanse   The Southern Expanse of The Dust is littered with ruins of old cities that were damaged or destroyed by The Cataclysm. It used to have a fairly significant trade hub near one of the Oases in its region, but at this point it is a ghost of its former self.   The Western Expanse   The Western Expanse of The Dust is dominated by the Dunewyrm and other mutated megafauna. Riches lie beneath its dunes as survivors eke out an existence in search of its treasures and relics left over.  

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Monsters

  The Dunewyrm | Kuthban-Tinin   A G-class monster that roams The Dust, the Kuthban-Tinin is the singular greatest threat to anyone moving through the wasteland. It requires multiple landships to take just one down, and several more to process it.  

Native Species