Orv
At the bottommost extent of the known layers of the Darklands lies mysterious, primordial Orv.
Created in times immemorial by something other than
the natural forces of tectonics and water, much of Orv
consists of the enigmatic vast chambers known as Vaults.
These strange and often fantastical cysts in Golarion’s mantle lie below 8,000 feet in depth, and their creation is ascribed to a race of mythical elder beings known only as the Keepers.
Who or what these elder beings might have been is anyone’s guess, as is what magic they must have wielded to create and still sustain the incredible Vaults of Orv.
These strange and often fantastical cysts in Golarion’s mantle lie below 8,000 feet in depth, and their creation is ascribed to a race of mythical elder beings known only as the Keepers.
Who or what these elder beings might have been is anyone’s guess, as is what magic they must have wielded to create and still sustain the incredible Vaults of Orv.
History
“The scholars tried to warn us.
From their parchment-filled chambers at the university, they told us stories about lizard-giants whose crystalline towers marked their cliffside territories.
Ancient Thassilon besieged these giants’ clans, but did the giants surrender to the waves, their reign finished? They did not.
The monstrosities instead embraced a dark power. They fed from it and followed
its siren song deep into the seas and through a passage to Orv. Here the clans dwell still, hunting and blasting their enemies’ minds with psychic might.
Our expedition, the scholars warned, would take us into a lizard-giant demesne. How we scoffed!
Surely we seasoned adventurers could avoid a few spear-throwing lizards, we thought.
We were wrong.
The giants knew of our intrusion the moment we arrived.
They dragged the others away in chains, and here I cower, hidden, waiting for a chance to sneak away.
I fear it will never come.”
—Excerpt from an adventurer’s journal recovered in Orv
Type
Underground / Subterranean
Location under
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