Crimson Coast

The Crimson Coast is a strip of land surrounded by water and danger in all cardinal directions. By the West, it borders the Ocean of Impassable Waters; by the East, it borders Lake Bhloom and the Whirl of Valour; its Northern border is shared with the Fae Forest and its Southern border with The South's Wall.

There is little more we can say about the location's geography, other than what we can see from the other side: Its Monasterium seems to be on Crimson Island, the source of the Minibiome, it seemeth the contamination has throughout the ocean floor under the western side of the continent of Mystralis, which begs the question, can the other minibiomes spread under the ocean aswell? And what does that mean for the landmasses that should exist outside of Mystralis' borders?

Other geographical quirks that can be noticed are that the biome is categorized as a Dune, where dead trees "grow", hills get ever higher from the sandstorms that sometimes disturb the climate, and disturbing rock formations which resemble disturbing things, like faces full of sorrow and torture, screaming skulls screeching madness, and even rock formations that look like ancient remains of massive, impossible beasts. And that's just from what we can see from the biome's borders.

Top researches are doing everything they can to send safe Expeditions to the grounds of the Crimson Coast, so that they can fully investigate the nature of its corruption and find a way to get to the Crimson Island, and stop the spread of the Monasterium once and for all. The problem is, will they keep funding Crimson Expedition research after the construction of the Wall? Or will the Minibiome be ignored until it consumes everything around it including the other landmasses of the planet?

Should we let this happen?

The few organisms that inhabit this lifeless piece of sand seem to feed on each other's remaining flesh to keep living on suffering from the immortal pain of the Crimson Curse. But the substance of their food must be extremely low, is like trying to rip the little bits of meat from an old, decayed bone, there is nothing there, at most, very little to feed on. How do these soulless creatures manage to keep on existing without the substance they need to sustain themselves? Many theories arise from this very question:

• Secret incursions to neighboring minibiomes to feed on the poor and lost souls.
• Self-sustaining bodies thanks to the torturous Crimson Curse
• A source of substance we aren't even considering...

Whatever it is, this place's ecosystem is not made for the living, not even for the unliving, is just a wasteland, where nothing but sand can thrive, or is there something that we are missing?

The sandstorms here are the void of life. How are they even possible? Sand tornadoes that ravage anything on their way? Almost sentient, chasing life like they were programmed for it. Even beyond the veil, outside of the biome's border, you can see the Sandnadoes making hopeless creatures fly, and even throw them down unto other minibiomes for them to just instantly die, as life that has nurtured here for that long, are immediately killed by the change in climate and landscape, is like they depend on it, like a fish out of water, Spawns... Skulks... Krolls... they cannot live outside the coast, as if the Crimson Coast was holding them hostage, hopeless, with no prospect of the life they once had, expressing their feelings through visually inured pain, grief, and sorrow. They have lost the ability to talk, not the ability to express, a fact that make matters even more coalescing. What is actually going on here? Why is the climate itself against the inhabitants of the minibiome? What is even the purpose of the imperator by creating this much destruction? Is there something else or is this just a force of nature, punishing life for its many sins, with an endless prison with no guards other than the environment?

As a Minibiome devoid of life and of every substance that makes it, Flora & Fauna is not really a concept here worth analyzing, but there were sightings of soulless husks or bodyless souls that roam this massive landscape, said to be of the people that lived there before, or that were thrown away for punishments, these are called Crimson Spawns and Crimson Skulks respectively.

However, there is something else... those who survive contact with the Minibiome's corruption for mere milliseconds get so deteriorated, that they become something the common folk call "Krolls", decaying living creatures whose soul has been scarred so badly that no matter how much they regenerate, they still effectively look like undead red corpses constantly bleeding. They are not their former selves anymore... Only those with such mastery over body and mind can live on, forever cursed by the touch of this land.

Actually, the curse is an interesting concept to analyze. The Crimson Curse. Living beings that have touched the soil of the Crimson Coast for just a couple of seconds, seem to immediately inherit this curse, not affecting their mind, not touching their soul, but their Life Force, the very positive energy that makes life an optimistic prospect, not the void of energy everyone this age seems to think it is.

The Curse attacks the weak and breaks their mind without even touching it, its incredible how simple a curse can be, and how deadly it can become. It sucks happiness, along with flesh, it disintegrates joy, along with pain, making its victims feel... absolutely nothing. Their nerves could be harshly pulled like strings from a broken plush, and they will feel none of it, other than the endless hunger the curse has compelled them with. Tis truly a torturous fate that we wish befall upon no one... except for the Monarchy's harshest criminals, defying authority deserves a fate worse than death.

The only salvageable resource from this land seems to be the accursed wood of the dead trees, also known as Shadewood. In consequence of plants being full of life too, the Crimson Curse seems to be afflict them all the same. The Crimson Expeditions have managed to get this bark out of native territory for analysis, their lives lost in the process, it is all worth it, after all, their dead skeletons are send to the closes Aethra Fabrik to work in the mass production pipeline in service of the one above all.

From what we could gather about this accursed land, everything we know about the Crimson Coast, it was thanks to these trees, who shared their fruit of life for our perilous research. Now this resource is so valuable it is exchanged for the highest relics amongs the southerners, since weapons made from its substance, seem capable of being toxic to the flesh of the Monarchy's enemies.
Some reports even pointed out the sightings of Red Crystals over the Coast's territory, crystals that, on touch, absorb the blood of whomever collided with them, infusing themselves with their hemopower, and soon thereafter killing of the one who touched them, as if corroding their blood with an insatiable virus that leaves no survivors behind. No one has survived this blood transfusion as of yet, and we are still left to wonder, what power could these crystals bring to the Monarchy's lines?

And... are they... organic? What? What is this, what I'm I readi~

The Imperator of the Crimson Coast has not been seen, its Monasterium barely visible from the Finem Mundus port, there is nothing to be done about it. Multiple boats sent by the Crimson Expeditions have tried to sail towards Crimson Island to try and get any information, or any lucky hit, on the person responsible for all this chaos and torture. But none could even reach the shore, as the Ocean of Impassable Waters is relentless, so since the year 39 PSM, all expeditions to Crimson Island has been forbidden, until the Monarchy's researches find a way to get through the Ocean without killing off entire batallions for mere passage.
What wonders could the island be hiding that we don't know about?