The Chasm
The Chasm is located in Healan Mountain and governed by horrific Eye Beasts known as Eye Lords. The slaves that live here live in fear of the ruling eye lord. The current ruler is Zahlax has eleven large eyes. Each ruler tends to usher strange new creatures to the chasm which the locals have to deal with. The populations of such creatures wax and wane over time. While these strange creatures generally serve the current Eye Lord, they often behave independently most of the time. With each tyrant subtly changing the ecosystem and populations of other eye beasts, locals are very cautious. Their culture tries to keep up skills and habits that protect against eye beasts that don't currently exist but used to.
Geography
The Chasm itself is incredibly deep with off shoots and layers of carved stone around it. The great stair connecting the most common layers in the rock. Upper Chasm has the markets for trading with outside entities and is the home of Zahlax. Mid Cavern has the vaults, the purpling mist that provides unnatural light, and connects with the domains of arcane entities and strange powers of the earth. Low Chasm is the sprawl, filled with strange creatures and warm humid air. Below the Low chasm are the pits and the weeping cracks. These cracks sing a disturbing song of wailing voices, winds and creaks.
Ecosystem
The ecosystem is sustained mostly by strange magical energies and the connection to several other planes of existence which dump organic materials that are used by the inhabitants for survival. Most prominent are the gardens of the mid chasm which is permeated with an eerie light that provides enough light for plants to grow.
Current Eye beasts include: Observer Eyes, Moth Eyes, Death Eyes, Slime Eyes, Spider Eyes, and Centipede Eyes. These creatures look somewhat similar to other more normal creatures except that they have extra eyes where they should not. They feed less that other creatures of their size would, so appear to receive energy from the strange magics in the Chasm itself.
Argazat the previous Eye Lord desired to contain the The Plague of Silmora, and aggressively culled his servants, slaves, and any population within the Chasm. As such the remaining population is skittish of anything unusual, quarentining everything as soon as possible.
Current Eye beasts include: Observer Eyes, Moth Eyes, Death Eyes, Slime Eyes, Spider Eyes, and Centipede Eyes. These creatures look somewhat similar to other more normal creatures except that they have extra eyes where they should not. They feed less that other creatures of their size would, so appear to receive energy from the strange magics in the Chasm itself.
Argazat the previous Eye Lord desired to contain the The Plague of Silmora, and aggressively culled his servants, slaves, and any population within the Chasm. As such the remaining population is skittish of anything unusual, quarentining everything as soon as possible.
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