The Sooty Bramble

Travelers who wander too close to the Sooty Bramble speak of a land where the ground grows its own nightmares. The brambles there writhe in long, coiling tendrils, each one the ashen echo of a “snake” firework—those small toys that smoke and glow and leave behind curling trails of charcoal. But here the trails never end. They keep winding outward, layering upon themselves, a forest of black spirals that creak like burnt bones when the plane shifts.
The Sooty Bramble lies beneath a sky of slow-turning ash, a twilight realm where the smoke never clears and the light never fully returns. Every inch of its blasted ground is choked with blackened bramble coils—strange, brittle things that resemble the serpentine trails of the old-world “snake” fireworks. They twist and curl as though grown from ember and soot rather than sap and earth, each branch a crusted spiral of dark ash. Some still faintly glow at their cores, stretching by imperceptible degrees, as if continuing to grow long after the spark that birthed them should have gone out.

Smoke drifts everywhere, yet it behaves as though unaware of wind or gravity. Wisps hover motionless in the air, pooling in layers like ghostly curtains. Dustings of soot hang suspended, forming shadowed silhouettes that shift only when stared at too long. And despite the gloom, despite the omnipresent haze, the air carries no acrid sting—rather, it smells faintly and persistently of warm pipe tobacco, as though some unseen halfling god dallies just out of sight, enjoying a quiet smoke while the plane murmurs and curls around itself.

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Traits of The Sooty Bramble

Gravity
Normal. Gravity is down and the same strength as the Prime Material plane.
Time
Normal. Time flows at the same rate here as it does on the Prime Material plane.
Size
Finite. The plane is 100 acres in surface area.
Morphism

Divinely Morphic
Demi-powers and greater can refashion this plane with effortless thought. To mortals, the plane works much like any alterable realm: normal actions and spells behave as expected. But for its powers, entire landscapes can be redrawn in an instant. Vast citadels, kingdoms, and realms can rise or vanish according to divine whim, making the plan an ideal homes for deities. Non-divine creatures will find it to be about as morphic as the Prime Material plane.
Elemental Traits
There are no preferred or restricted elemental traits.
Miasmic Traits
There are no preferred or restricted miasmic traits.
Planar Alignment
The plane is strongly neutral evil aligned.
Neutral evil characters: no penalty.
Good characters: –1 penalty on all saving throws after 24 hours on the plane.
Paladins must save vs. spell each day or suffer a 1-point temporary loss to Wis (returns 1 point/day after leaving the plane).

Magic Traits
The plane is (Strongly/Normally/Mildly/Not) attuned to BLANK magic. All BLANK magic receives the following bonus.

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