Those that do weave dark stories of monsters working in concert as never before. Many adventurers have entered the Chaos Scar. Capping off the valley is the fortress of Hallowgaunt, home to the mysterious Brotherhood of the Scar, crowned by a perpetual storm of black clouds and crackling lightning. Strange features have been raised, or have simply appeared, within the Scar-circles of standing stones, bizarre towers, grotesque cottages, and other more otherworldly features. The deeper one travels into the valley, the deadlier the foes lurking in its caves and hollows. It is filled with evil and riddled with caves both natural and tunneled by generations of monstrous denizens.
The Chaos Scar itself is death to most who wander in. Some are inhabited by monsters others are simply empty. Towers that once ringed the valley have fallen to ruin as well. It still stands, partly in ruins, its gates open and unguarded. A long-forgotten ruler who fancied himself a king erected a wall across the valley’s mouth long ago. Some cities have tried to hem in the threat of the Chaos Scar, with little to no success. The weakest settle near the mouth of the valley and the plain beyond, while the strongest lair closer to the valley’s terminus and in the fortress that now encloses the valley’s upper wall. The Brotherhood built a keep around the meteor, and the other denizens of the Scar have carved out their own dominions within the valley’s many caves. The order seems to have reached some sort of understanding with the meteor, because while the conflicts between the monsters of the Chaos Scar continue, the Brotherhood is left to its own devices. Others think them servitors of Zehir, or possibly a demon prince. Some nearby cities and nation states believe them to be worshipers of Bane.
It calls itself the Brotherhood of the Scar. The weak were killed or pushed to the edges of the meteor’s influence, while the strong and cruel rose to the top of the pecking order.įollowing years of conflict, a group has emerged to rule the valley.
The meteor's dark sentience spurred competition among them so that they fought with one another. Over the centuries, creatures of evil spirit have been drawn to this beacon. As it carved its path through the earth, shards and fragments of the meteor tore away until only its heart remained, embedded in an escarpment at the far end of its new home. Over a mile long and several hundred feet deep, the Chaos Scar is a testament to the vast power of the meteor’s impact. Where once had stood a wild forest and swamp between a line of small hills was this new valley-the Chaos Scar. The meteor had carved its massive gash in a dark and wild place between points of civilization. The meteor crashed into the earth with deafening force, and red radiance lit the sky for a week. As the giant rock passed overhead, milk curdled, livestock fell over dead, and ill fortune befell all. The Chaos Scar is a long, wide valley carved long ago by the fall of a massive meteor. Patient beyond mortal comprehension, it began to sow the seeds of evil and reach out to those of a perverse and corruptible bent. There it crash-landed, embedding itself deep in the ground and carving a valley-sized furrow in its wake. After seeding countless wars on many worlds, it found a new world to ruin. Long ago, a dark power traveled through the space between worlds, intent on finding world upon which to wreak havoc.
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