Brume

A dense fog covering most of the world's seas, the Brume obscures visibility, degrades the mind, and after prolonged exposure can cause debilitating ailments such as bad humours, mist love, springlight fever, brume madness, derangement, and infantilism. Brume can be burnt away with fire, but it is of course never gone for long. Brume is though to be thicker at night, but since its chiefest property is to obscure vision, this has always been difficult to gauge. For obvious reasons, it has been the greatest impediment to sea travel, explaining why our greatest civilizations have always lain upon rivers with a healthy distance from the coast, such as Tsen Ikha, Zizakhun, Laizhou, and (according to legend) ancient Craed Beleth.
Myth and rumor have long sought to explain Brume's origins, calling it the aethir of the gods, the breath of devils below the water, the souls of the dead. Greater minds have long held that it is simply a peculiar property of seawater, as those foolish enough to drink it have long confirmed that seawater is fundamentally different from continental.
It must be mentioned that, while the Brume is chiefly found in the seas, it can be found on land. Eysland, the Isle of Scey, Essevoy, and Titonis are commonly cited, but few know that nearly all of the massive Milosian Peninsula is covered in Brume, particularly in the south. Somewhere on the Peninsula is a massive valley called the Sublime that is positively roiling with the substance. This unusual phenomenon is oft blamed for Milos' renowned primitivism. And of course, the Farther West of Olveiria is said to be similarly afflicted.
Brume can also be found in much smaller locations. It is sometimes found in thick forests; not nearly so often as legend and foolish gossips will have it, but often enough. This likely has led to the misapprehension that Brume breeds monsters or otherwise drives animals to madness. Of course, if this were true, then the seas would be a vipers' nest of all manner of horrors. Yes, we hear tell of krakens and leviathans, but even if we lend credence to every sailor's folly, these tales are not nearly enough to form a connection with the Brume itself. If any such connection exists, it is the derangement and irrationality that exposure to the Brume causes.

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Organic