"The Locus"

1. What do people call this unique place? "The Locus"
2. Who lives there? The locus is inhabited by a unique race of gliding sea elves, the Vol.
3. Why do they live there? Unique among elves and the last of their kind they were chosen to guard the area as their anatomy allowed them to easily navigate the terrain. But they're kind and will taxi you among the waterfalls... for a price. A dying race and ousted from their normal habitat they were given the ultimate duty to guard the plane from what lies beyond.
4. What conflicts does the terrain foster? Apart from being tremendously hard for our heroes to navigate, the land is a paradise. Unfortunately there are rumblings of something that lies beneath and the locals aren't willing to offer any advice as to what that may be...
5. Why might the PCs be drawn to this place? Once you've conquered everything upon the land the only thing left is to head out to sea to find the edges of the world. The world is spherical, naturally, but no trade routes head south. They say it's endless sea and that all who leave are lost forever, but there have been rumors of a paradise at the edge of the world if you choose to seek it out.
6. How do they get there? All currents lead you here eventually. The world doesn't end with a cliff; it flows through a hole. Our adventurer were thrown from their path by a monsoon caused by an earthquake. Lost and unsure what to do, they let down their sails and were guided here.
7. You do you. The world here exists on the inside of a sphere. There are no stars, and when you look up at night there is an ever-looming cloud obscuring your vision at all times. No one has risen high enough to discover the secret of their world though the scientists you've met have puzzled at the world's seemingly convex shape. The seas empty through a hole at the bottom of the sphere, where the Vol protect from whatever is beyond. Looking into the hole you see a penetrating blackness, not where the light can't but where it simply stops and everything else passes through. The Vol have been guarding this place for a thousand years and in all that time they have encountered nothing against which they should "defend" the world, but lately earthquakes have been occurring every few days or so and the entire cities on edge.
Beneath the hole lives That Which Holds the World, and she's growing weary and old and is soon ready to lay down her burden into the unknown and sleep, and it's up to our adventurers convince her to carry on, or at least find some suitable replacement. Looking out while speaking to the creature leads to a curious site, hundreds of these spheres held by hundreds of these creatures all around them... https://dungeonmasterblock.freeforums.net/thread/2371/dm-nastics-154-moving-mountains

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Desert