The Deadlands

Thousands of years ago, the Gods of the Wheel who once ruled the world of Eramon and all its ancient empires bid their worshipers build a gigantic arcane gate in the far northeastern corner of the world.
Through the gate the Gods themselves departed, for reasons and destination unknown - and something went terribly awry. The The Godsgate Calamity rearranged continents, crumbled empires into ruin, boiled seas, and worst of all, it created the scarred and lifeless wastland known only as the Deadlands, and brought the blight of Undeath into the world...

For here, in the cold black desert where nothing grows and few things live, nothing that dies stays dead.