Lanew
The screams and panicked shouts that echoed through the streets were cut short one by one as invisible, acrid fumes gagged and choked them. They scattered, trying to escape the nightmare that spread through the city, but escape seemed futile. It was futile.
Everything the fire and smoke touched rotted and warped with disease; even the stone went unspared from the putrid decay. Corpses curled and charred where they stood or fell, hands outstretched towards the clean air outside of the city.
But nothing escaped the city. Nothing was spared.
The city's residents that were outside of Lanew, traveling the roads with their goods or in other towns visiting their families, fell dead where they stood. Bodies rotting and burning in an instant. Any goods that came from the city fell with it.
The city fell silent, the screams of people and animals lost in the winds and eventually into nothing.
It happened so quickly that the gods could not save them. The evil so foul that the goddess of death and her minions could not even approach to collect the lost souls. They were left to wander and roam the fallen city for eternity, and their wails of grief and confusion fell on deaf ears. Their suffering was forever, and no amount of pity could spare them from the pain.
Their pain would not be their burden to bear alone, not for long.
The poison that killed everything it touched is spreading, consuming everything in its path. But now, there are no foul smells, no black fire, nothing. It's an invisible death.
Two towns, one village, and a city have already been lost over the last two centuries. It spreads slowly, and no longer kills instantly. One can stand in the cursed lands for a few weeks before succumbing to it, but succumb you will. It is weakening, but not quickly enough to no longer pose any danger.
It's only a matter of time until the Lanew Decay reaches the Balferen River and expands its reach.
Demographics
Government
History
Maps
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Source of the Rot
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Lanew Before the Decay
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Lanew Ruins
RUINED SETTLEMENT
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