The Midland Plains

An impossibly vast, barren, and deadly stretch of land, the Midland Plains sit between the continents of Eletheros, Khaddal, and Yojin, separating the former two in the west from the latter in the east in conjunction with the Emmar mountain range. A massive expanse of snaking rivers, sporadic hills, and rolling flatlands, the very center of the Plains is host to the largest and oldest known instance of The Scourge in the world, and the devastation and transformation alike which this solitary and everlasting bundle of writhing magical energies is responsible for has left the area ultimately inhospitable.
The vast majority of the Plains' themselves are unaffected by the scourge as its center — indeed, from across the rivers, walls, and barricades which the civilizations on its borders maintain, the landscape itself is entirely indistinguishable from that which their cities are built upon, and the health of its appearance would change only imperceptably until the end of the weeks-long trip necessary to reach its center. The plethora of native tribes and nomadic communities of human and beastkin alike which subside and thrive on the outskirts of civilization and the boundless Plains are proof enough of the region's ability to sustain life, even if the occasional skirmishes spotted with roving brigands, cannibals, and slavers demonstrate equally as well why it isn't typically a comfortable living. The dangers of the Plains come less from the environment itself than from the variety of wildlife it supports.
Believed to have twisted and turned for well over five thousand years, the scourge at the Plains' center has mutated life both old and new into once-unrecognizeable shapes. Alongside the demikith species of minotaurs and centaurs, a host of creatures which now proliferate across the globe such as the manticore, chimera, griffin, and rokh are thought to have originated in the Plains at some point in histories long past, and even now stamp and soar above its landscapes in greater numbers than ever seen elsewhere.
A thousand nameless creatures further supplement this foreign ecosystem as one delves deeper into the plains — monsters of a lineage that was birthed into the world a thousand or more years prior, but never proliferated past the Plains themselves. Tales from nomads, explorers, and hunters who ventured deep enough into the Plains to catch sight of these strange habitats paint pictures of eight-legged beasts taller than trees which bound across the flatlands, worm-like creatures that burrow beneath them, and a dozen hundred more.
The only proper account of the Plains' center which exists dates over two thousand years in age, and one can only guess at how much further the landscape has been twisted in the generations upon generations which have passed since. By the occasional swathe of freshly-shaped scourgespawn which, over time, often manage to stumble near enough the outskirts to devour smaller villages or crash upon the walls of larger cities, most scholars imagine the environment is as alien and grotesque as any other which surrounds the scoured heath of a Scourge source.

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