Qornoom

Geography

It looks as if you took a perfectly flat expanse - let us picture an open field somewhere in the netherlands, and covered that whole thing in molten lead and let that shit solidify until it's looking like a multi-faceted lava flow. Here there are no mountains, no hills, just flat surfaces with grooves and shallow curving terraced inclinations. There is no grass, just textured metal of a dubious concentration, and there is thick cloud cover above - despite it does not rain, and the closest thing to rain is the occasional descent of watery mists that make it damp here. Qornoomian landscapes are rather boring, there is a dark haze which encompasses the horizon at every side.
There is the occasional pond of effervescent green acid which is confused whether it should be a liquid or a solid, congealing and melting at a whim, solidity indicated by bubbles which cease to move and a reflective gloss on top, liquidity distinguished by the surface beginning to tremor and leap again and the acid going aboil. These ponds in the terraced lead are very shallow and are relied upon by some species as their digestive acid - there is not much salt here for the digestive systems of the local scavengers to make into hydrochloric acid.

Fauna & Flora

Most animals here are either predators or scavengers or parasites who are completely immune to lead poisoning. The ecology is based around what falls from the skies. There is no intelligent life whatsoever and most life is fierce and inimical, and there is lots of violent competition. Plenty of quick-moving pack animals with canine teeth and constitutions strong enough to handle rotten flesh, with postures squat enough to handle the high gravity, combined with small lungs because the air is dense. Everything about Qornoom's lifeforms are heavy.
There are mats of quivering bacteria that becomes petrified should the breeze be too cold, and metallic brambles which form razor-sharp bushes, which hide underground in burrows and pop out of them in response to pressure, so that it can suck the blood of whatever monstrosity marches over its turn. Nonchalant land-flounders and assorted bottom-feeders which cannot be peeled off by the jaws of fierce vulpine scavengers. Long-tongued blood-suckers, giant tripodal things which look like they might have been mosquitoes once. Amorphous shambling monstrosities which puke their acid upon carcasses so they can suck them up.

Natural Resources

Just hunting trophies, nothing more, nothing less. Also abundant lead but would you really put your life in jeopardy and that of dozens of assiduous labourers and miners and prospectors just for the sake of your gains? Sure, they're very heavy and would make for great weights but you could get it for cheaper on Rice Island.

Alternative Name(s)

Lowedge, Cornoo, Ledlo.

Type

Wasteland

Location under

Jhaeloë