The Bloodmist Crash Site

The Bloodmist Crash Site is a region on the Veritian Leaf situated between the First and Third minor vein, in the North Western corner of the leaf. It borders the Western Fey wilds and is a distance away from the more civilized valley region by the main vein. The largest town in the region is the town of Given. It is called the Bloodmist because in the year 1040 three red meteors it the region and infected it with a red radiant miasmas. Prior to that, the only notable thing about the region was the sizable and popular Pelorian Convent. There was also the ruins of an Veritian city built during the expansion called Oakfinder, but it has long been taken over by the advancing forests. Nowadays, the region is mostly three craters tinted red by a corruption.

Geography

Prior to the meteor strike, the region was mainly forests with sparse farmland. There was also a mountain called Mount Forestguard, which once was the market demarcating the border between the Fey Wilds and civilized lands. Oakfinder was a Veritian border city built close to that mountain to guard the region. After the disaster, the region was vastly changed. Mount Forestguard was one of the victims of the strike, crumbling by the impact. Two other large craters stretch out southward. The meteors carried blood of a deity which seeped into the continental leaf's veins, turning the region red. The lakes turned to boiling pits of blood, trees died let still grew, everything began to bleed.

Localized Phenomena

The Radiant Miasmas permeates the region. This corruption affects the locals with a madness and zealotry to pain. It is contained around the craters for now.

History

In the early histories of the Veritian Leaf, the Church of Veritas settled the region by founding the city of Oakfinder during the Expansion. Like many of the cities in that golden age, it prospered to the envy and fear of the fey neighbors they were meant to watch. Yet, the city was one of the many victims of the Sundering. Unlike those who became independent city states, Oakfinder went to ruin and the region was largely abandoned.
Later, a group of tieflings settled the region, cousins to the Szereban tieflings of Tumult's Gilburrow region. Let this group of tiefling chose the more isolated and secluded social approach. They founded the town of Given and stuck mostly to themselves. It was not until the Pelorian Revival did the region get more peopled, and even then not by much. The Pelorians built a convent in the region in the 8th century, and an influx of humans came with it with the promise of that church developing the region. The native tieflings of Given did not mind too much, as long as they did not step on any toes. They brought wealth and moderate prosperity to an impoverished region.
It went along as such for the next two centuries, going unnoticed by most of the world. Then the meteors struck and the world was forced to look. The corruption became a humanitarian and environmental crisis. The Church of Veritas, whose Second Mineosian Crusade was taking the region east of the Bloodmist could not neglect communicating this crisis back to the Council of Paracletes. While the crusaders were a military branch wrapped up with war in Tumult, another paraclete was sent to investigate. Lo, the paraclete of Neih, is in this region trying to figure out the cause of the calamity.
What caused it, though it is not much known except through theories from one Father Ambert is that during a resurrections of a lady named Gloranna, Neih and Pelor met. The embodiment of Neih does not like foreign gods, and struck the sun god back to his own plane of existence, this strike causing the god to bleed three drops of blood which fell back on the Veritian Leaf on the way out. This unwilling godblood is confused, its radiant energy corrupting the region.
Lo thinks he has contained it, but hopes to find people to dive into the region to cleanse it.

Alternative Name(s)

The Destruction, the Province of Oak

Type

Crater / Crater Lake / Caldera

Location under

The Veritian Leaf

Included Locations

• The Pelorian Convent

Contested By

• Church of Veritas
• The Pelorian Revival