The Dark realm
A world devoid of life and anything that can sustain it, the dark realm is a frozen and dark place where only lost spirits, twisted elementals, shadows and grim monsters wander. It is ruled over by the Dark Lady, the God of death, who will suffer no living dead to wander. A particular enemy of those who seek to unnaturally extend their lives and cheat death, the Dark Lady can reach into the ethereal realm to claim the dead and usher them on to their chosen afterlife. Only the truly damned souls are doomed to wander the Dark Realm. It is an unchanging realm, a place of stasis, and mortals do not age, though exceptionally few will trade a long life in this bleak world.
Another special aspect of the Dark realm is that the armies of the Infernal and the Radiant sometimes clash here, such locations within the Dark realm are pockmarked and torn from the mad clashes of powers beyond mortal grasp.
“The Dark Realm will chill you to the bone and steal your soul as you walk in the land of no moons and no dawn.” – Arturi Hespetus, Archmage and former adventurer.The castle of souls On the summit of a jagged mountain the Dark Lady’s castle stands dark and foreboding, with an eternal blizzard hiding its foundations. In the grand hall an untold hundreds of thousands of candles burn slowly away, giving off the barest of heat. Each candle marks the life of a sentient creature with a mortal soul. Whenever a creature nears the end of its life, an aspect of the Dark Lady brings with it the candle and travels to wait for its life to end in the ethereal realm.
Geography
The landscape is distinguished by dunes of bone sand, torn rock, jagged mountains, frozen seas and a bone freezing stillness. There is no sun to warm, only dark moons, and not a clouds to see. Only a dark sky from horizon to horizon, speckled with stars. Stars that lend only light to see and they bring this cold world no warmth. Unprotected visitors will freeze to death and suffer within minutes. Those that can sustain their warmth and feed themselves will have to contend with the sparse but deadly denizens of this dreadful plane. The land verily strips the will to live from the weak of will, and travelers have been known to simply sit down and wait for death to come.
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