Odunos
The Returned of Odunos despise the living, feeling sparks of pleasure when they destroy whatever the living value, be it property or people. Within their city, armed Returned gangs roam the streets, quarreling for no apparent reason. Beyond the city’s walls, undead raiders strike out, menacing the lands of Akros, Meletis, and Phoberos. These raids are led by the city’s de facto ruler, Tymaret the Murder King, a servant of Erebos tasked with returning Phenax to the Underworld. Knowing that Phenax could disguise himself as anyone, Tymaret slaughters all living souls, just to be thorough.
Those who would strike back against Odunos’s raiders must venture through mires corrupted by sucking bogs and necromantic horrors. Those who survive to reach the city find it heavily guarded, its towers bristling with sleepless guards and abominations of unliving flesh.
The Bothros
A bottomless chasm yawns at the north edge of Odunos. Nothing that has fallen into its depths has ever been recovered. After a successful raid, warriors from Odunos usually dispose of their spoils in the Bothros—caring nothing for their pillage. Occasionally this includes captives, forced into the pit during wordless executions.Crypts of the Lost
Beyond Odunos rises a cluster of tors honeycombed by countless tombs. Few know who was originally buried in this morbid labyrinth, but the Returned care nothing for the corpses and dust. Occasionally, Returned who’ve grown tired of their half-lives congregate here, waiting for a final death to claim them. Some tales claim that treasures lie amid the crypts, but others say that Phenax first emerged from the Underworld here, and his path could be retraced back into Erebos’s domain.Geography
Horrid bogs of black sludge and dying or dead flora haunt all those who venture near Odunos. The city is harsh and angular constructed of black and grey rock.
History
Black Oak of Odunos. Before Odunos became a necropolis, it was a thriving city akin to Akros or Meletis. When the city fell before Phenax’s assembled forces, some of the populace begged the god of lies to spare them the touch of Erebos’s dread lash. Never one to miss an opportunity to cheat Erebos, Phenax made a solemn promise to those asking for his mercy, assuring them that they wouldn’t be forced into the Underworld, on his honor. Soon afterward, the Returned that had invaded the city murdered these people to the last one—whereupon Phenax, true to his word, bound their bodies and souls to a great oak, making a terrifying amalgam of undeath to guard Odunos and haunt the living for eternity.
The Black Oak cannot be controlled by the Returned of Odunos, but should it be awaked by Erebos, Phenax, or a Returned Kakomanteis, the tree will rise up and attack anything around it until the last being in existence around it is dead, showing no loyalty or care for anyone or anything, or it falls, defeated.
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