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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daztur" data-source="post: 6022146" data-attributes="member: 55680">Live! Live! I've been distracted recently due to spending too much time reading: <a href="http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=158364" target="_blank">Alternate History Discussion Board</a> (needs membership to join) about a world in which Antarctica never freezes over and it is inhabited by a set of civilizations that develop in very disturbing ways (with lots of shout outs of Lovecraft and Bierce). For example, while reading it I ended up thinking, "well this group just has bizarre monasteries with huge amount of hallucinogens, rides giant armored ground sloths mounted with rocket batteries, views other ethnic groups as inferior and barely human and engages in Hannibal Lector-style serial killing for kicks, how surprisingly pleasant, especially compared to the Flayermen *shudders*"Way to <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />ed up and dark to fit to mine for ideas for the Shrouded Lands whole scale but it's so damn creative that I'll have to use some of its animals, geography and society.Here's one, I'll need some time to digest the rest:The MawHex 46.00The Maw is a great canyon that extends from the World's Edge deep into the Grey Mountains (how deep?). Here the tropical heat of the lands beyond the World's Edge meets the snow capped cold of the Grey Mountains, which results in great and unpredictable winds.Occasionally unwary travelers are yanked into the Maw by these winds, almost as if it hungered for human flesh. And indeed the Maw's howling winds often sound like the famished moans of a great beast. The dwarves of these mountains stay well away from the Maw, seldom venturing close enough to peer in, especially since an entire dwarven caravan was frozen solid by a sudden temperature drop after venturing too close to the edge of the Maw.However, some say that there are strange buildings to be seen at the bottom of the Maw fashioned out of great cyclopean blocks, with a wild river rumbling among them.Hooks:-How far NW does the Maw extend from the Edge of the World?-What's at the bottom of the Maw?-Is it just a coincidence that the winds that howl through the Maw sound much like hungry moans?</blockquote>

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