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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tarrasque Wrangler" data-source="post: 904785" data-attributes="member: 7473">(Borrowing a page from Scarred Lands)In ancient days, a minor deity of earth and stone was slain in a terrible battle here with a powerful extradimensional entity.  As his dying body fell across the land, everything was touched by the corruption of his wounds.  The simple folk of the north found their bodies warped by his blood, becoming hard, flinty and slow as their own blood slowed to a trickle (becoming something like earth genasi).  The lands of the interior were stained by his passing, and the fat-bodied, greasy yellow worms which had been harvested for food for generations mutated into sickly gold colored terrors which devoured metals and alloys as they once had devoured grass and leaves.  The god writhed over the placid sea, causing vicious reefs and sharp stone spikes to grow underwater, dooming ships that sailed too close to shore.  His body came to rest in the area now known as Dead Gods Road, burrowing deep into the soil and befouling the land around his grave.In time, dark druids sought out the god's burial site, building temples and loathsome altars to channel the dead gods corruption.  A group of fighting men from Oswestry to the north cleared through the temple complex some 20 years ago, slaughtering the vile druids they found there and interrupting a horrible rite whose purpose is still unknown.  However, tales still abound that nightmarish beasts and remnants of the cult still lair there.To the west, a wizard who mourned the loss of his family on the treacherous reefs of the Sea of Death built a great lighthouse to mark a safe passage to port.  Lit with four eternal magical flames, one for his wife and one for each of his children, he fashioned a lens of unbreakable crystal to focus a beam that could be seen for miles out to sea.  It's said his spectre still roams the tower, appearing whenever a ship arrives to search for his lost family.</blockquote>

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