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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GlassEye" data-source="post: 5108807" data-attributes="member: 40413">Ubariya has undergone a fairly major revision within the past day.  I'm still in the process of ironing out the nitty-gritty details but there is only a little left to do.  Then the weapon.As for what the world looks like, I guess we should post the info here for HM.  I've recently come up with some new ideas for Ubariya.  Outside of this, I don't really care what the world looks like.THE MOUNTAINS OF REMEMBRANCEA place of broken mountains, tall and perilous but riddled with caverns, where those devoted to Ubariya can walk knowing that she is only a step away from them.An extensive range of mountains, the Mountains of Remembrance are very tall, bleak and bare monoliths of splintered, gray and black rock.  Chasms fracture the range and radiate outwards to the edges of the foothills that surround the range.  The deepness of the chasms coupled with the height of the mountains ensure that light only ever briefly reaches the bottom.  Cloud cover is thick, muting light and making the entire range gloomy and dismal.  The weather can change at a moment going from cool and dry to bitterly cold with sharp winds and icy rain.  The ice, however, does not usually last long and melts away quickly.  Life is rare, not usually much more than lichens staining the rock.  The evidence of other life is abundant: strands of web stretch across the chasms.Note:  This area is not off limits to the other deities.  However, Ubariya considers these mountains to be a trial necessary for those mortals seeking her to overcome.  Major interference in the landscape or travelers will not be regarded kindly.Ubariya is a dual-natured goddess.  As such, she has two vastly different homes.  Neither resides wholly on the material plane but the most likely way to enter either is through the Mountains of Remembrance.  There are no set gates; when Ubariya decides the journey has gone on long enough she will open the way either to the Cradle of Ubariya or the Black Chasm.  The transition is seamless and mortals are likely not aware that they are stepping into another realm except that the air is charged with an energy unique to a particular aspect of the goddess.THE CRADLE OF UBARIYAAt the heart of the Mountains of Remembrance is the Cradle of Ubariya: the home of Ubariya in her life/motherhood aspect.  It is surrounded by mountains and several mountains have been uprooted and float in the sky at the edge of and over the Cradle.  Webs stretch between the mountains, the rim of the Cradle, and Ubariya's palace forming exceedingly complex patterns (think Spirograph).  The spherical palace is constructed of web and is suspended by web from the mountains and the Cradle's edge.  The bed of the Cradle itself is a large crater filled with a dense jungle full of life.  Ubariya welcomes the sun here but it is most beautiful at night with the light of the Eighth Eye (the moon) shining down and the remembrances of souls passed glowing in their turn throughout the entirety of the Cradle.Note: Heliasillyel and The One and the Many are very welcome in the Cradle.  Ubariya prefers to meet the other gods in the Black Chasm or their home or a neutral place.THE BLACK CHASMThe Black Chasm is a chasm of infinite depth, darkness, and the despair that strikes just before death.  Its walls are shear stone, fractured and dangerous and strewn with wisps of broken web.  The only light within the chasm comes from the dim glowing remembrances of the dead which take the form of skulls of various creatures.  The center of the plane is Ubariya's palace: a structure formed from bones woven together with web.  Ubariya typically takes the form of an old crone or a monstrous spider while here.</blockquote>

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