The
Ruinous Scar
Precis: A destroyed kingdom home
to vast wastelands and labyrinthine ruins.
Conspectus: Former holy land
decimated by a forgotten magical apocalypse; dungeons, caverns, and
endless mazes of tunnel compounds beneath the earth; chaos mutants
and mutagenic magical “radiation,” accursed artifacts and the
remnants of past civilizations; temples to elder elemental gods; the
Tomb of Seven Swords, scavenging carrion crawlers, giant acid
roaches, otyugh, and umber hulks, lost grimoires and scrolls of
forbidden knowledge; architectural magic, portals to other worlds,
and shrines to Junox (the Ever-Flowing God) and Skaylex (Goddess of
Fungi)
Taste, Sound, Image: Dust and
sour water, The Black Heart Procession's “Wasteland,”
Simon Marsden's photographs of Whitby Abbey.
oh man how i do love the black heart procession
ReplyDeleteMe too, essential stuff.
DeleteGreat, as always.
ReplyDeleteWith "architectural magic", do you mean architecture build by magic, or does the architecture have magical power by itself?
Thanks!
DeleteBy architectural magic I mean unwholesome angles, house designed to channel arcane power, non-euclidean labyrinths, etc.