Maw of the Void

The world of Erratis is a scarred husk, a testament to a catastrophe that fractured the very foundations of reality. It has been five years since the First Abyss tore open the heart of the capital, and the survivors have learned a grim calculus: the deeper the abyss, the stranger and more terrible the creatures that emerge. You are part of a small, hardened group of scavengers and outcasts living in the settlement of Brindle, a town precariously perched on the rim of a minor abyss known as the "Weeping Crack." While the Church of Luminosity preaches penitence and the Garrison focuses on constructing massive defensive walls around the major cities, your group has discovered a disturbing new phenomenon. The abyss beneath Brindle has begun to pulse with a rhythmic, low-frequency hum, a vibration that is not geological but seems almost organic, and it is driving the local wildlife into a frenzy. More unsettling, a few of your group's members have started to experience shared, vivid nightmares of a vast, subterranean city made of black glass, a city that is not empty but is waiting.