🌑 The Shattered Dominion

🌑 The Shattered Dominion The Age of Ash Long ago, the world of Erethon was vibrant, ruled by kingdoms bound by fragile peace. That ended when the Moon of Iron split open the heavens. A rain of burning fragments scarred the earth, unleashing ancient entities long buried beneath the stars. The event, remembered as the Ashfall, ended nearly all civilization and replaced it with dust, famine, and endless night storms. The sun still rises, but veiled by choking gray clouds. The Land The Black Plains – Endless cracked earth, where glassy scars from the moon’s fall glow faintly at night. Monsters breed in the fractures, creatures half-flesh, half-metal. The Bleak Mire – A swamp of drowned villages, poisoned waters, and fungal forests that whisper with the voices of the drowned. The Hollow Peaks – Mountains eaten from within by tunnels that shift and breathe, said to be the ribs of something colossal buried beneath the range. The Last Sea – An ocean now thick and oily. Ships that sail it often vanish, returning years later crewed only by pale husks who whisper prophecy. The Factions 1. The Pale Throne – An empire of necromancers who use the corpses of their own people as soldiers. The living are taxed in blood; the dead serve forever. 2. The Ashborn – Fanatical survivors who believe the Moon’s fragments are divine, binding shards into their flesh to become something more—or less—than human. 3. The Verdant Maw – Druids corrupted by the Mire, worshipping hunger itself. They feed both flesh and land to their swamp-gods. 4. The Hollow Order – Wandering knights who hollow themselves—removing eyes, tongues, even hearts—to resist the whispers of the world. Their sanity is uncertain. The Faiths The Broken Flame – Worship of fire as the last pure light. Its clerics burn themselves alive as offerings to keep the flame “unbroken.” The Maw Eternal – The cult of