The Graven Plain
"Where Dead Gods Sleep"
- Hazards
- 2
- Settlements
- 1
- Landmarks
- 0
From a distance, the Graven Plain looks idyllic — an ocean of yellow grass. Up close, you realize the hills are burial mounds. The ground is paved with bones — rib cages the size of houses, femurs thick as oaks. Whatever died here was colossal.
No single faction holds the Plain. The Circle of Ash maintains their hidden valley sanctuary at Palomera. The Redeemers run patrols through the open grassland, burning anything that crawls out of the mounds. The Plain itself does most of the killing.
Threats & Features
| Feature | Effect |
|---|---|
| Marrow Downs | Central hills. Digging releases “Grave Gas” — a hallucinogen that makes the user believe they are an ancient giant. GRIT (TN 13) or 1d6 hours of delusion. |
| Stone Circles | Pre-human ritual sites. Psionic Talents cast inside are +1 Rank effect — but Backlash is doubled. |
| Disappearances | Children who roll down hills sometimes vanish; locals report hearing them giggling underground for days. |
Settlements
Palomera is the hidden Circle sanctuary, cloaked in psionic illusions in a valley that looks like a deadly rockslide from outside. It serves the Hollowborn fleeing Redeemer persecution.
Landmarks
No landmarks from the planned set are in this region. Source names two: Uphill River (a stream that flows uphill against gravity, the Drowned wading slowly upstream against the current) and Bell-in-the-Black (a 50-foot pillar of black obsidian that tolls like a church bell during storms, the sound speaking Suggestions into hearers’ minds). Neither has a landmark file yet.