Dread Moor

There is no piece of the geography of Darisia more frightening than these ragged highlands. A mixture of jagged hills, cliffs, and salt plains, the Dread Moor is a lifeless region. The husks of large trees may still be seen in the moor, but all other signs of life have vanished. There are no birds or grass, even insects are absent.

The Dread Moor appeared less than a hundred years ago and has expanded quickly since then. It's rate of expansion has slowed somewhat, but not enough to provide reassurance to the nations that border it, Estovia and Thule. Thule has reacted by building a massive wall that runs the length of the moor, and Estovia has built many fortresses along the border. All of these fortifications are present to stave off the intrusions of the moor's only inhabitants -- undead.

Previously the existence of dead that still walked the land with a hatred for the living was thought to be the stuff of legend and monstrosity, the effect of a lone mad necromancer or other powerful evil. The Dread Moor has proven this wrong, showing that the undead are numberless.

Why the moor appeared, why it expands, and where the undead come from are all mysteries that no one knows the answer to, although both of the nations that border the moor are constantly seeking those answers. Unless its expansion can somehow be stopped the Dread Moor will swallow all the lands around it, perhaps even all of Darisia and the East eventually.

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