Deadlands

Located in the southern part of Varina and Mughamar, the deadlands are one of the places of New Meritta best avoided for safety’s sake. People who spend time in the deadlands undergo a dark transformation, turning into the dreaded corpsen, people so near to undead they are indistinguishable. The deadlands have been uninhabitable since before the rise of the empire, and the transformation seems to strike any who spend too long in that blighted place.

Still many choose to make their way to the deadlands. Largely ignored by the politics of the lands, the deadlands have a certain autonomy not found anywhere else in the empire. While it is technically imperial land split across two regions, the deadlands govern themselves and are as happily ignored as the regions are to ignore them. For the corpsen, the deadlands nourish them, satiating the hunger they feel on a constant basis otherwise. Even if it weren’t for that, they are shunned essentially everywhere else they go, so the corpsen tend to be pretty insular. Still there are secrets hidden away in the deadlands to those brave enough, and willing to give up enough of themselves, to find them.