Starfall Chasm

Starfall Chasm is a Tier 3 neutral/contested dominion in the continent of Khaïrnóth.

During the War in Heaven, the wrecked hull of a massive starship fell from the skies here and tore a vast crater in the earth. The ocean rushed in to fill the gaping hole, creating a great lake which covers most of the region. Much of the land that remains here now consists of only shattered rocks and the tall, treacherous cliffs that overlook the crater. Here lies an ancient secret: hidden beneath the churning, dark waters rests forgotten knowledge that holds the power to reach the distant stars.

Over millennia, the broken and tortured earth has been eroded by powerful ocean currents, which have carved a vast network of tunnels and caves that surround the crater. In some parts of Starfall Chasm, sections of the giant starship can still be seen rising from the ground and the sea. Lánaraï forces now desperately search the land and even the very depths of the lake to find parts of the starship that will reveal the secrets to their long-lost technology and allow them to return to the stars.

The massing armies of the Kheïtanni have responded in kind, seizing the opportunity to hunt down and kill vulnerable Lánaraï expeditions and search parties. Though the Kheïtanni care little for the notion of returning to the stars, they plan to keep any ancient artefact they find – mostly simply to prevent it from falling into Lánaraï hands, though they also hope to discover the secrets to ancient and powerful weapons which they can rebuild and use to crush their traitorous kin.

Starfall Chasm is bordered by the sea on the west and mountains on nearly all other sides – The Pillars of Heaven to the south, The Silver Spine to the east and Evermoon Crag, the highland home of the Kheïtanni to the northwest. But to the north and northeast, the land flattens, giving way to the dark and primaeval forests of Duskwood Vale.

Mórinaïkharóth

Mórinaïkharóth (lit: ‘the city of death’) lies in a labyrinthine cave system intertwined around a massive crater carved into the earth’s crust by a great and ancient starship which fell stricken from the firmament during the War in Heaven. The Mórin – a dark, secretive and mysterious human sect – have built a great temple city here and guard it savagely. Any who dare enter its dank and abysmal caverns will either be captured and offered as sacrifices to a nameless god, or else find themselves prey to any one of the cavern’s more sinister inhabitants. The few who return do not do so unscathed. Theirs is a fate far worse – the final few days of their pitiful lives spent screaming and babbling incoherently about tales of vile rituals and terrible beasts who dwell in those forsaken depths.

However, there are some who know what great and ancient ship fell here many thousands of years ago, they know the incomprehensible value of the forgotten knowledge and technology hidden in its shattered ruins, and they are willing to risk everything to possess it.