I'll second Red, looks good.
I'll second Red, looks good.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
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I can't see any reason why this shouldn't be the final version of this map. It almost has to be, because I'll be back at work tomorrow and won't have time to come add anything, let alone drive here to my mother's to upload it. Let that be a lesson: Internet contests are HARD when you don't have the internet... but not impossible.
In any case, read the story that goes with it.
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Here are the Savage Lands of Tiera Ka'al, which were surely not always referred to as such, though no living being would be able to contest it.
The map tells the story of Tiera Ka'al herself, and of the black dragon Shadowgleam. It was the dragon's rampage that took Tiera's newlywed husband. Tiera fled with the other survivors, but swore to return to exact her revenge on the black beast.
Years later she did just that. Her magicks perfected, she found Shadowgleam's Landing without fail, and confronted the beast directly. The dragon, though, was powerful, and thought Tiera little more than a nuisance. And so she left.
She returned again years later, and this time lured the great black beast past Shadow Lake and over the mountains. Her powers had grown, as well as her determination, but still Shadowgleam was too powerful and defeated her.
Her body lay broken--but alive--on a towering cliff above the ocean, as that was Shadowgleam's way. For days she lay in the basking sun mourning the loss of her husband and cursing the gods for allowing it to happen. And when she finally found the energy to stand, she flung herself from that cliff into the cold waters below.
She found herself washed upon a desecrated beach, and she was changed. She was alive but dead all the same, and suddenly death didn't matter to her anymore.
In time Shadowgleam became bored and wished that his rival would visit him again. He even went to visit her bones he left upon the perch over the ocean, but was disappointed when there were none. It was there when he sensed the unholy presence in the south calling to him.
He landed on that vile beach and saw her, and she him. The dragon bowed, and the lich Tiera Ka'al had her victory, and her lover.
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