The Dust Bowl

Physical Description

• General Overview: A massive circular depression of dust and nothingness where a large part of the central mountain range once stood, created when the Entropy Shepherd demonstrated his power by reducing the mountains to dust. The area is now a desolate wasteland patrolled by Void Titans,
• Sensory Details: The air feels thin and wrong, with an oppressive silence broken only by the sound of dust shifting in unnatural winds. Light seems to dim here, and warmth is actively pulled from living beings. The horizon shimmers with temporal distortions.
• Points of Interest:
  • The Center: The exact point where the mountains once stood
  • Void Titan Territories: Areas where these beings of nothingness patrol
  • Temporal Anomaly Zones: Pockets where time behaves strangely

Encounters & Events

The Mountain's Dissolution

• Summary of Event: Within the last decade, the Entropy Shepherd performed an impossible feat by turning a mountain range into dust overnight. This demonstration of power shocked the world and proved the Shepherd's threat was real. The event created the wasteland now known as the Dust Bowl.
• Characters Involved: The Entropy Shepherd
• Outcome, Decisions & Consequences: Created fear across all nations, sparked the eventual formation of the Fellowship, left a permanent scar on the continent

History & Lore

• Known History:
  • Ancient Collaboration Site (Session 3 Discovery): Master Carillon's research revealed that the mountain destroyed to create The Dust Bowl was the site where dwarves and elves worked together on sound, music, and instruments - the collaboration that produced the Song of Beginnings
  • Targeted Destruction: The Entropy Shepherd's specific targeting of this location suggests the Song of Beginnings or the collaboration site itself posed a threat to the Shepherd's plans
  • Lost Knowledge: The destruction eliminated crucial understanding about how the Song of Beginnings was originally created or performed
• Rumors & Legends:
  • "Those that venture never return": Common saying about anyone who enters the Dust Bowl
  • The Mountains Never Were: Some claim the Shepherd didn't destroy the mountains but made them never exist
  • Memory Circle Destination (Session 3): The Tearful Guard revealed that the Memory Circle plans to take non-believers to The Dust Bowl where they will "disappear forever"
• Current Events:
  • Void Titan Patrols**: These entropy beings actively patrol the wasteland
  • Expanding Influence: The wasteland may be slowly growing
  • Memory Circle Destination: Being used as a site for disposing of those who resist the Memory Circle's philosophy

Secrets & Discoveries

• Unrevealed Secrets:
  • What Lies at the Center: No one has reached the center and returned
  • The True Nature of the Void: What exactly the Void Titans are guarding or doing
  • Why This Site Specifically: What made this collaboration site such a threat that the Shepherd completely destroyed it
  • Can It Be Restored: Whether the collaboration site or the Song of Beginnings work can be recreated elsewhere
• Player Discoveries:
  • Collaboration Site (Session 3): Learned this was where dwarves and elves worked together on the Song of Beginnings
  • Memory Circle Destination (Session 3): Discovered the Memory Circle uses this location to make people "disappear forever"