The Motes
Islands in the Sky
The LANDS OF THE MOTES ARE SINGULAR ACROSS CRUDILEX. uNQIUE IN MANY WAY BUT NAMELY IN THERE NAMESAKE. tHE FLOATING ISLANDS THAT HOVER IN CLUMPS FLOATING A DUSTY PURPLE BARREN.
a MYSTERIOUS MAGICAL SUBSTANCE CALLED iRAI, A PURPLE QUARTZ LIKE CRTSYAL THAT DEFYS GRAVITY AND HOVERS IN THE AIR IMMOVABLE IARI'S TRAITS CHANGE DEPENDING UPON THE OTHER SUBSTANCES IT INTERACTS WITH. tHE VARIOUS EFFECTS ARE TO THIS DAY STILL BEING DISCOVERED- BUT THE FEW
kNOWN INTERACTIONS HAVE SO CHANGED THE WORLD ACROSS CRUDILEX AS IS. aND THE MOTES IS PERHAPS THE MOST ABUNDANT RESERVE OF IARI. each OF THE COUNTLESS FLOATING ISLANDS HAS A SUBSTANTIAL GEODE IN IT'S CORE KEEPING THE ISLAND AFLOAT.
Nearly all of the power the isolationist nation of nostridan is drawn from mining and exploring the motes. even so the floating islands are something of a frontier wild. Climbers and aeronaughts call this place home and eat back the wilds to forge something of a life here.
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no day in the motes is easy but the rewards are great for those who are willing to go in for adventure.
citadel vALE
The secretive outsiders called pith live also in the motes. None are sure how it is that they managed to erect the massive purple citadel out in the barren undermote. Yet its there, Deep in a crag surrounded in a constant nebulous cloud and full of nearly 5000 pith.
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the race who is nearly twice or three times the intelligence of a normal human remains here behind the walls of there city. The landscape around pith settlements has a way of mutating into an alien-like twist. It is beacuse of this they often settle in far off locations like Vale. And the last 20 years has changed this cragg beyond anything recognizably crudilexian.
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iT'S JAGGED, ROCKY OUTCROPS ARE FULL WITH COARL LIKE PLANTS AND MOTESPRITES WHO FLOAT ABOUT LIKE FLYING JELLYFISH. navigating THIS PLACE IS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT FOR ANYONE WHO CANT CHANGE INTO A LESS SUBSTANTIAL FORM AS THE PITH CAN.
Mote Islands
there ARE MANY ISLANDS POPULATED AND WITH UNIqE CULTURES ALL THERE OWN.
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Moteport
The ruler of Grand Nostridam is called a lerin. The lerin is a combinations of king, General, and religious leader. IT IT BELIEVED THE LERiN WAS GIFTED ITS POWER FORM DORMIS. AND AS SUCH ITS RULE IS UNQUESTIONABLE.
it is also belived that when the Leirn dies it is reincarnated somewhere in the world. So a sacred group of covert agents is always ready to infultrate the 3 other nations to find the infant leirn and return them to high edorin.
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cROWNROOST
highest of all the motes nearly 3 miles above the Undermote. the air is thin and frigid unsuitable for most life. However it's peoples find it exaactly suited to there life style. The arakocra have a roost that lives a tribalistic life, protecting eggs and hatchlings, and using irai in spiritual ceremonies that they believe brings them closer to the mysterious nature of the Motes.
rOIAN mining operation
The main nostrdian mining operation in the motes. It's Powerful Rendcresk class Skiffs are seen constantly headed too and from roa carrying massive loads of Iari crystals and equipments.
kINGMAKER OUTLOOK
The cliffside of the southern most mountain range of deitziel lies a fortress surrounded by a small town. this is the last holding of the kingmakers mercenary guild. once a small city the group was disbanded after the war of red sands in deitziel. only IT'S ABSOLUTE MOST ZEALOUS MEMBERS REMAIN TODAY.
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TODAY AS IN ITS GLORY DAYS THE GUILD ACCEPTS ANY MEMBER WHO OR SUCCESSFULLY COLLECT ON A BOUNTY PUT FORTH BY THE GUILD OF NO LESS THAN 5000 GOLD. THIS PRACTICE HAS MADE REBUILDING TO THE POWER HOUSE OF FIGHTERS THAT THE GUILD ONCE WAS.
Vogchoga the flying Tyrant
cRUDILEX IS HOME TO SOME LEGENDARY HORRORS AND MONSTERS MANY OF WHICH LIVE IN THE WILD UNTAMMED NORTHLEND BUT ACROSS THE WORLD ARE POCKETS WHERE CIVILISATION HAS YET TO TAKE A FOOT HOLD AND SUCH IS TRUE ON THE MOTE OF vOGCHOGA.
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THE MASSIVE APE LEAPS HUNDREDS OF FEET BETWEEN MOTES AND CAN PULL WHOLE AIRSHIPS OUT OF THE SKY. THE HERALD OF IT'S COMING IS ALWAYS A CLOUD OF SWALLOW LIKE BIRDS WHO SWARM IN A CLOUD ON THE MOTE AND AROUND VOGCHOGA. THESE CREATURES ARE EXTREAMLY RARE AND AS FAR AS ANYONE KNOWS TO THIS DAY HAVE NEVER BEEN SEEN BEYOND THE MOTE OF THE FLYING TYRANT.
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VOGCHOGA ISNT COMPLETELY ANIMALISTIC. INFACT HIS ATTACKS BEYOND HIS OWN MOTE SEEM TO BE
carefully CONSIDERED AND MEASURED IN SUCH A WAY THAT PREVENTS ANY GREAT SETTLEMENT FROM GAINING A FOOTHOLD IN THE MOTES, THUS WHERE THE LEGENDARY BEAST GOT THE NAME THE FLYING TYRANT.
cloud OF FAMINE
The Milborne Soceity
Hitmen make up this group of arcane murderers. They have a firm control of over the business and there compition tends to vanish. rumors say this group of high class mobsters dose it for sport.
The oldest gang. Founded by a great hero as a makeshift army to combat the crime of Crudilex but has since become brutal gang of Thieves and murderers operating under a strict code. cornering THE PROTECTION RACKET THEY WILL KEEP OTHER CARTELS IN LINE. fOR A FEE OF CORSE.
Dustwind Barrens
Beyond the motes to the south east as the winds blow sand and spent powdered iari spreads as far as one can see into the horizon. Nothing grows and only the occosional mote can be seen in the sky, more frequently huge jagged bolders poke out of the dunes like knives. the geodes at there cores have spent there internal energies and plummeted from the sky. nothing grows in the barrens, not even normal desert life can
get a foot hold here. AND THE FURTHER ONE JOURNEYS INTO THE DUSTWIND BARRENS THE MORE RARE LIFE BECOMES. AT A POINT DEEPEST WITHIN ANYONE HAS BEEN RECORDED TO TRAVEL THIS TRUTH SEEMS TO BRIDGE INTO SUPERNATURAL TERRITORY.
THE BARRENS SEEM TO DRAIN LIFE AWAY, SLOWLY PULLING VITAL ENERGIES AWAY FROM ANY LIVING THING THAT HAS THE MISFORTUNE OF VENTURING INTO IT. AFTER A POINT MORTAL CAN TRED NO FURTHER WITHOUT CONSTANT HEALING MAGICS TO NEGATE THE STRANGE EFFECT.
iT IS SAID THAT SOMETHING WAITS OUT THERE. bUT TO KNOW FOR SURE SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE
An old necromancer known once as regent Woodrow has been living at the absolute edge of the barrens trying to find whatever secrets lie undiscovered in the purple dunes.
DEACON pRISON
Constructed of the Rare alloy known as black iron. The deacon prison is perhasp one of the most fortified keeps in the world WITH A MASSIVE IRON DOOR INTO IT'S INTERRIOR DOCK AS THE ONLY WAY INSIDE ANDMORE THAN 1000 CANNONS, HARPOONS, AND THO-CELL WEAPONS. NO ONE HAS EVER ESCAPED THE CLUTCHES OF THE DEACON FAMILY ONCE THEY RE INTERRED INSIDE. tHE PRISON HOUSES A SMALL FLEET WHO SERVES AS A SECOUNDARY DEFENCE TO CIRRUS ON HIGH
aND REMAINS MOORED INSIDE THE INTERNAL DOCKS READY TO DEFEND AGISNT ANY ILL CONSEVED DIRECT ASSAULT TO THE PRISON.
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wHAT HAPPENS WITHIN THE PRISON IS LARGELY A MYSTERY AS VERY FEW OF IT'S PRISONERS EVER SERVE LESS THAN A LIFE SENTENCE. THE FEW THAT LEAVE MENTION ALL MANOR OF UNBELIEVABLE AND OFTEN CONFLICTING THINGS. the ONLY PERSISTENT THING IS THE THE ENCHANTMENT ARCANA EXPERIMENTS PREFORMED ON DEATH ROW INMATES. SOME SAYING THEY EVEN GO AS EXTREME AS MEMORY ALTERATION AND MIND CONTROL.
The prison serves as the home base of the Deacon family mafia, one of the 6 criminal powers of nostrian known as the cartels
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