I can’t go without handing a few firm nods to the sources that nudge this idea into existence. As no one has ever reached the bottom Tower levels, who can really say? A Firm Nod A few outlying scholars suggest that the Earth Towers might be a Symbarian city impaled by a dungenesis eruption centuries past, but the spikes have since decayed away or sunk back beneath. Many linger and become part of the new landscape they create – others diminish, crumble or even subside back into the soil. Most splinters only emerge part of the way, rarely topping the height of the trees by more than a dozen yards. Dungenesis causes an explosion of rock and earth as the spines pierce the surface with considerable speed and force, utterly wrecking the landscape for miles around. The forms have become twisted and broken, subject to collapse or expansion that make the insides difficult to explore or even traverse.įrom the perspective of the limited ‘archaeology’ completed by more studious treasure-hunters, it seems like the ruins have come to them rather than the other way around. Why the term dungenesis? The curious loremasters of later ages – including those of current day from the Ordo Magica – found these extrusions to be parts of ancient architecture, honeycombed with corridors and chambers. As if seeking out an itch, these fingers poke and prod through the underground and appear at random. The harmful magicks of the Symbaroum triggered them.įor the centuries following the decline of the Symbaroum Empire, splinters and spines of stone have punctured the surface like swords piercing the soft belly of a hated enemy. They had the power to control and transform the elements themselves, twisting and shaping the world to fulfil their needs and serve as their defenses. Deep beneath the ground lie the relics and landscapes of truly ancient civilisation, aeons past, and one of those – like the Symbarian enchanters – harnessed magic so powerful the incantations and ritual of today pale in comparison. However, the land has not responded with Davokar alone. The creatures of the forest, perhaps once the hunted have now physically twisted and transformed in aberrant hunters. Once tall trees stood tall over great stretches of lush green undergrowth now, dark and gnarled guardians with weathered bark hunch over tracts of land thick with barbed underbrush. There’s Always a Bigger Fishĭavokar has expanded, thickened and deepened over the last thousands of years, from several smaller patches of a forest into the substantial blanket that exists at present. Whatever the truth of the matter, the Davokar forest has grown like a scab across the pustulent wound. Did it kill them or has the power flowed across the land because when they vanished it went unchecked? Given the scattered records, the complex language and the period of time passed, historians and loremasters have struggled to determine whether the corruption erupted before or after. Then they disappeared, almost as if the Empire never existed. They sought to harness magic in ways previously never achieved through a combination of lore and experiment now thankfully lost. A reign lasting thousands of years vanished almost overnight.Ĭorruption saturates the land because of what they did. Not least the Empire likely fell because of what they did. They attained new heights in the process, but at considerable cost. The results they achieved in the realms of magic and technology came about through the discovery and adaptation of the work of many past civilisations. The phrase “ Standing on the shoulders of giants” serves best to describe how the Symbaroum Empire came to harness such power. The Symbaroum legacy owes much to the civilisations that came before – and the world now suffers for it. It simply happened to be the last and had left an undeniable imprint in its wake. The Symbaroum Empire was not the first great civilisation to grace the world. And if the Symbaroum Empire has such an impact on today with artifacts, ruins, traps and Abominations – what havoc might the creations of the ancestors beset upon the unknowing? That Is Not Dead The fact that the Symbaroum Core Book covers the most civilisation before the present day kicks off the thinking what came before. Heck, outside of this blog you probably won’t hear it either, except in reference to this blog! You will never hear that word in the world of Symbaroum. The forest would exist if the corruption didn’t, but not to the same extent and certainly not with the same level of destructive ferocity bottled up inside. Davokar exists as a reaction by the environment to the damage inflicted upon it.
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