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Varath Mortis

Anvil of War

Wildwelt Varath Mortis: Hochgras und Dornenwald mit verbrannten Festungen, Höhlenmäulern und einem Belagerungsfeuer

Classification (multiple allowed)

Feral World

Sector / Segmentum

Segmentum Obscurus

Description

Varath Mortis — not always known by this name — was once a wilderness world of primitive character, inhabited by warlike tribes divided between two species. The Valdri were tall, bony, with skin that shimmered faintly violet. The Keth'var were lower-built and more muscular, with leathery, grey-brown pearled skin and eyes that saw in the infrared; they lived in the deep caverns.
Home world of: The Crimson Sorcerers (chapter).

Fauna & Flora

Wilderness of tall grass and thorn forest in which the sagas of the Valdri still name animals that nobody has seen; violet moss at the springs and big cats that keep out of the sorcerers' way.

Population & Society

Once warlike tribes of two species, among them the Valdri, tall and bony, with skin that shimmers faintly violet. Today some thousands of descendants live in caves and villages in which the Crimson Sorcerers have found refuge; the old tribal names survive only in the sagas.