A Single Dirty Shoe
"We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars." - Ivan Turgenev
The world of Caspian
- Useful Tips:
- Do not, under any circumstances drink the water.
- The City of Denbrawg
The only city on Caspian, located on the swamp dominated continent of Forok. Although calling any landmass on Caspian a continent tends to be an exaggeration of sorts as none of them are particularly very large, nor is there much in the way of solid land to be found. Denbrawg is a collection of large structures and neighborhoods that have been built atop a series of "mostly stable" stilts and scaffolding with the towering Covenant genesis ship, bearing the name given to the planet, half sunken into the swamp at its center.
- Mr. Fideius' Nickel Mines
And this is the reason Caspian was originally colonized. These mines are expansive and terribly dangerous due to how soft the earth and stone is in the region.
- The Lor
The native race of Caspian, these primitive amphibian creatures resemble legless, serpentine newts with large bulbous pale eyes. They seem indigenous only to the swamps of Forok and were largely eradicated by early settlers when they had resisted colonization. Those that were not slain were enslaved and most of their kind were sold and shipped off world, though it is rumored that one of the Covenant Dukes that lives on Caspian has acquired a taste for their flesh and breeds them for that purpose. The lor are still a somewhat common sight within Denbrawg, generally serving as slaves of menial labor.
- Sotori Forest
The largest continent on Caspian is covered entirely in dense forest. Sotori is extremely dangerous and generally avoided as it home to many nature fragments called kami that possess the power to dominate the wildlife and animate the land and forest to attack invaders.
- Ainu Ruins
The largest Nir ruin in the solar system, with a diameter of nearly 40 miles on the surface. The distance the ruin delves into the depths of the world has yet to be determined. Ainu is renown for it's stronger than normal psionic resonance (rank 4) and as a result, it's larger population of psychic ghosts and temporal shift phenomenon. These factors hint at a particularly powerful artifact deep within the ruins and has lured artifact and treasure hunters for decades. No explorer having gone beyond the third detected level of temporal shift (which was determined to be a temporal difference of 1 to 256) has ever returned. It is rumored that they are still down there, unaware that so many years have passed them by on the surface or caught up in a psychic ghost's never ending nightmare.
