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===The Unterwelt=== | ===The Unterwelt=== | ||
Inside the Prime Material there are many structures. Natural forces have eddied and curdled in a reality as large and old as the Prime | Inside the Prime Material there are many structures. Natural forces have eddied and curdled in a reality as large and old as the Prime Material in a trillion, trillion different ways, and then on top of that, unnumbered hordes of deities, demi-gods, and arch-fiends have wrought their will on the fabric of the Prime. | ||
Miles below the safe, sensible ground of the Prime Material, the unseen, the mad, the bad, and the merely desperate have eked out an existence that dates back to the First Day. This titanic underground realm is | Miles below the safe, sensible ground of the Prime Material, the unseen, the mad, the bad, and the merely desperate have eked out an existence that dates back to the First Day. This titanic underground realm is, by every report, far larger than the surface lands, and filled with all manner of hungering fiends, species, clades, races, cultures, and Empires. Refugees from the fall of the First World, cthonic Early Life, degenerate but invincibly vital spirits, monsters, castoffs, leftovers, mistakes, and trash from the surface world litter every darkened inch of this titanic underground realm. | ||
Indeed, it is so large that the very name, "Unterwelt", means 'World Beneath'. | Indeed, it is so large that the very name, "Unterwelt", means 'World Beneath'. It is an entire world down there, with terrors and treasures enough for a thousand lifetimes. | ||
===The So-Called "First World" of the Elves=== | ===The So-Called "First World" of the Elves=== | ||