Mana Wastes

The ancient war between Nex and Geb did more than shatter nations — it shattered reality itself. Along the shared border between these two powerful realms, the nature of magical assaults between them escalated steadily in the centuries between –892 and 576 AR. What began as traditional skirmishes bloomed over the course of centuries of conflict into vast battles between wizard armies, legions of constructs, potent summoned monsters, and ravenous undead.

Eventually, the war reached an apocalyptic climax — mere armies of magical creatures and spell-slinging platoons were replaced by wish-powered devastations and necromantic cataclysms. When the Wizard-King Geb sent his killing mist into the city of Quantium in 576, Nex vanished and countless of his followers died in that abominable assault. The Wizard-King Geb then retreated to his own capital to brood and worry that his arch-rival might not have perished, but may instead have escaped. A tremulous peace settled over the two nations, but not over the border they once shared. Here, a new land was born — a place of devastation and ruin, where magic, when it works at all, seems to writhe with a chaotic life of its own. This land is the Mana Wastes.