Towns of Aetheria

The Primal Forge is the cosmic furnace where the gods forged the seals that hold creation together. It exists at the core of the world, in a space between the physical and the divine. The Corruptor has reached it, and the Forge's wards are failing. Ancient evils sealed since the First Age are breaking free.

The Forge Tyrant - once the gods' greatest smith - rules here now, corrupted by the void. It commands the forge's guardians and the ancient evils that have broken free.

The Forge is a place of creation turned to destruction. Its fires still burn, but they now forge weapons of unmaking. The Forge Guardians still follow their ancient protocols, but the corruption has turned their purpose.

If the Forge Tyrant shatters the remaining seals, creation itself will unravel. The Primal Forge is the last line of defense - if it falls, the void will pour into the mortal world unchecked.

Accessible through the Soul War's citadel, using the Soul Reaver Blade. The Forge Hammer of Creation, taken from the Forge Tyrant, opens the threshold to the Void.

When the Corruptor's avatar was destroyed at the Celestial Citadel, the wound where the Fallen One was cast out tore open. The Abyssal Rift is that wound - a tear in the fabric of reality leading down into layers of existence that mortals were never meant to reach.

No government exists. Archangel Zariel maintains a small forward camp at the rift's edge, coordinating the efforts of brave adventurers who dare to descend.

The rift is not a place of life. It is a place of endings - corrupted celestials, void-tainted remnants, and the echoes of the Fallen One's fall. Those who enter do so knowing they may never return.

The rift is expanding. If not sealed, it will consume the Celestial Citadel and spread across the world. The Abyssal Maw at its center is the source of the corruption.

Accessible through a portal in the Celestial Citadel's inner sanctum, unlocked after completing the main story (Chain MS). The Abyssal Key, obtained by sealing the rift, opens the portal to Goshnar's Domain below.

Far below Thornhaven's catacombs, in the deepest darkness, Goshnar's necropolis has festered since the First Age. Goshnar was a lich-god who predated the Drowned King, and his seven aspects have slumbered here for millennia. The opening of the Abyssal Rift has awakened them.

Goshnar rules as a lich-god, his seven aspects acting as his lieutenants. Each aspect embodies a different facet of his power: Hatred, Cruelty, Spite, Malice, Greed, and twin Megalomanias.

The necropolis is a city of the dead. Bone palaces, flesh libraries, and soul forges fill its halls. The dead here do not rest - they serve, eternally.

Goshnar's awakening threatens to spread undeath across the entire world. If his seven aspects are not destroyed, his power will grow until death itself becomes his domain.

Accessible through the Abyssal Rift's core, using the Abyssal Key. The Lantern of Souls, obtained by destroying Goshnar's Heart, illuminates the path to the Soul War below.

The boundary between the mortal world and the plane of death has fractured. Ancient souls - warriors from every era since the Celestial War - are drawn here to fight an eternal war. The Soul Devourer feeds on their suffering, and the Corruptor grows stronger with every soul consumed.

There is no government - only war. Death Knight Commanders lead legions of fallen soldiers, and the Soul Devourer oversees it all from its citadel.

The souls here know only battle. They fight, die, and are reborn to fight again. Some remember their past lives; most have been consumed by the war until nothing remains but rage.

The Soul Devourer is the reason the war never ends. It consumes the combatants' souls, forcing new ones to be drawn in. If not destroyed, every soul who ever dies will be trapped here.

Accessible through Goshnar's Throne, using the Lantern of Souls. The Soul Reaver Blade, forged from the Soul Devourer's essence, cuts the boundary to the Primal Forge.

Beyond the physical world lies the Void - the formless darkness that existed before the gods shaped reality. At the threshold where Void meets creation, seven ancient entities - the Forgotten Seven - have guarded the boundary since before time. The Corruptor's awakening has disturbed them.

The Forgotten Seven do not govern - they guard. Each of the Seven protects a section of the threshold. Arbaziloth, the eldest, guards the final gate to the Heart of the Void.

The threshold is a place of endings and beginnings. Here, reality is thin, and the void presses against creation like water against a dam. The Forgotten Seven are not evil - they are simply the end of all things, and they have been disturbed.

The Forgotten Seven seek to unmake reality entirely - not out of malice, but because that is their nature. If they breach the threshold, creation will dissolve back into the void from which it came.

Accessible through the Primal Forge's anvil, using the Forge Hammer of Creation. The Threshold Key, taken from Arbaziloth, unlocks the final gate to the Heart of the Void.

At the center of the void lies the Heart - the Corruptor's true form. It is not a being but a force, the antithesis of creation. Here, reality dissolves into nothingness. The Voidheart Crystal is the only thing that can unmake the Corruptor, and it must be forged from the key items of all five layers above.

The Corruptor does not govern - it simply is. Its most powerful servants, the Void Gods, guard the approach. Bakragore the Devourer is the Corruptor's final avatar in the mortal realm.

The Heart of the Void has no culture. It is the absence of everything - no light, no sound, no time, no existence. Those who enter must carry their own reality with them or be unmade.

The Corruptor is the ultimate threat to all creation. If not destroyed, it will eventually consume everything - every world, every soul, every god. This is the final battle.

Accessible through the Void Threshold, using the Threshold Key. The Voidheart Crystal - forged from all the key items - is the only thing that can unmake the Corruptor. This is the end of the journey.

The Cursed Isle materialized in the Shattered Sea during the Sundering, when the Veil between worlds tore open. It is not a place that was built - it is a place that was condemned. The isle exists outside the natural order, anchored to the mortal world only by the weight of fallen heroes who cling to life after their final death.

None. The isle has no rulers, no laws, no order. The banished walk its shores as ghosts of their former selves, bound by the curse that keeps them alive but strands them here forever.

The banished hardcore heroes who dwell here call themselves the Veilbound. They share a grim camaraderie - each has died once, and each remembers the world they can never return to. They trade stories of their past lives around the central shrine, where an ancient tombstone marks the isle's heart.

The isle itself is the threat. There is no escape - no captains sail here, no teleport spells reach the mainland, and no portals connect to the living world. The water surrounding the isle is cursed and impassable. The banished can walk, talk, and receive mail, but they can never leave.

None. The Cursed Isle is utterly isolated. It exists in no shipping lane, no trade route, and no map of the known world. Only the Veil channel - a magical communication link - connects the banished to each other.