Abyss

The Abyss is the area below the multitude of floating islands. It is between reality and the void. Those who fall over the edge are doomed..

There exists legends that tell of the last great titans who are trapped within the abyss, forever lost between reality and the void. No one who had sailed down into the deep have returned. But occasionally great islands raise from the depths covered in a strange red metallic ooze. The ooze is referred to as Primal Slime and is prized by arcane researchers and biomancers for it's stable mutagenic properties. The Vayan refer to the ooze as Titanite, or Ore Blood.

Abyss Divers are those few brave souls who dive down into the abyss Finding sunken islands covered in strange oozes and vines, salvaging the riches of a forgotten era. Most dismiss the claims of crawling primordial oozes or hungry red vines that lash crew and ship alike as the ravings of mad men.

The very bottom of the Abyss is a thick layer of fungus and slime. Cords of mycelium ranging from the thickness of giant trees to smaller than the eye can see slither across the great foggy expanse of the Abyssal plateau.

If one were to dig down beneath the fungus they would find a wall of crystals buried hundreds of meters down. The crystalized blood of reality. A scab that weeps reality out into the Void if the fungus mat did not seal it.

The few Abyss Divers who travel down to the very edge of reality and have seen the roots of the fungus that chokes the islands that hang lost in the Abyss claim that this fungus mat is alive. Due to the lack of gravity in the very bottom of the Abyss the edge of reality is mired in an unnatural foggy doldrum few ships that ever travel that far down escape.

The truth is that the fungus is alive in a manner of speaking. It is colossal and spans all of reality. The slime mold that clings to the heart of islands is an extension of the fungus and is what grants the floating islands of the Broken Worlds some sembalance of stability. It is also the driving force that drags islands deep into the Abyss as the fungus mat always needs more nutrients and biomass. Entire islands are consumed, rocks and stone broken and absorbed by the choking fungus roots over the course of years.

The Fungus Mat