#homebrewsetting

Takamul is the second of the sisterhood, she used parts of the elemental planes and inspiration from material worlds all over the multiverse to bring life to the cog

The world of Notollia is dominated by a single continent surrounded by an ocean of deep water. The bedrock is soft, made of limestone and chewed through by erosion into a maze of caves. While most of the caves on the upper layers have been explored and mined out for minerals ,miles of lower tunnels have yet to be uncovered. Merchants will pay good coin to adventure who are willing to explore the depths and chart new passages hoping they will find the next vein of gold or uncovered treasures. Exploration is hard as many of the caves are unstable prone to collapse while others are filled with salt water leeched in from the ocean. At the lowest depths hordes of Notollian goblins thrive and attack travelers eating them alive if captured. They have grayish skin, and are blind using vibrations to sense movement. They live in primitive hovels of stone and use crude or stolen tools. They take prisoners for sacrifice bringing them to a supposed temple rumored about by escaped prisoners, but never seen, rumors of the deep crypts caves. The deep crypt caves are supposedly giant vaults of smooth black stone ,endless watery halls ,pulsing light and an alter of rotating alien glass. Told again and again by the escape's they claim the alter is intelligent taking the sacrificed to another realm but no one knows for sure. While many have tried to retrace there steps to find these legendary halls no one thus far has been able to find the deep crypts. Some towns are built over the caves using the passages to connect houses and secret tunnels. Thieves and cult use the caves to smuggle black market goods or preform rituals, leaving local magistrates to flush out the caves with the local guard or hire adventure, though most cults just go deeper...often escaping justice. The surface is covered in fungal forests that grow similar to pines in shape. Often colored red, green and browns, they are soft and thrive in the damp climate of the planet, making poor building material forcing the Federation to build there towns with limestone brick or imported material. However the forests can be mined for earth gel and along the coast 100s of mining platforms draw in water gel from the sea. The ocean is mostly occupied by red tube worms that can grow into the size of whales. While mostly feeding off plankton some have been known to attack small ships or probe the coast looking for swimmers. Deeper, the water of the ocean becomes more a sludge as it seems to mix with an ooze like substance known as Helbrine. The ooze seems to leak from other dimensions and takes on ghostly shapes of faces and demons, sometimes forming into nonspeaking horrors from far dimensions, a far realm far that sometimes gets just a little two close to reality and leaks in raw insanity. At the center of the continent a huge blast creator scars the landscape into a barren wasteland void of any life. Made of red glass, the basin is filled with the skeletal remains of anything living that tries to enter. As if hit by a powerful necromancy spell, any who do enter wither and collapse in seconds leaving most to wonder about the swirling red storm at the center. Like a massive tornado of churning energy, voices are heard in the thunder and shapes are seen in the lighting flashes. While some think the deep crypts and Helbrine are connected to the red storm in truth no one knows, what is certain is the reality on the world of Notollia is cracking and no one knows what will happen once it shatters. For more information on the oceanic anomalies on other worlds please provide the correct security clearance to your head librarian.

the vast majority of the inhabitants live on the horizontal cog, which has topography taken by the sisterhood of goddesses from planes of elemental creation.

Art by @lnr_lavish

The cog is surrounded by an aethersphere, a bubble of realmspace under the goddess control. There is no comparable sun, but a light and dark side of the sphere itself. the cog has five moons, one associated with each of the goddesses.

the vertical cog is very hard to travel to, surrounded by hundreds of miles of freezing temperatures. the vertical cogs itself is home to creatures originally native to other realms, angels, devils, demons and those in between.

Sixir is still venerated, but her position at the head of the sisterhood is questionable, around five hundred years before the present day of 1117, she suffered a period of volatility known as the madness of Sixir

For more information on the depths of Dolian please submit top level clearance to the head librarian of Examplia.