Darkness

The Darkness is a malicious substance expelled by the Darkness Engine, and found in all place in The Dark Continent north of Thistleland and former homeland of The Gamanic people.

The Darkness can come in three forms, which have different properties and threats:

Vapor: This is the darkness that covers the entire Dark Continent, a thick black fog that cuts out all light giving the appearance of pitch black to all it surrounds. The Vapor Darkness muffles all sound inside it, cutting down noises to less then fifteen feet, and replaces that sound with a heavy silence that seems to push into your core. Without a source of light to keep the Darkness at bay, it will swallow up anyone inside it, and lowly make said person loose their sense of self. Once this happen, they are unmade by the Vapor. A candle is enough to keep this darkness at bay.

Liquid: Fluid darkness that loosely follows gravity, this rarer type will try to carry away those unprotected by light, flowing around them and sweeping them off their feet, submerging them, seeping under the clothes and infesting into the person, before melting them away in but a few moments. Once swept away, few survive. Lanterns can keep this darkness at bay as is flows around the light, and a beam of light can evaporate it into the Vapor.

Solid: Horrible, horrible things! The Screaming and Screeching Darkness and the rarest of the three, this type of Darkness was the horror that spilled forth from the Darkness Engine itself when active, shredding anything in their way. Sometimes jagged shapes and forms that are familiar can be seen on it, and sometimes it seems to be half creatures, or several in one. This horrific darkness retains a constant mass as it moves, though it can change it's savage form almost at will. Angered and able to approach a candle that burns it even as it forces itself ahead, it can be held at bay with a lantern, and will react to the light with metal grinding like screeches and scraping when a beamed light slices at it. Since the Darkness Engine is no longer active these are rare types to come across, but when an encounter hits, it hits like a truck at a hundred miles an hour. Entire ten man Adventure Groups that stood their ground have been lost in seconds. Strong light will either melt them to Liquid Darkness, or if illuminating enough, sublimate their screaming, thrashing forms to Vapor.

The Vapor Darkness is found universally in the dark Continent and covers all areas. The Liquid Darkness can be found more the further in you go to the continent, and the Solid Darkness is only found more commonly at the very center of the darkness, with the very rare Solid form venturing to the outer parts of the continent.