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Characters in The Festering Lands exist in a kingdom reshaped by the Rotmire Blight, political fragmentation, quarantine, scarcity, renewed interest in the Old Ways, and the return of relics whose purpose is poorly understood. This guide describes stable setti...

Silver has changed from ordinary wealth into one of Norvostra's most important survival resources. It is the only material widely known to permanently disrupt fully turned Blighted creatures, making it at once a weapon material, emergency reserve, political as...

“The dead do not rest in Faulmoor.” — Doctor Kyra Sheer The Rotmire Blight is the name used across Norvostra for the catastrophe affecting living bodies, water, soil, vegetation, wildlife, and the dead. It is most visible in Faulmoor, where quarantine walls, a...

“I thought it was crawling the wrong way. Like... like its belly was leading. Then the guts came out. Gods help me, the guts were looking for me.” A Spillgut is a Blightborn whose abdomen and lower torso have opened into a crawling mass of exposed tissue, mout...

“They don’t fight like the others. They make you come to them.” The Whisperer is one of the rarest named forms of Blightborn. It is known less for brute force than for deception. Travelers report hearing familiar voices from empty houses, fog-shrouded roads, c...

“They are the ones we expected. The ones we thought we understood. The ones we thought we could handle. But it is not just their hunger that makes them terrifying. It is their numbers.” Shamblers are the most common form of Blightborn encountered in Faulmoor. ...

“I swear on my life, we sank the boat. They shouldn’t be here. They shouldn’t be here.” The Drowned are water-adapted Blightborn associated with rivers, flooded ruins, marsh channels, lakes, harbors, and coastal waters. Many are believed to be the remains of p...

“It began as a convulsion, the corpse doubled over, chest heaving like bellows. Then its jaw snapped open, and that burning, foul liquid came out.” A Rotspitter is a ranged Blightborn whose throat and upper torso have become reservoirs for corrosive fluid. Unl...

“They leapt from the shadows, hitting us like starving beasts. Their ferocity wasn’t human. It was primal, desperate.” The Wretched are fast, feral Blightborn most often associated with starvation, isolation, and places where survivors turned on one another be...

“They just… stand there. Staring. Like they're waiting for something.” A Watcher is a Blightborn known for long periods of complete stillness and an unnerving fixation on the living. Older field notes used the name Stillborn, but Watcher has become the preferr...

“At first, we mistook it for another of the countless pitiful shamblers that infest the marsh. We joked nervously, taking bets on who'd land the killing blow. How quickly our laughter died.” A Blightburst is a swollen Blightborn whose body has become a pressur...

“Steel does not forget. Neither do they.” Broken Lords are Blightborn found in the remains of soldiers, guards, officers, and other trained fighters. They are distinguished not by unusual anatomy so much as by the disturbing persistence of habits learned in li...

“Purity is not measured in mercy. It is measured in the number of corpses left behind.” The Penitent is a white-veiled religious executioner whose name has become associated with uncompromising judgment, suspected Blight, and the harsher edges of Lathanderite ...