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THE DEMON WASTES INTERESTING THINGS
Capital: None ABOUT THE WASTES
Noted for Fiends, pestilence, violence
• Stories tell of the lost city of Ashtakala, a
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Rivers of lava cut across plains of black sand
The libraries of Ashtakala contain arcane
and volcanic glass. The only vegetation you can
secrets and details about the Draconic
see is blood-red moss and a thick layer of slime,
Prophecy and its vaults hold untold
and that appears to be moving. A jagged rock treasures.
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or perhaps that’s just your imagination. • The Demon Wastes contain portals to
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This is the Demon Wastes. Tens of thousands
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layers of the Abyss in the core cosmology,
was the seat of power of some of the mightiest
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demons. These foul spirits were bound long ago,
but their power still lingers in this place. Vile get the supplies they need to survive.
creatures continue to crawl up from the depths of
Khyber. And there are a handful of primordial CHARACTERS FROM THE WASTES
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[\QTT JM PWUM \W ÅMVL[ IVL \PMQZ \ZMI[]ZM[ If you’re from the Demon Wastes, you likely fall
A mountain range known as the Labyrinth into one of two categories.
separates the Demon Wastes from the Eldeen Ghaash’kala. You’ve been raised in one of
Reaches. Due to ancient warding magic, any the harshest lands in Eberron and spent your
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the Labyrinth. These passes are guarded by the post? Have you had a vision from Kalok Shash?
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Shash; they consider the people of the Five They’re deeply devoted to their faith and might
Nations to be soft and naive. be paladins (Vengeance or Devotion), clerics
The Carrion Tribes are savage barbarians (Life, Light, or War) or Zealot barbarians.
who dwell in the Wastes. Each tribe is devoted Hermit and outlander are logical backgrounds:
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other Carrion Tribes. These people are mostly the harshest environments.
humans, but there are corrupted orcs, half-orcs, Carrion Tribes. Why have you left the
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other races represented. The Carrion Tribes are traditions of your demon-worshipping clan?
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a more immediate threat to Khorvaire? Either
way, you are a stranger in a strange land: a
savage used to a constant battle for survival in a
world shaped by demons.
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