Gena Disaster

Immediate to the north of Wasteward Keep is the Lost Kingdom of Gena, now more commonly referred to as the Gena Wastes. More than a century ago, during the final years of the Age of the Warring Kingdoms, the Mage-King of Gena and his wizards learned to tap into powerful elemental magics. In a short time, Gena went from being a small borderland kingdom to controlling a great portion of the northern human lands. Not even the fey were able to withstand their magics, and they soon expanded farther into the feywilds far beyond the former border of human settlement. For almost 20 years, their power grew exponentially, until many expected they would be the force that welded together the fragmented lands of the old Empire. The only greater human power lay with House Telkar. Then tragedy struck. Nobody knows exactly what happened, but one night 100 years ago, as the armies of House Telkar marched on their borders, vast tremors shook all of the northern lands and the night became day. Those who looked outside reported a brilliant, multi-coloured light in the direction of the city of Gena. The light was said to have rent a fissure in the sky itself. In the morning, the Mage-King and his wizards were no more. The lands within 30 leagues of the city of Gena were twisted and tainted by elemental magics unlike any had seen before. The creatures that inhabited the lands were likewise changed, and new elemental horrors began to appear. The inhabitants of Gena did not escape this effect. The city of Gena itself has disappeared, and is rumoured to have been replaced by a vast crater that has filled with the waters of the Folyoba River and none of the residents of the city of Gena are known to have survived the blast.