The Torn Lands

Surface

 * General landscape looks like iron shavings when attracted to a magnet. All the points of the rock structures point up toward the floating cities.


 * Very barren, almost no vegetation, a few grasses but thats it. Wind creates sandstorms a lot.


 * Few animals live here, reptiles, big mountain goats, and antelope.


 * Lots of deep crevasses where underground tunnels have been exposed. You can see parts of cities from the surface.

Underground - Earth's Heart

 * A surprising amount of vegetation underground, mostly mosses, ferns, ivy, and fungi. Lots of moisture, air feels kinda thick. Ancient ruin overgrowth.


 * Abandoned mining carts hang all over the underground, suspended above the cities. Some utilize these as a means of transportation, others use the cables and carts for hanging decorations, lights, and some just leave them be in remembrance of  what happened.


 * All through the underground there are tall rectangular colums, decorated to resemble warriors. They are stone golums,  similar to the golden army in Hellboy2.

People and Culture
Dwarves mainly. Most of them don’t take too kindly to elves. Only the very passionate few will actually bring harm. They use slurs..knife-ear, rabbit, dandelion eater, ect. Most other races just visited a few days on business and then leave

Mining is still in operation, although a bit deeper. The earth is almost sacred to them, and because of what happened, they repay the earth for what they take. There are sacrifices, just animals and other food, that are burned, and essentially turned back into soil and given back to the earth.

Burials work in a similar way, depending. If the person was from a mining family, their body would be placed in the furnace to fuel the fires. If they were more of farmers, they would be burned and turned to soil, along with typical sacrificial objects.

Magic is pretty frowned upon when used openly. Some people are still pretty scared about it. Basically if you have magical abilities, you keep it at home pretty much. ‘Underground Underground Magic Sparing Arena’