Category:The Near Reaches

"A torrid province where one could slip between realms, should they try hard enough."

- Scholar Al'Jibran

At a Glance
The Near Reaches are a land of peril and arcane sensitivity. The region, littered with ruins of the ancient Deva civilization, lies on the centre on a series of magical ley-lines, making it easier to form rifts and portals into other planes of existence. The renowned sorcerer and illusionist Moor, the Dragon of Lyne, used one of these ley-line convergences to travel into the apocalyptic future of Dark Sun and the Kalashtar, seeking to escape the genocide in the Realm of Dreams, were able to travel from their realm into The Near Reaches. The most ominous tear in reality leads to the realm of death, The Shadowfell (accesible through the black castle Halruth), in which The Raven Queen herself resides.

Sparsely populated, most of The Near Reaches' inhabitants have left for safer pastures, save for one kingdom: the magical oligarcy of Kathlon City. The sole place of light in a dark, haunted realm, the remnants of the Deva reside here and seek to guard the torrential magics that lie beneath its surface.