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<Snipped quote by Vacare>

Do you think the magic worked on its own to make this, or did someone have to cast it?
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There was a thing like this back on my old world... Places marked with such sadness and hate that the spirits and feelings lingered as a wound in the world. Going through them, people would hallucinate and lose themselves in the miasma of the past. It works a little differently here... I think... And this is just conjecture... But whoever's still lingering here suffered so much and left a wound on this land...