Fethmyre

This article is about a retconned term. As a result, this article is unlikely to be fully canon. It may contain information about the Lone Wolf series' historic development over time.

Fethmyre, dubbed The Province of Decay, was a Darklands realm that was retconned away. It was a province full of decay and disease, where flesh from open wounds rotted away within weeks. It was formerly ruled by Darklord Chlanzor, and during that time, it was of no interest to any other Darklord. Its largest settlement was Gazad Helkona.

It was retconned away in the second edition of The Darklands, and replaced by the realm of Northern Skaror, with similar traits.

Geography

Fethmyre was a realm that was capable of rotting anything, even the flesh of Deathspawn, with only the Darklords immune. Once dead, they become undead. The only notable settlement within Fethmyre was Gazad Helkona, a towering black rotting fortress.

A sulphurous dust, which could escalate into a dust storm, blanketed the realm. Volcanic activity from the Kokozritzaga could cause tremors throughout the southern part of Fethmyre, sometimes tearing open the ground with molten lava.

The petrified Helkona Forest, south of Gazad Helkona, reeked of sulphurous decay, and contained no edible flora nor fauna.

Politics

During the time of Archlord Zagarna, Fethmyre was ruled by Darklord Chlanzor. A limited political operator himself, Fethmyre was a useful buffer realm to isolate himself from the political scheming of his fellow Darklords. Chlanzor spent most of his time accumulating knowledge about necromancy, undeath and disease magic, and sent slaves to search for the power source responsible for causing the decay within his realm.

History

Darklord Chlanzor became Lord of Fethmyre some time before the time of Archlord Zagarna.

After his death, the power of decay waned somewhat. In MS 5083, during the events of Trail of the Wolf, Grand Master entered Fethmyre through the southern Helkona forest to infiltrate Gazad Helkona, where Lone Wolf had been captured by Zorkaan the Soultaker.

Design

Fethmyre only appears in the first edition of The Darklands, as the domain of Darklord Chlanzor. In the second edition, it was renamed Northern Skaror, and given a slightly-different set of characteristics — no longer is it purely a bastion of decay, but one where vicious dust storms plague the region, which hosts a very small number of living fauna.