As promised, here's post number two for tonight. Behold another corner of the world of Darker Places, also inspired by Lovecraft; Xura, the land of Pleasures Unattained.
From the outside, Xura looks like a paradise on earth. Vast hills and valleys of flowers and verdant life as far as they eye can see. On the outside, the wilderness of Xura appeals to every sense, but scratching the surface of this wonderland reveals the gangrenous infection under the surface.
The winds of Xura carry both the songs of joyous celebration and revelry as well as the wretched strench of plague deaths and charnel pits. Every hill of flowers grows ravenously atop catacombs and mass graves. Nothing lives in Xura. Things may suffer and rot and decompose within the corruption of their own desires, but nothing truly lives in Xura. Even the vibrant greenery only feeds on the death and rot of spent desire and lost joy. Xura is a carnivorous land that masks its blighted nature with a painted surface, like a bright and colorful mask disguising the face of a desecrated corpse.
Enjoy the Hunter's Moon! It's supposed to be marvelous. I have a tree in the way...
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