☾ Geography & Environment

The Wastes are filled with drifting relic-fleets, drowned soul clusters, and Breath echoes that tear sanity. Navigating the fog requires a boneward, a death-rite, or a wish made in silence.

• The Deadwake Shoals churn with broken timelines and worm-ridden wrecks.
• Living mariners are few — most become undead wardens to survive.
• The Sea Hymn — a song heard only by the dying — is said to come from beneath.

No part of the Undead Wastes is alive. But much of it still speaks.

Climate: Perpetual mists; unnaturally calm seas; zones of black tide where no wind or life stirs.

Notable Locations:

• Dranst Spire: Bone Choir necromancer citadel — rises from the sea on a pillar of fused bone and stone.
• Wraithwake Fields: Floating graveyards of bone-bound ships and revenant fleets.
• Bone Mirror Trenches: Abyssal trenches reflecting recursion echoes — known to drive sailors mad.
• Silent Current: A tide-locked anomaly stream — source of many Bone Choir rituals.

☾ Culture & People

No cities rise in the Wastes. No trade routes hold. The only true structure here is recursion itself, looped and coiled like kelp across broken tideways.

Bone Choir sanctums operate as waystations, tomb-vaults, and ritual anchors — but they do not command fleets. They whisper rites into the fog, grow breathforged vessels, and track recursion tears in the salt. Their monks are memory-keepers, not lords.

Nhaar’Kezhul, the Tidebound Leviathan, coils in the trench beneath the Wastes. His body warps the recursion crust. His will is not one of conquest, but of weight — gravity made hunger. Some sects of the Choir whisper his name, carving marrow into anchor chains. Others deny his existence entirely.

The Lich King is not here. His Hollow lies deeper still — a recursion realm stitched from lost threads of death. Those who enter the breach at Dranst Spire do not return. What speaks back is not him, but echo made manifest.

☾ Magic & Combat

Common Magic:

• Bone, Ash, Water, Wyrd Breathforms.
• Necrotide Weaving — merging tide, recursion, and necromantic Breathforms.
• Memory-locked wards — barriers trapping soul and thought alike.

Combat Styles:

• Spine-Twist Doctrine — core Bone Choir combat form.
• Necrotide Blade Arts — shipbound variant used in Wraithwake battles.
• Recursion Anchor Combat — advanced form used by Dranst Spire guardians to control space and memory.

☾ History & Legends

The Undead Wastes were not always dead. During the First Sundering, this sea was a major trade route between North and South. When Breathform war ruptured the Bone Mirror Trenches, recursion and death mingled, cursing the waters. The Bone Choir claimed these seas during the Second Sundering, raising Dranst Spire and binding thousands of shipwrecked souls to their cause. Now, the Sea of Silence is a no-man’s-land — feared even by Bone Choir allies. Those who enter unbidden rarely return. Those who do are never unchanged.

☾ Current Status

The Undead Wastes are not ruled. They are unmapped, unwelcome, and unkind. Recursion breaches rise and collapse like tide-flowers. Bone Choir monks vanish mid-chant. Ghost fleets drift on breath alone.

Dranst Spire is no throne. It is a wound — an open recursion fault above the Hollow. It hums only for those who’ve forgotten their name. Some who approach it vanish. Others return changed — or not at all.

Across the Wastes, sea-lich cults form and dissolve like foam. The Deep is restless. And something is remembering.

☾ Threats & Oddities

• Marrowbound Wraiths — free-floating revenants, hostile to all intruders.
• Recursion bleed — memory echoes looped within Bone Mirror Trenches.
• Cursed tide — anomalies causing ships to drift endlessly within Silent Current.
• Sliver-threaded Bone Choir experiments — unstable and growing in number.
• Whispers of a Marrow Leviathan slumbering beneath Dranst Spire itself.