Post by Sparda on Oct 30, 2012 13:25:49 GMT -6
Spoken of in the most hushed and fearful whispers on the mainland, the gargantuan island of Zorteth lies a mere twenty miles off Elim’s northeast coast. Bitterly cold and enshrouded in a perpetual veil of fog, this gigantic island is actually a hollow sphere of rock, half-sunken into the ocean and firmly anchored to the sea floor. A single narrow strait serves as the only entrance by sea, leading into a looping canal with a harbour at its far end. The sphere’s inner walls are populated with shelves and stalactites of rock, hollowed out and interconnected to form a complex of buildings many times the size of any of Genesis’ largest cities. This unnatural island serves one purpose – a prison for those Elimites or foreign Genesians who are so depraved, so violent, and so destructive that their gods have no choice but to segregate them in a place that will become their tomb.
Zorteth has existed almost since the Creator instated the current gods of Elim. When they saw a need for a prison to house their most beastly criminals, those who had committed unforgivable horrors and blasphemies, they convened to create the imposing island of Zorteth off the coast of the continent. They then selected five of their most faithful and dependable subjects, elevated them to demi-godhood and tasked them with the governance of this prison. At first, they retained their perfectly human appearances, but the corruptive influence of Mhaor Palu’s entropic power has shaped them into fiendish monsters with the passing of millennia.
Each of the five fulfils a specific role in the iron-fisted rule of the Zorteth prison. They are Narav, the Harbinger, who commands the prison’s massive transport ferry and watches over the entry strait; Dalgar, the Detainer, who keeps order from the shadows with her legion of wardens; Kirix, the Tormentor, master of the vast complex’s torture chambers; Goltur, the Headsman, who oversees the swift and brutal punishment of disobedience; and Ril’zhel, the Sentinel, collaborating with Narav and Dalgar as the first line of defence against intrusion and assault from without.
