Nekra Mael
The Olderdark
Nekra Mael appears in old histories, religious warnings and everyday curses. Commonly called the Olderdark, it is a realm of dangerous beings and vast arcane power whose influence reaches into Tidefall.
Scholars study its connection to the Storm. Others encounter it through objects and places that have remained undisturbed for centuries.
Drawing on Its Power
Every magical tradition on Tidefall draws from the Olderdark. Maelweavers work through words, altering thoughts and perceptions. Dwarven Lodentheurgy binds power into crystals, weapons and machines. Nekramancers reach directly into the realm, attempting to summon and command what they find there.
Such knowledge survives in guarded workshops, forbidden texts and ruins whose makers understood far more than those exploring them today.
The Cost of Magic
A Maelweaver risks losing pieces of their own reality while changing someone else’s. A flaw in a construct can tear open a rift or let something take control of it. Nekramancers face the greatest danger: the beings they attempt to bind can turn upon them first.