User:Zone Descriptions Project/The Bloodied Quarry

In the mountains north of the Dreadlands lies the dreaded Bloodied Quarry, the empires only source of yclistinite. This substance is very valuable, it enhances the capacities of certain types of magic by a lot. Unfortunately, prolonged exposure to yclistinite drives an individual mad. This led the Kaezulians to treating slaves as a renewable resource, even more then anywhere else in the empire - rarely a slave survives more then a few months here.

Slave mortality and rumors about even worse things - rocks that actually fight back when being mined, gruesome experiments - have led to more then just one runaway slave, and quite a few slaves decide to suicide when they are threatened to be sold to the quarry.