The Blighted Badlands
The Wastelands
Barren rock, abandoned settlements, dry mines, hard weather, strange mirages, and ghost towns where fragments of the past sometimes repeat.
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REGIONS OF THE WICKED WEST
A Continent Under Pressure
Setting canon treats geography as history made visible. The East, South, and western frontier do not express supernatural pressure in the same way because they did not arrive at the present through the same events.
Eastern Seaboard
Arkham, Boston, New York, old institutions, ports, wealth, universities, and deeply layered supernatural history.
Southern Shadows
The unfinished aftermath of slavery, war, Reconstruction, river country, battlefields, and communities living with what history left behind.
Western Frontiers
Gold, rail, migration, boomtowns, vast distance, thin institutional reach, and fast-growing supernatural pressure.
The Darkened Coast
Pacific Northwest
Storm-lashed coastline, black cliffs, deep forests, fog, isolated settlements, phantom lights, and stories carried inland from the sea.
The Eerie Appalachians
Mountain Country
Old hollows, isolated communities, mine country, inherited customs, and mountain roads where distance and time do not always agree.
The Forsaken Frontier
Southwest
Mesas, canyons, missions, mining routes, long distances, desert heat, and places whose supernatural history predates the people now crossing them.
The Ghostly Northeast
Eastern Seaboard
Colonial towns, crowded ports, universities, old families, graveyards, civic institutions, and supernatural systems with generations of history behind them.
The Haunted Heartland
The Dark Plains
Rail lines, farms, open prairie, isolated communities, enormous distances, and local warnings preserved by the people who work the land.
The Shadowed Sierras
The Lost Peaks
Gold country, mountain settlements, abandoned claims, difficult passes, and the lingering consequences of the rush that transformed the West.
The Southern Shadows
Reconstruction South
Riverlands, swamps, battlefields, plantations, ports, communities rebuilding after war, and supernatural consequences rooted in generations of violence and unfinished history.