Sorrow Harvester

The Deep is a vast subterranean realm that sprawls beneath the Splinterlands. Shrouded in mystery and largely unmapped, its labyrinth of tunnels and caverns is believed to stretch beneath even the Colossus Ocean and the distant waters of the Splinter Sea and Primordic Seas.

Within the Deep lies Shadowcomb, a sprawl of cathedral-like chambers and winding passageways beneath the Jagtooth Mountains and Broken Lands. In its enormous caverns, some stretching over twenty kilometers, subterranean forests thrive using chemosynthesis, bathed in the twilight glow of bioluminescent algae and fungi.

In these forests stands the Kingdom of Shadowcomb, a dark elven matriarchal monarchy ruled by a queen whose word is absolute. Little is known of her governance. Few are permitted to travel to the surface. But among those she sends are the sorrow harvesters.

They move among the surface folk with purpose, but without pity. They seek the broken, the grieving, the angry. A mother mourning her child. A widower clinging to ghosts of the past. A lover hollowed by loss. Sorrow harvesters don’t cause pain. They deepen it. They feed on it. And when their work is done, all that remains is wreckage. Why the queen sends them is anyone’s guess. No one dares ask.