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Remnants of Corruption
Threat · Not a Faction · Not Yet
Once a diffuse leakage. Now, since the Nine Dungeons erupted, something that has structure above the field level.
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At a Glance

Character
No unified leadership at the field level, corrupted creatures act on hunger, not orders. But above the field level, there is structure: the Nine Generals of Corruption, each commanding one of the Nine Dungeons.
Origin
The Corrupted God was bound in 2135 MR but not destroyed. Spawn still emerge from deep places.
2524 MR, the eruption
Eight years ago, the Nine Dungeons erupted from the earth, disgorging the first great corruption armies of the modern age. The kingdoms broke that first wave and sealed the main entrances. Smaller leakage continues.
One general fallen
The Ash-Binder was slain by a united kingdom-and-adventurer campaign. His lair remains dangerous. Eight Generals remain.
The counter-pressure
The Seven Wardstones, all within Myrkono, anchor the chains that keep the Corrupted God bound. While they hold, he stays sealed. See The Binding →
Bound by Gods' Law?
No. The Corrupted God predates the Gods' Law and was never party to it. The Wardstones are a separate, mortal-and-Araphel-led containment.
Tracked by
The Adventurers' Guild maintains a standing research operation to understand and predict emergence patterns, work that has shifted, in eight short years, from quest-running to siege management.
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Origin · the long leak

The Corrupted God was bound in 2135 MR, not destroyed. The binding holds him beneath the earth, anchored by the Seven Wardstones forged at the close of the Age of Corruption, but it does not silence him. His spawn still emerge from deep places. Certain ruins, certain mining operations that go too deep, certain sealed Elden sites, all carry risk of emergence.

For four centuries the leakage was the whole story. Frequency dropped, never reached zero. Border villages knew the signs; the Guild knew the protocols; the work was contained and almost routine.

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2524 MR · the eruption of the Nine Dungeons

Eight years ago, the routine ended. Nine colossal subterranean fortresses tore open pathways into the mortal world overnight. From them came the first great corruption armies in four centuries, led not by mindless hunger but by purpose. The dungeons had commanders.

The kingdoms united. Adventurer companies and militias rallied. After bloody campaigns the first wave was broken and the dungeons' main entrances sealed with wards, stone, and sacrifice. But sealing the gates did not end the threat. Corruption now finds its way upward through smaller caverns and tunnel networks that lace the land. Entire caravans have vanished into web-choked gullies. Border towns plague-rot from below. The Guild's research operation now spends more time on siege management than on emergence prediction.

Some researchers believe the Corrupted God is healing, that the eruption was the binding's first major fracture, and others will follow. Others believe the eruption was something else: a probe, a test, or a deliberate provocation by something inside the binding that has finally found a way to push.

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The Nine Generals · structure above the field

Each of the Nine Dungeons was commanded by one of the Nine Generals of Corruption: corruption-lords wrought from the bound god's power, originally mortal cultists, clerics, beasts, or nameless horrors from deep places, each chosen and remade into a vessel of his will. Unlike their master, the Nine can be fought and slain.

One has fallen, the Ash-Binder, a corrupted elemental beast who dwelt in a volcanic furnace. His defeat is celebrated across the kingdoms as proof that the Nine can fall. Eight remain.

The other eight: the Vermin Queen (located, Itzasoa, the Hollow of Ten Thousand Threads), the Rot-Tyrant, the Blight-Seer, the Flesh-Sculptor, the Whisperer in Dreams, the Maw Serpent (located, north pack-ice of Baerfrost, Vindul), the False Saint, and the Root-Twister. Each commands a sealed dungeon, a corrupted legion, and a piece of the bound god's power made flesh.

For more info read: The Binding →

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