The Land of 6 Circles / 6 Circles of Escalon are the portal to The Realm of Zermai.
Effects: The order of the sections changes as the travelers encounter them and march through them – check randomly until all have been encountered to move beyond them. It mimics one of the outer planes in places scattered across each land; if you are not already of that alignment you will feel a pull.
As you shake your eyes clear you stand on a vast road. The mile wide road twists onto its side and rises into the air, circling around a column of witch-light… you sense raw power – an anima fountain. The column and road-ribbon stretch into the distance – days of march are laid out before you. It is confusing and the dimensions are alien and strange. There is no sky per se, and no passage of a sun – though there are times when the “sky” is darker but it never gets completely pitch dark. All around you you can feel a pull, trying to tear the island of order apart in a massive whorl of chaos. You sense the ribbon protects the anima fount with a bulwark against the forces of entropy all around you.
Average Perception: >
It wraps 6 times total, creating 6 different “sections”. Each one takes 12 hours to travel through normally as you estimate distances… but its not fully comprehensible what you are seeing, your mind reels under the strain. Colors coalesce and shift, blend and rip apart – outwardly there appears no consistency or pattern.
All travelers will be confronted by The Messenger. This entity appears to all in some form or another. Their mission is to deliver a warning and greeting at once.
“6 lands beyond the Wall of M’Drone there be. Each a guardian with knowledge and powers. To thwart the land’s master is to tame the land. Strange be the denizens, all in pairs set to greet you. Forge ahead to the dwellers of Zermai, beyond the 6 lands, they await your coming. Even now, they see you.” And with that a portal appears in the air 2m away – though the creature seems not to have expected it, it moves to make its way into it.