Editing Dyed Lands

'''The Dyed Lands of Seequal''', or just '''Dyed Lands''', is a [[Death Zones|Death Zone]]<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2021/04/25/8-18-h/ Chapter 8.18 H]</ref> located to the lower southwest of [[Baleros]].<ref name=":9.22">[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/10/30/9-22-gn/ Chapter 9.22 GN]</ref>

==Overview ==
Before they were come to be known as the Dyed Lands, it was formerly a [[Lizardfolk]] nation known as '''Seequal'''. It had been a prosperous nation, but during the Selphid Empire, the Lizardfolk nation had come under attack. Rather than surrender, their greatest [Mages] had attempted to cast an experimental spell as armies marched on their capital. The result was a magical devastation for hundreds of miles. Both army and nation had been wiped out, but the rampant magic had provoked the natural wildlife to adapt or die. And so—The Dyed Lands had come into existence. 

Thousands of years later, it was, like the [[Bloodfields]], an encroaching land on the ‘normal’ jungles and animals. A wild place, full of highly-charged magical plants and animals. A place of wonder. And of course, terrible danger. The kind that had eaten entire armies who had tried to burn the Dyed Lands and establish control. Now, only a few people made their homes there. [Hunters] and [Alchemists] and [Gatherers], looking for new and rare ingredients, as there was a fortune to be made if you had the wits or courage.

But most kept far from the Dyed Lands. It was a kind of death. If you weren’t eaten by the swarms of flying midges who would devour you piece by piece, or ran afoul of one of the giant apex predators, like the ''teleporting cavernous maws'' or stumbled into a field of plants whose poison no [Healer] had ever seen before.<ref name=":0">[https://wanderinginn.com/2020/05/10/7-22-d/ Chapter 7.22 D]</ref> Furthermore, the monsters of the Dyed Lands do not prey on their own colour.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2023/03/12/9-40-gg/ Chapter 9.40 GG]</ref>

Thus the strange land of contaminated magic and colors, a place for [Explorers] and true adventurers, akin to the Bloodfields, had always been dangerous, but contained. Growing, but watched. That was until the [[Timewalker]] had sensed the potential in the Dyed Lands and stepped onto it from the [[Kasignel|Land of the Dead]], and ate away the time, leaving only the future. Thus the Dyed Lands, with everything inside it, were sped up in time to 600 years of change.<ref name=":2">[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/04/17/8-80/ Chapter 8.80]</ref> This event also turned the Dyed Lands into a new Great Forest, suitable for growing a World Tree and germinating a Dryad.<ref>{{VERef|The Grove – Interlude}}</ref>

As of now the Dyed Lands have overwhelmed their old area, and they’re expanding. Armies are forming a containment zone.<ref name=":3">[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/06/03/9-00/ Chapter 9.00]</ref>

==Geography==
The Dyed Lands come in colors, with each Color Zones having deferent wildlife and plants.<ref name=":0" />

===Known Color Zones:===
====Chalklands====
Chalklands,<ref name=":0" /> also known as chalk-white zone,<ref name=":1">[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/03/27/8-76-b/ Chapter 8.76 B]</ref> or chalk ghostlands of white oblivion.<ref name=":2" /> Is located to the West of the Dyed Lands.<ref name=":0" /> Monsters from there are known for using invisibility.<ref name=":4">[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/08/30/9-12/ Chapter 9.12]</ref>

====Blue Oblivion====
Dangerous as you need to be at lest Level 40 before attempting to enter it. Located at the in interior of the Dyed Lands.<ref name=":0" />

==== Red Zone / Crimson Blend====
The ‘Red Zone’, or the Crimson Blend as it was known, is a red jungle that is compared to the Bloodfields. It was dense and within a few feet you would lose all sense of direction. A hell of confusion. There are camouflaged plants that would attack you, and predators large and small. You wouldn’t even be able to see your blood among all the colors. Is located at the edge (North, South or East) of the Dyed Lands.<ref name=":0" />

====Shining Zone====
The shining zone is—bright. There Monsters hunt by blinding each other, and the plants make it hard to navigate. Located next to the Chalklands.<ref name=":0" />

==== ??? / Yellow ====

==== ??? / Green ====
This zone has an overwhelming number of flying parasitic serpentine monsters, which will fuse with and take control of anything alive. They will even "steal" other colors to bolster their ranks.<ref name=":5">{{VERef|10.43 RNG (Pt. 1)}}</ref>

==== ??? / Black ====

==== ??? / Brown ====

==== ??? / Purple ====

==Locations==

*[[Fraerlings]]' Settlements (x2)<ref name=":2" />
**Torteth / Torteth of Colors - Located on the cutting edge.<ref name=":1" /> (''Status Unknown'')
** ??? (''Status Unknown'')

==Creatures==
many of the monsters in the Dyed Lands are invisible or camouflaged.

===List of Known Creatures:===

*Charging Leomouth - Teleporting cavernous maws. Giant Apex Predators.<ref name=":0" />
*Eatswarms - Swarms of flying midges who would devour you piece by piece.<ref name=":0" />
*Parasite Serpents<ref name=":5" />
*Ske-eel<ref name=":0" />
*[[Three-Headed Grabghast|Three-Headed Grabghasts]]
* ??? - Monster the size of a hill.<ref name=":0" />
* ??? - Poisonous snake-thing.<ref name=":1" />
* ??? - Monster the size of a young Dragon, with lots of teeth.<ref name=":2" />
* ??? - Some kind of elk that has hair that is used as a rare alchemical reagent.<ref name=":3" />
* ??? - Pale white stalking beasts, often invisible, that fight in skirmishing tribes.<ref name=":4" />
*??? - Bright red flower plant-based monsters, using paralytic or allergen-based pollen storms.<ref name=":4" />
*??? - Green-type monsters that explode and spread a nasty ichor everywhere.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/10/12/9-20/ Chapter 9.20]</ref>
*??? - Twenty feet long serpent that is virtually invulnerable to ranged fire, but can be harmed in close-quarters fighting.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2023/01/29/9-34/ Chapter 9.34]</ref>

==[[Plants]]==

===List of Known Plants:===

* ??? - Plants whose poison no [Healer] had ever seen before.<ref name=":0" />
* ??? - Red camouflaged plants that would attack you.<ref name=":0" />

==Trivia==

*[[Saliss Oliwing|Saliss]] had bought the immortal Ske-eel’s liquid, that is found in the Dyed Lands, at a premium for his potions.<ref name=":0" />
*In the past [[Gnolls]] had explored the Dyed Lands with Lizardfolk.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/interlude-satar-revised/ Interlude – Satar]</ref>
*Wasting events in Selphids decrease the closer they get to the origin point.<ref name=":9.22" />
*It is called the Land of Colors by the apes of Baleros.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2023/06/04/interlude-trade-and-travel/ Interlude - Trade and Travel]</ref>

==References==
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