Location: The Gray Wastes
Rumors
- The Gray Wastes are bleak beyond description, draining hope and color from all who pass through.
- Bone-trees and silent petitioners stand there as reminders of what waits after death and judgment.
What is Known
- The Gray Wastes are a barren lower-plane landscape reached by descending the Infinite Staircase.
- The land is gray, bleak, and lined with giant bone-like trees.
- The River Styx passes through it.
- The city of Pluton lies along the river there as a place of judgment and waiting.
- The party passed through the Gray Wastes by ferry while seeking Loki and Idunn.
History
- The party emerged into the Gray Wastes during their descent into the lower planes.
- There they boarded a ferry on the River Styx and traveled past Pluton before continuing on toward Carceri.
People
Loose Threads
- What powers rule the Gray Wastes?
- What do the silent figures on the shore truly see when they watch the living pass by?
- How does judgment in Pluton connect to the wider afterlives of the dead?