Editing Chernoggar (section)

==The Shrapnels==
Like all dominions within the [[Astral Sea]], Chernoggar is surrounded by Border Isles - comparatively smaller mini-worlds that lie within its color veil, but which are not officially part of the dominion proper; this is the dumping ground for Outsiders, those souls who are condemned to never complete the transformation into Exalted and thus never set foot in the plane of their deities. Owing to the violent nature of Chernoggar, the Shrapnels are a mirror of that violence; the various islands sporadically slam into each other, resulting in them randomly fusing, sundering, or ricocheting, making it impossible to keep track of how many individual islands there are.

The Shrapnels are a gathering point for reavers, pirates and mercenaries, as well as all manner of monsters. Warlords come and go here, as if the plane itself rejects attempts by any one faction to grow too large; inevitably, a rising warlord is destroyed or sees his forces splinter - either to serve rivals from within his own ranks, or just out of fear of the ever-mounting attacks by planar predators. Racially, it's one of the biggest melting pots in the Astral Sea; outsiders of all species, from [[orc]]s and [[goblinoid]]s to [[demihuman|more conventional fare]] rub shoulders with renegade [[angel]]s, rogue [[devil]]s, [[bladeling]]s and [[githyanki]]. Life here is tough; the only law is the law of the strong, enforced with blade or spell. Yet, much like Chernoggar itself, life flourishes here despite the strife, with forests and rivers springing up to recolonize each island as swiftly as it is damaged in the churning maelstrom.

A handful of Shrapnels have lasted long enough to earn a particular infamy amongst mappers of the Astral Sea:

The '''Isle of Rage''' is a blazing whirlwind of destruction, a volcanic-bedecked, flame-spewing meteorite that whirls quickly and erratically around Chernoggar's orbit, infested with blood-crazed fiery [[elemental]]s and [[archon]]s that seek to annihilate whatever comes near. It is said that the Isle marks the spot where Bane slew his brother, Tuern, and that the fiery god's heart still lies buried at the center of the Isle, which is why it sprang free when Nishrek slammed into Chernoggar so long ago.

'''Reaver's Haven''' is an island with particularly abundant veins of iron ore, which has made it a beacon for pirates, freebooters and mercenaries of all stripes, who carve out their fiefdoms amidst the readily-fortified caverns and hills.

The '''Gnashing Teeth''' are a cluster of three islands that always maintain a close orbit, constantly smashing into each other. [[Githyanki]] and [[bladeling]]s fight for dominance here, seeking to capture the mighty defenses left from when the Teeth were a single island, fortified by the battlesworn of Bane.

'''Rimeval''' is an enormous mass of glaciers locked under an eternal blizzard. But, concealed within its icy depths are a god's ransom of astral diamonds, and strange treasures lost since time began. Rimeval is a place where anything that has cursed to be lost eventually comes to rest, and thus it draws a steady stream of desperate or fool-hardy [[adventurer]]s.

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