Editing Skylands (section)

== The Maelstrom ==
"Imperial scholars have always theorised what happens to objects that fall from the sky.
We have known of The Mist for decades now, a region of crippling cold and colossal glacial bergs, populated only by frigid silence and the infinite stillness of the Mist itself.

It is believed that debris falls deep into the Mists until it reaches a never ending Maelstrom far beyond the reach of any mortal, a hellish realm drenched in its own eternal murky twilight.
A place of whirling dust storms, boulders constantly colliding and crumbling apart, unending lighting strikes and great vortexes of molten magma.
This place is populated by only by nightmarish creatures, constantly fighting for survival and eking out a living(if it can be called that) in the swirling chaos, even these terrible creates are nothing more than food for the horrifying beasts that lurk in the Maelstrom who are in turn preyed upon by truly terrifying and incomprehensible entities.
After millennia a fragment of matter in the Maelstrom may coalesce and condense to form a new island that gradually drifts back to the sky as part of an unending cycle.
I can say with certainty that no man has ever visited the Maelstrom, for the journey itself is certain death and even if he was to make it safely, being in the presence of the Maelstrom for even the briefest moment is suicide.
The only proof that this place even exists is from a precious few artefacts ( the most well know of which is the Tablet of Shl'akhar, know to drive men who view it mad) and carvings seen on some of the most ancient islands, usually in long abandoned temples and crypts.
These sites are the focus of great interest for the Empires scholars due to their seemingly impossible age and being the apparent site of bloody rituals and horrific sacrifices."

''Imperial Historian Marcus Verus, 22nd year  of Cato Junius' rule''