Phantom Plains
"One will sometimes hear a pilgrim to the Phantom Plains make the claim of some manner of transcendent or divine experience. It's easy to write these people off as loonies or liars, and I often do. But having been to the Plains, as far in as one of my physique could go that is, I find myself having to agree with the loons and the liars. Something beyond the whims of gravity are at work there." - from the memoirs of Lewin Von Treet, Vault: the Land of Stuff and Things
Description
Founded: ???
Largely believed to be a product of the Constellation Wars, the Phantom Plains existed before any settlement in Core Vandal. The obvious characteristics of the Phantom Plains are what earned it the name: floating crystalline structures, organic in nature, bob endlessly in the air, moving throughout the Plains. Trees will often uproot to place themselves elsewhere, and the rock itself shifts randomly. No one has ever made residence there for these reasons, and many who simply wander through the plains meet their end due to a fast moving crystal or a tree descending from the sky where they were standing.
It is a land in constant motion, and that motion becomes more drastic the closer one travels to the center. So much so that no living creature has traveled to the center of the Phantom Plains and returned to tell the tale. Many try, and they try frequently. Because the other quality of the Phantom Plains is the overbearing feeling of being watched. Not by a creature in the night, but by some higher power. Many faithless who travel there confess they could not help but believe something godlike resides in the Plains.
Whether or not this is true, it has prompted pilgrimages from around Vault, each person believing perhaps they have what it takes to make it to the center. To date, no one has succeeded and most have died. Guides will take travelers along well worn paths to avoid the worst of the gravitational fluxes, knowing the tricks of what to avoid and when. To go in without a guide is to invite disaster.