The Marble Palace

After trekking through the desert the characters come across the ancient ruins of the Marble Palace. Even in its ruined state, the structure is beautiful, marred only by the eerie absence of life. After spending a few moments here, characters begin to feel a sense of gloom and mortality. There is a powerful Magic aura of 7, and it is aligned with the emotion of despair. This emotional alignment does not affect those with The Gift or another Magic-realmbased ability, but all others acquire the Personality Trait of Despair at a score of +3. They feel a sense of transience and mortality and are saddened by the knowledge that all things eventually come to an end and that a final fate awaits them. If they adhere to a Divine faith, they may take small solace in the fact that God is eternal.

A Magic regio lies inside the ruined Marble Palace, readily accessible as the characters draw nearer due to the mag-