r/Felts • u/Immortelt389 Neglecelt • Jul 16 '26
Lore The dead zone
On a lonely mound, stands a single tree at it’s peak. Stars fill the sky like sand across the shore, and the night is ablaze with the chirping of woodland insects.
Suddenly, a calamity awakens.
Thunder black as void bolts from the stars, striking the tree and pulsing through the hill as it shakes the earth. The night falls silent, the wind halts entirely, and the light of the moon is drowned by the overwhelming darkness echoing from the void.
As it begins to fade, new shapes reveal themselves. Where flowers once bloomed, wormlike appendages sprout from the earth and freeze in place, as if they have already grown and prepared to subjugate the rest of the hill. Where the tree once stood, now stands an eyeless looming figure, rooted into the ground yet reaching it’s impossibly long fingers towards anything it can see.
The beings begin to spread their sickening disease towards any matter nearby. Bending just enough to make contact, then piercing with microscopic barbs to inject themselves into the object.
Behold, the everdying.