The Numen of Blood is one of the few Demi-Lah born after the War of Change and quite possibly the one with the largest impact upon the Shattered World. His very creation tore through the lands of Sadryn, completely altering it to fit his revolting image, a mass of flesh, blood and bone that writhes beneath the feet of its inhabitants. He resides in the Spire of the Newborn, named after his other moniker – the Newborn, a place where his incomplete form is still incubating by absorbing nutrients from the land as well as its denizens.

The creation of this deity is an anomaly in every possible way, as it is the result of an erroneous ritual of ressurection conducted by the people of Dela-Lah in desparation. As Sadryn’s front was the one that suffered the heaviest losses during the Great War, the survivors attempted to raise their dead as a last resort. They gathered all the bodies they could, those killed in battle and those already dead and burried long ago, placing them atop the holy tower’s stone plateau. But the effort was far too great for the meager amount of sorcerers that were willing to attempt such a monumental task and as the incantation began it quickly began burning the casters’ lives as fuel. Yet this still wasn’t nearly enough and as the mages fell one by one, drained of all their blood which congealed in the center of the mass of corpses, the magic ravenously increased the scope of what it devoured. Never truly ending, the ritual fused the cadavers and most importantly, their fragments into a monstrosity the likes of which were never seen before, an unfinished Demi-Lah stood where they were once nurtured by the Cycle’s machinations.

A bloody rain fell the morning of his birth, as a crimson Sun arose in the sky signaling the monumental shift for the entire continent. The abomination made from mortal bodies unleashed a curse upon the living inside the holy city, turning them into the Drahyn, an entire specie whose fragments are eternally bound to Mislav who slowly consumes them in order to finish the process of his birth. They waste away from the moment they are born, as the tithe the Demi-Lah takes is paid in blood. The only way to stave this off is to consume the vitality of others through acts of cannibalism, most notably consuming the heart and blood of other mortals, directly feeding their twisted deity with every morsel eaten. Likewise to how he corrupted the living, he bent the land to his will turning the soil into squirming flesh and jutting bone. Sadryn, which was broken by the battles with Oblivion connected its broken pieces back together joined by thick tendons spanning miles. Rivers were quickly replaced by sanguine liquid, as everything that was protected by the World’s Edge Pillars became a spitting image of the Demi-Lah. Massive veins sprout from the Numen, all across these fleshy plains and forests of bone, boring into the earth to feed upon the scraps of nutrition found within the ground. The endemic wildlife was also not spared of this shift, creating an environment which is amongst the harshest on the entire Shattered World.