Climb the Grim Tower

Atop the tower the wizards' crystal prison contained the Atropal all too well, it could not escape but neither could it be moved and the rotting curse poisoned the land for a generation.

“A wizard did it. Just put a sign up outside of every arcane disaster from now on- nine times out of ten it’s right.” - Ida Holly

Meddling is the great strength of wizards, tinkering on the fringes of the powers of the universe. Mostly their magic is cosmically harmless. But every era or so some mage gets ambitious. An attempt to create a Divine being by a mortal is doomed to failure- but that attempt will always come at a cost. For the case of the grim tower it was the lives of an entire civilization for two generations.

To the wizards credit the being was summoned and created. But it contained none of what makes a creature “alive” in any sense. Devoid of purpose it quickly became an atropal. The last act of the mage was sealing it in a prison it could not escape. Sealing the undead unborn god atop the tower where corruption ate away at everything for miles around.