Schattenmeer

The Schattenmeer, a vast and storm-tossed lake, dominates the landscape with its dark and foreboding presence. Its waters are eerily cold and black, reflecting the stormy skies above with a menacing sheen. Despite being a freshwater lake, its depths hold a strange, unnatural quality, as though tainted by the cursed shard of the Schattenspiegel hidden within. The lake is a graveyard of mariners and vessels, its floor scattered with the wreckage of ships and the bones of those who sought to tame its turbulent surface. Sudden tempests often rise without warning, lashing its waters into chaotic fury, while the mist that clings to its shores seems alive, whispering secrets to those who dare to wander too close. The Schattenmeer is no mere body of water—it is an extension of the Von Schattenmeer dynasty’s dark will, a sentient force that guards its secrets jealously. Its mirrored surface reveals not just one’s reflection but distorted, haunting visions of otherworldly horrors and drowned souls trapped beneath. To the people of Totenhafen, the Schattenmeer is both a source of dread and the cradle of the dynasty’s power, a lake that does not forgive those who underestimate its curse.