The region formerly called the Worldwound is now known as the Sarkoris Scar, after the jagged, ugly gash of blackened and broken rock that runs across the land where the Abyssal rift once yawned. Now that the rip between worlds has been sealed and the demon lord Deskari slain, the scattered descendants of Sarkoris dare to dream of reclaiming their ancestral land (some joining the Reclaimers), though the task that looms before them is forbidding. Despite Deskari's death and the scattering of his host, the northlands remain fraught with threats. Although the sealing of the Worldwound cut off the demons’ never-ending reinforcements, it did not kill those fiends already present or purify the blight pervading the landscape. Most of the Mendevian Crusade’s might has been redirected to face Tar-Baphon (a powerful lich king in the Eye of Dread) far to the south, and the holy crusaders who remain are no longer as numerous or as vigilant as they once were.