World
The Forge The Forge is not a place built by hands. It is a wound in the world, a vast subterranean labyrinth that predates every civilization that has risen and fallen above it. Its walls are stone and miasma-glass, its corridors lit by veins of bioluminescent ore and the cold light of things that should not glow.
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World
The Miasma The miasma is the Forge's immune system. A thick, purple-black vapor that permeates the deeper floors, it corrupts organic matter, warps creatures, and erodes the will of those who breathe it too long. Grimms are partially resistant. The bargain that created them includes a tolerance for miasma that normal humans do not possess.
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People
The Grimms A Grimm is someone who made a bargain with the Forge. The exact nature of the bargain varies. The Forge does not communicate in words, but the result is consistent: enhanced physical capability, partial miasma resistance, and a mark that cannot be removed. The mark glows faintly in the dark. It is how you know.
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Organizations
The Grimm Extraction Guild The guild was founded by a woman named Voss, who was the first Grimm to survive a floor-ten extraction. She returned with enough rare materials to fund a private army, and she used that army to negotiate exclusive extraction rights from the surface governments who technically owned the land above the Forge.
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Mysteries
The Bargain No Grimm remembers making the bargain. They remember the circumstances: the desperation, the darkness, the moment before. Then they remember waking up with the mark. What happened in between is a gap that no amount of questioning fills.
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