OOC: I was hoping it would be year 125 or something when i woke up, but nope, its year 142. well thats what sleep does for you. i was really hoping i wouldn't have to take a complex action for this one, also so that i could stop babysitting the Aetherials but w/e. I'll make it work
YEAR 142.2
The Aetherials were right in their choice of location.
For 20 years no one of significance has discovered the Aetherial incursion, those who did discover it never made it back and were added to the growing number of mutated wildlife of the chaos lands. Thus the corruption spewing from the Chaos rift was allowed to spread and fester unchecked.
The intensifying chaos corrupted and twisted the land, the animals and even the very air itself as it spread. If one were to enter the Chaos lands now, they'd see a red, mutated hellscape, and even an occasional flash of red lightning.
The Aetherials have not simply been sitting around either, they've been fortifying their new land. Tall, twisted spires of crystallized chaos energy, with "branches" growing off at seemingly random angles and locations now dot the landscape of the chaos lands.
For the last 20 years, the Aetherials have been content to stay in the chaos lands, merely biding their time, but who knows how long that will last or what insidious plans they're making.