Chaos brings life to a land, gives it the spark needed for things to thrive. However, it can reach a point where it is more cancerous than life giving. When things are extremely chaotic purple roots will emerge from the land. Except they aren’t roots, they’re veins. These veins branch out and cover all the land. A fleshy mass grows from these veins and soon everything is coated in a vast sea of flesh. If chaos continues to thrive than crude hearts and other organs will develop. Fleshy Aberrations slowly rise out of the sea of Crimson Lichen and start roaming the land, often striking out at anything they come across.

Crimson Lichen is often avoided like the plague, the chaos bleeds into the minds of any who wander within it. The Aberrations are very dangerous and extremely hard to kill. The Crimson Lichen wraps itself around anything it touches, even a night’s sleep is enough for a passing traveler to be ensnared in a web of veins.

Settlements caught up in the spread of this Red Sea are often abandoned or descend into dens of madness. Mages can wield the mad flesh to their advantage. They can leach off the chaos to fuel their magic but it often drives them mad.

Source for top image, Somadjinn, http://somadjinn.deviantart.com/art/Ruby-Moss-Forest-611268425