Northwest of the mountains of Murth (a state in Tarkhon), stretching from the Western Isles coast in the west to the orc state of Hedroscobb in the northeast, lie the Plains of Oblivion. These cursed grasslands cause all who enter to gradually forget everything except their oldest long-term memories and events from the past year. Recent memories, learned skills, and personal identity slip away like water through fingers.
The forgetting has an order, recent before ancient, and that order is the mark of a torn seam of time rather than any ordinary curse. Ninety thousand years ago a Vyanoweir working tore one open beneath this ground, the disaster remembered as the Torn Hour, and the grasslands have run wrong ever since. The ruin at its center, where the inscription was cut, is the Estornum Agnostus the Jae-Kai still walk out to mourn.
The plains are home to Satyrn Gray—the palace of Queen Eranes, an extremely powerful half-titan who lost her love when the plains were cursed and split by ancient magic. Her grief is a far younger thing than the disorder she lives in the middle of. In it, she sought to forget, enchanting her entire palace with powerful spells that hide memories—a working laid deliberately over a ground that already could not hold what happened on it. Though she has succeeded in forgetting her love, she still feels a deep, inexplicable sorrow. She knows she is connected to these plains and cannot bring herself to leave, but she no longer remembers why.
Queen Eranes will handsomely reward anyone who can explain to her what has happened—who she was, what she lost, and why she feels such endless mourning. But the palace's enchantments work against this goal: visitors forget their purpose, the queen forgets the conversations she has, and the truth remains perpetually out of reach. The memory-draining effect of the plains ceases once travelers leave, but the lost memories never return, and the queen remains trapped in her palace of forgotten sorrows.