Age of Conan: Rise of the Godslayer Kara Korum Preview
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From the crater runs a river of a tainted fluid, like pus coming out of a picked scab. A stream runs from the river into the Valley of Giants, into a small lake there. Once it was an oasis of fresh water, but now it is tainted as well. The oasis still has trees and some wildlife, but it has changed. It has grown. In vegetation it is known as gigantism, but in this valley it has taken off and become truly bizarre and frightening, yet wondrous. Trees big as mountains, beasts so enormous they would give even Conan pause.
Trees, bushes and other forms of vegetation that are found in this environment are enormous many times bigger than normal. There is also something unnerving about them. That branch, doesn't it look like a human arm reaching out from the trunk? Doesn't that stump have the features of a grinning mouth?
The beasts are enormous too. Meeting one instills a sense of dread, battling one is a furious contest where the prize is your life. The valley also inspires a sense of wonder, through amazing and weird trees, through fantastic creatures and through the contrast of harsh desert meeting beautiful oasis.
