It begins spontaneously.

In the silent depths of earth and stone of mazing tunnels. Perfectly carved and hollowed out caves made by the ancient creatures that lived here. Some larger than others may have been routes of passage between for those that new the path. Dozens of branching sections mislead the curious and unfortunate.

One hall of the tunnels that ends with a mysterious wall with a large circle carved out in the center of it. Alone the circle has details of melding slated darker stone, each flat and smoothed out in appearance like sea glass.

This waypoint is unknown to be a function of travel between realms, and currently lies vacant. The mysterious place was little of concern to whole ever had the change to see it. As they did not understand the purpose, not really cared.

On this day however, the stone circle began to light up with energy. A spiraling of swirling blue color forms from its center. It size grew until it met the trimmed edges of the dark stone circle. Blue light sparks, brightening the hall chamber, conjuring something into existence. From within emerges a humanoid frame. It’s darkened skin contrasting a silhouette from the portal’s light. The being steps forward, standing roughly as what is known to be the build of Deep Gnome. As the skin was leathery like stone, tough, and muscular, however, carrying unique genetic features that could not be explained. With shaggy white hair, golden shimmering eyes adjust, narrowing into a glaring stare, looking into the depths before them.

This person is {you}.

The sounds of chatter cackle through the dark tunnels of the underworld. Echoing clashes of tools of miners possibly? Hammering out stones and other materials? Your not the only creature that exists in this realm, so you should be aware of what could commonly appear here.

The dead and undying naturally accurse this labyrinth of caves hiding lost secrets, the burial ground of necrotic element adjacent this one. The most normally expect enemies of this nature here, as **** can consume the weakest of creatures in the darkness of this realm if lost and unacknowledgeable exist here, as lost souls, or, desolate slaves of restless warriors that dominate its environment.

Your not the only humanoid creature that choices to hide and survive among them. The drow; a commonly known variant of elves, have an eccentric history and religious belief around their trials with ****. Their accent of survival, is different than other deep earthen varieties. However, in this case, its not a choice chosen by all drow, it merely is an event in their history that changed their bloodlines that possibly gave them immortality.

Culture of cave dwelling, goblin, halfing, are two breeds like gnomes, dwarves and deep orcish appearance does exist. Deep gnomes and Deep Dwarves are just two variants listed that have notable heritages and ties to this realm.

Before you could even think about what possibly creates those noises, the portal blue light disappears. The conjuring magic dissipates, casting out the color to normal eyes.

Though with some possible reason you can see just find without light at all, color in all. Some creatures have developed the ability to see in shades of grey called dark-vision. Others use psionic abilities used for vision, such as echo location from strengths in hearing , and other means of vision.

The golden eyes must be the reasoning to oddly different visual capabilities.