Tales: The Underthere

Once, a mighty monster lord thought to itself: "I want my minions to be strong and healthly, but the local warriors and heroes threaten my people time and time again. I must construct a dungeon worthy of my minions and their worship!" And thus he began construction.

Over the many months, the earth kept rumbling as the dungeon expanded, and the heroes and warriors of the people gathered to find out what was going on. They finally found the entrance to the dungeon and ventured forth into it.

After many more months of travel inside the dungeons, the heroes had slaughtered their way through the beings inside, but still hadn't found either the monster lord or the exit, resulting in them having to eat whatever monsters they kill, and drink the moisture from the dank walls.

Finally they found the monster lord while it was constructing yet another tunnel, and they quickly offed him as he was unprepared. The lord was not done living yet though, and through sheer determination seeped into the ground and became part of it. Over time, the monster lord's will would create a powerful phylactery to contain it.

The many heroes and warriors could not find their way back out of this monstrous labyrinth, and soon perished in its many chambers. The townspeople, who haven't heard from their heroes in months, had grown scared once more and whent to the high wizards tower, to ask for guidance. The wizard issued a "collapse dungeon" scroll, a spell type he had been working on ever since he found out that the heroes were inside a monster lair.

The towns people used the scroll outside the dungeon entrance and collapsed it, sealing the fate of everything inside. Yet, the phylactery of the monster lord was still there.

Over the years, the tale of the dungeon disappeared from the ears of men, but the dungeon still grew by the will of the monster lord. Hundreds of years whent by before another entrance was found, the locals calling this new dungeon"The Underthere", based on its sudden appearance, and their slow wit.

In time, The Underthere had evolved into taking control of the entire planet, making the entire world one giant dungeon. The massive magickal energies that started appearing around it also attracted loads of monsters, slaughtering the locals living on the planet, freeing it up for the monsters to live in.

Still to this day, powerful heroes travel to The Underthere to prove themselves in the dungeons, hoping to one day get to the core and defeat the monster lord once and for all.

You know, for the sake of being able to tell the story, and also the loot!

~Old Drunk Man met in a tavern, Planet Underthere.