The Middle Dark

The Middledark lies between 3 and 10 miles beneath the surface of Dephiron. Most larger cities of drow and duergar (the more evil version of dwarves). Other inhabitants are some of the younger aboleths, other odd creatures only found in the Underdark, and some Mind Flayer outposts that are scattered throughout this level as well. No alliance is permanent in the Middle dark with the exception of the agreement should the sealed ones be unsealed however the Mind Flayers are not apart of this agreement. Some communities maintain wary trading partnerships with others, but it is understood that if one party ever grows stronger than the other, the terms of the partnership will change perhaps drastically. Even in the most open of Middledark cities, newcomers can expect to be challenged (physically of otherwise) unless they make a display of power upon entry.

Settled communities in the Middledark commonly send trade caravans mainly to the Upperdark but sometimes the surface for where the products could be held in a trade center. More commonly then caravans are raiding parties mainly to go up on the surface and raid the cities for resources. Visitors from the surface are rare and tend to be viewed as potential slaves or food. Caravan travel brings mostly luxuries, and staples must be grown locally.

There are more sealed entities here than the Upper dark as these range from mysterious entities, to evil mages, forgotten gods, to even some of the gods lesser and even some higher gods. Many of these beings should they escape can cause mass amounts of destruction on the world especially if it were to be an entity on par with the higher gods or a higher god that was sealed. Many of the middle dark inhabitants were scared of the day that would come that these things will be released in the world as many of the inhabitants would be killed or worse as they are too far from the surface.

Cosmic Invasion Effects
Following the Cosmic invasion many of those inhabitants excluding the Mind flayer for some odd unknown reason were caught up in many rifts that unsealed some of these entities resulting in the death of many of these inhabitants as well as another affect for those unlucky enough. Those that supposedly perished unfortunately couldn't pass on nor become undead as their spirit and their body were between realities due to the effects of the rifts that opened. The bodies were left in empty husks while the spirit was fractured between the different realities. The middle dark became a relatively strange place as for many of these odd hallucinations began to appear. These are some fragments of the memories of those who are stuck between realities. These hallucinations are quite powerful as some even bring others to a different reality for a brief moment. These hallucinations are mainly the greatest fears or other nightmarish visions that these fractured people have experienced.