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Corpse Land
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When a great battle, massacre, or terrible cataclysm occurs, the people involved may someday forget, but in some cases the land doesn't. Sometimes a place becomes contaminated, or possessed, by the misery that transpired there. Vegetation fails to grow, beasts and birds become sick or mad. The land is cursed, forbidden and dangerous. A Corpse Land is called this mostly because the bodies of the dead are ever present. No matter how many are buried, more seem to just appear, still bloody and disease-ridden, attracting scavengers that become puppets of the ghosts that haunt the place. In fantasy stories, Necromancers are drawn to such locations, and no matter how noble the armies involved may have been, they become twisted and malevolent, even attempting to re-enact their final moments with travelers who pass by. In reality, openly decomposing bodies are only disease vectors for a relatively short time — once animals and bugs have cleaned the bones and the tissue has been absorbed into the soil, all that carbon and minerals can actually promote plant growth. However, wars fought with modern technology — or magic — may leave a lot of stuff behind that's more dangerous than bodies, and the psychological associations of a place of mass death may keep people away better than any threat to their health. A hidden form of this may be a Field of Blades. See also Atop a Mountain of Corpses, Nothing but Skulls. May overlap with Polluted Wasteland or Unholy Ground. Not to be confused with Giant Corpse World, a land made of a corpse. Examples |
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In Watchmen the remains of New York is littered with corpses after Ozymandias goes through with his plan. | |
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The Silmarillion, on the other hand, has a curious subversion: the Hill of the Slain, a gigantic pile of the bodies of the elves and men who were killed in the battle of Nirnaeth Arnoediad, where Morgoth managed to utterly crush his enemies and ensured his eventual takeover of the whole of Beleriand. While the surrounding plains were reduced to a poison-choked wasteland, the hill itself became the only verdant place for miles. | |
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The Belgariad includes the horrible realization by Garion that the strangely shaped mounds of moss in the Arendish forest are corpses from their centuries-long blood feuds. | |
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The Dark Souls games and its relatives use this frequently; notably, almost all found items in the games which in any other title would just be lying around are looted from corpses. New Londo Ruins in Dark Souls takes the cake; most of the walkable floor is made entirely of corpses. | |
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In NetHack, the Valley of the Dead is strewn with corpses of "previous" adventurers the first time the player arrives there. | |
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Eberron: The Mournland used to be the nation of Cyre, until it was destroyed by a magical disaster called the Day of Mourning. One of the side effects of the disaster is that dead bodies don't decompose naturally inside the Mournland- they just lay there still looking like they're less than a day old even if they've been there for years. | |
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In Ilya Muromets, after Ilya is released, there is a full minute's worth of a panorama showing the aftermath of Alyosha and Dobrynya's warriors holding a border position against the Tugars' flanking maneuver. | |
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In the World of Warcraft, Deadwind Pass is a stretch of gray, barren mountains inhabited solely by giant spiders, vultures, and an ogre tribe. Everything else is either dead or left long ago. In Northrend, the Dragonblight is an ancient dragon graveyard littered with the skeletons of wyrms and other creatures. Icecrown Citadel appears to be a glacier at first, but on closer examination you can find corpses frozen in the ice, including Frost Wyrms being excavated by Scourge forces. In Outland, Hellfire Peninsula is a shattered, dusty battlefield whose wildlife is universally violent, predatory and often demonically possessed. Flames erupt from hellish chasms, undead soldiers roam the ruins of their fortresses, the only water available is from swamps of mutated poison slimes, and one of the major local landmarks is the Path of Glory, a road the Horde made from the bones of slain Draenei. The Bone Wastes of Terokkar Forest are covered with the remains of Draenei once entombed in Auchindoun. |
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Any place with a sufficient concentration/accumulation of dead bodies in the New World of Overlord (2012) can become a nexus of necromantic energies, which cause the spontaneous creation of The Undead; weaker forms appear at first, but if some sort of necromantic critical mass can be reached it can cause a chain reaction where ever greater numbers of undead of ever stronger varieties appear until a run-of-the-mill Zombie Apocalypse will seem mild in comparison. This is why cemeteries in large cities such as E-Rantel are walled off and guarded and the weak undead that periodically appear are routinely culled, and why the Katze Plains, where the Re-Estize Kingdom and Baharuth Empire have their annual war/battle, is uninhabited despite ostensibly being in a strategically advantageous geographical location. | |
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Tolkien's Legendarium: The Dead Marshes in The Lord of the Rings, a foul bog stretching miles across Middle Earth filled with corpses from the first war with Sauron. Spirits of the men, elves, and orcs that were buried there try to lure travelers into the marshes to add to the body count. Tolkien scholars speculate that the terrain was inspired by the author's experiences in the waterlogged trenches of World War I. The Silmarillion, on the other hand, has a curious subversion: the Hill of the Slain, a gigantic pile of the bodies of the elves and men who were killed in the battle of Nirnaeth Arnoediad, where Morgoth managed to utterly crush his enemies and ensured his eventual takeover of the whole of Beleriand. While the surrounding plains were reduced to a poison-choked wasteland, the hill itself became the only verdant place for miles. |
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Exalted: Shadowlands are created whenever there's a massive act of slaughter in a concentrated area. They're half-open gates to the Underworld that open all the way when night falls, and are often populated by hungry ghosts and zombies. The Underworld itself is a Corpse Land in a very literal sense, as it's the perpetually decaying bodies of the creators of the world. |
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In Path of Exile, the entire continent of Wraeclast is essentially this. Zombies endlessly roam the coastline and one of the characters even remarks that nothing stays dead for long in Wraeclast. | |
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Aokigahara Forest in The Forest (2016). It's a very beautiful forest, however, it's filled top to bottom with the restless dead forms of people who died there (IRL, it's a popular place to commit suicide in Japan). | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Eberron: The Mournland used to be the nation of Cyre, until it was destroyed by a magical disaster called the Day of Mourning. One of the side effects of the disaster is that dead bodies don't decompose naturally inside the Mournland- they just lay there still looking like they're less than a day old even if they've been there for years. Forgotten Realms: The "Battle of Bones" area, named after an event that changed it forever. Due to drought and the expanding Anauroch desert, a lot of goblinoids (more than a quarter million combatants) had to migrate, humans and allies (more than half of that) were determined to stop them in a convenient pass and much slaughter ensued. Forgotten Realms: Also, on the Sword Coast, an area called the "Fields of the Dead" has had many battles over its territory. During the game's current age, this is a well settled region where farmers still occasionally dig up old bones. |
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A robotic variation: The Eichenwalde and Black Forest maps in Overwatch are littered with dead, occasionally dismembered Bastion-model omnics, the same kind as one of the playable characters, twenty-something years after the battle between humans and omnics depicted in the Honor and Glory cinematic. | |
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In Dwarf Fortress, Evil Biomes are filled with mutated plants that resemble clusters of eyeballs or fingers, murky water, and undead monsters, and any dead monster not quickly incinerated or processed into supplies zombify. There are also dust storms that carry "Forgotten Beast Syndrome," which may involve anything from everyone's eyes rotting away to turning them into undead Demonic Spiders known as Husks. It says a lot when one hopes the cloud of fog that's enveloped your subjects is merely poisonous... An ASCII-based form of this graced the exterior of the infamous Boatmurdered after its residents resorted to magma-cannoning all their troubles away, since no one bothered to clean up the remains. Fanart tends to go a little overboard, depicting a massive wasteland of trashed goblin equipment and elephant bones. |
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An early story of the Berserk manga has Guts passing through the remains of an old battlefield with a priest and his daughter on pilgrimage and having to fight demon-possessed skeletons and other undead because of the Brand he bears. | |
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In Halo, this is often the fate of a planet that gets glassed by the Covenant; in Halo: Reach, we can see this process happen live as the Covenant glass New Alexandria. Post-war, the people who work to restore glassed worlds often feel unnerved by the fact that the "glass" they're clearing is partly made up of people killed during the glassing. | |
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In Mass Effect 3, when Shepard goes onto the Reaper-hijacked Citadel, they end up in a long hallway piled with corpses on either side. In this case the corpses are recent and have actually been stacked there for processing. | |
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Forgotten Realms: Also, on the Sword Coast, an area called the "Fields of the Dead" has had many battles over its territory. During the game's current age, this is a well settled region where farmers still occasionally dig up old bones. | |
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Steven Universe: In "A Single Pale Rose", Steven goes inside Pearl's head to find a missing cellphone, and one of the places he ends up is a memory of the immediate aftermath of the Gem war, where the ground is littered with the gemstones of shattered and corrupted Gems. | |
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The Dead Marshes in The Lord of the Rings, a foul bog stretching miles across Middle Earth filled with corpses from the first war with Sauron. Spirits of the men, elves, and orcs that were buried there try to lure travelers into the marshes to add to the body count. Tolkien scholars speculate that the terrain was inspired by the author's experiences in the waterlogged trenches of World War I. | |
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Numenera: The Pocket Dimension of Dhizrend is buried in the remnants of the dead, with piles of bodies, fields of bone dust, mountains of skulls and titanic ribcages covering it to such a depth that, if it has a regular surface, nobody has ever found it. | |
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An ASCII-based form of this graced the exterior of the infamous Boatmurdered after its residents resorted to magma-cannoning all their troubles away, since no one bothered to clean up the remains. Fanart tends to go a little overboard, depicting a massive wasteland of trashed goblin equipment and elephant bones. | |
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The Rotten Vale in Monster Hunter: World consists partially of massive rotting skeletons and partially of rock caves lined with smaller corpses. It is also eventually revealed to be where Elder Dragons go to die. A bit of an unusual variation in that it's portrayed as a perfectly natural thing and an integral part of the ecosystem, not a corruption of it. | |
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Pools of the Ancient Dead in MediEvil is a barren, swampy area where the dead from a long ago battle still roam. | |
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Dunwall in Dishonored is currently in the midst of a plague born by swarms of large angry rats. Despite the quarantine efforts, the death count is considerable. The bodies of the dead are collected, taken by train to the abandoned and flooded Financial District, and unceremoniously dumped off the raised tracks, forming an enormous pile that the waters float corpses down throughout the rest of the district. | |
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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings has some, complete with skeletons and evil spirits. | |
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The Bible delivers on this trope in the Book of Nahum: | |
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Magic: The Gathering: The plane of Grixis is inhabited by dead things, undead things, demons, and the occasional desperate necromancer. Due to a lack of green or white mana it's incapable of producing new life. Grixis land art in particular tends to be covered in skulls. | |
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Black Crab. While the soldiers are ice-skating across a frozen sea at night, they literally stumble across the bodies of civilians frozen under the ice. There's speculation as to what happened; did a boat capsize, or were they killed by the enemy? It's pointed out that their own side could just as easily have been responsible. | |
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Unsounded: While corpses themselves do not generally remain since things feast on them the border between Alderode and Cresce has been permanently scarred by a khert fire, making it impossible to cast spells near it least the wright have the fire's instability backfire on them and dangerous to try and walk through lest the khert chose to leach or otherwise alter the trespasser. Khert fires also tend to create matter, and monuments and testaments to those who died in them such as the stone pillars immortalizing the demise, in screaming faces and torn open chests, of the plat children who died by overtaxing the khert and starting a khert fire during the Foi-Hellick rebellion. | |
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Warhammer has its share. The Empire's province of Sylvania reached its current state after being hard-hit by The Plague. Since suffering attracts evil magic, the place subsequently got hit with a Zombie Apocalypse. Then the vampire lords moved in... At the center of Ulthuan's inland sea is the Isle of the Dead, the nexus of a great spell woven by ancient High Elf mages to bend the Winds of Magic into their current configuration. As a result of this localized Time Crash, the island is covered with the corpses of elves who fell during the ancient war against Chaos, their millennia-old bodies just as bloody as the day they fell. Nehekhara (Ancient Egypt) is dotted with the tombs of the kings of Khemri, who were buried with their servants to rule the afterlife. Unfortunately, the rituals went wrong, and they returned as skeletons and mummies. Now there's a single country with a few dozen legitimate rulers, each technically correct when they say they're the rightful king. |
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Judge Dredd: The Alternate Universe known as Deadworld is one giant graveyard, having once been the homeworld of four now-undead Dark Judges who reasoned that life itself was a crime. | |
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In the Doctor Who episode "The Doctor's Wife", where the Doctor sees a scrap yard, the TARDIS sees a Corpse Land: | |
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Crysis 2 involves a deadly alien disease that is ravaging New York City. In the game the player is constantly walking past quarantine zones filled with grotesque corpses. | |
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Dead Space: Dead Space uses this as its primary setting, aboard the Ishimura. While an artificial environment, a good bit of the ship seems to have "gone wrong," with most of the safeguards on dangerous areas disabled and the whole ship being a great deal more of a death trap than usual. Also, you know, the roving horde of mutant space zombies that now call the place home. Dead Space 2 manages to both display this trope and imply it. Titan Station is in pretty much the same shape as the Ishimura from the first game. The Ishimura herself appears about 2/3 of the way through the game, but this time is most of the way through a sanitation process. The swathes of blood and gore have been neatly cleaned up, or hidden behind tarps neatly taped to the walls. An NPC even explicitly states that Isaac knows what's beneath all those tarps, invoking this trope implicitly. |
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A town in the movie Ninja Scroll had this. It was a place that was littered with diseased corpses. Or rather, poisoned corpses... | |
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Deadlands: A lot of Civil War battlefields along the Mason-Dixon line are like this, especially Gettysburg. What makes them even worse is that the piles of heaped bodies can experience Demonic Possession and become unique Undead called "Gloms" — which are, as you might expect, heaps of animated corpses fused together by a single animating Manitou, which keep growing bigger and bigger as they absorb more corpses into their mass. | |
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Pudge the Butcher from Dota 2 hails from one of these. The Fields of Endless Carnage are cursed to prevent dead bodies within their borders from ever decaying or returning to the earth, "no matter how deep you dig the grave." Pudge was tasked with butchering corpses to feed the local scavengers, and eventually developed a taste for them himself. | |
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Vermintide II: The Rotblood Tribe, a vicious barbarian horde who worship the Plague God Nurgle, leave their victims strewn across the level — left where they were torturously killed, strung up as decorations, jumbled into festering heaps of body parts, and more. Even the Badass Crew of player characters are sometimes taken aback. | |
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A fairly common theme in Y: The Last Man (2021). Between half the population dropping where they stand at once and the unavoidable knock-on effects, systematic disposal of corpses (to say nothing of 'decent' burials) in more heavily populated areas is difficult at best. New York City was functionally written off even before evacuation due to infrastructure and disease issues was ordered; while the Pentagon (where the federal government holed up) has taped off a large number of rooms to clear out piecemeal. | |
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Muramasa: The Demon Blade has an example in Kisuke's sixth dungeon; "Kawanaka Island, the Ancient Battlefield of Hachimanbara", a former warzone where the soldiers who once fought there continue to do so even in undeath. The whole place is choked with such evil and general negativity from its bloody history that normal people who find their way here will be driven insane by the atmosphere alone; literally the only kind of humans who can even enter this land without any ill effect are Masters of the Oboro swordfighting style (which both playable characters Kisuke and Momohime/Jinkuro conveniently are). | |
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In Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi, the Yiling Burial Mounds are the remnants of a centuries-old battlefield tainted with resentful energy and restless dead. Legions of cultivators over the centuries have attempted to purify the corrupted land and failed, and no one has ever emerged from it alive. Until Wei Wuxian walks out at the beginning of the Sunshot Campaign, after creating demonic cultivation and the Yin Tiger Tally. He later retreats to it alongside refugees from the defeated Wen clan, establishing a settlement to survive. | |
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Mount Todd Forest in Wick is a forest haunted by no less than seven ghosts, the remains of a family who died under mysterious circumstances. The emponymous game "Wick" involves locking some poor sod in at midnight with a single candle and a book of matches and seeing if they make it to 6:00. Most players end up dying. | |
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The Gears of War series has Char "The Ultimate Sin of the COG", the area where the Hammer of Dawn was used on the Locust to halt their attacks, roughly 75% of Sera. In a disturbing mirror of Pompeii, there are ashen remains of every man, woman and child who were unable to reach the safe zone. | |
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In 9, the bodies of those killed by the poisonous gas still lie where they fell, desiccated yet undecayed, as the toxin was so potent that even the bacteria didn't survive. | |
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No. 6: The main characters have to climb a mountain of dead bodies. | |
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Dead Space uses this as its primary setting, aboard the Ishimura. While an artificial environment, a good bit of the ship seems to have "gone wrong," with most of the safeguards on dangerous areas disabled and the whole ship being a great deal more of a death trap than usual. Also, you know, the roving horde of mutant space zombies that now call the place home. | |
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Dead Space 2 manages to both display this trope and imply it. Titan Station is in pretty much the same shape as the Ishimura from the first game. The Ishimura herself appears about 2/3 of the way through the game, but this time is most of the way through a sanitation process. The swathes of blood and gore have been neatly cleaned up, or hidden behind tarps neatly taped to the walls. An NPC even explicitly states that Isaac knows what's beneath all those tarps, invoking this trope implicitly. | |
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Left 4 Dead had areas where bodies were stacked in piles or covered with sheets. Other places had barricades that have been overrun. | |
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