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Areas afflicted by Grail are perhaps the ones where the most influence still remains, and also some of the more populous. During the apocalypse much of them were flooded, not just with water, but with blood or honey or stranger fluids still. These areas are ones where strange vines grow and strange fruit grows, of the kind that cannot be eaten only once. The people affected by Grail influence tend to be reckless and hedonistic, and the influence released during the apocalypse caused many of them to use it as an opportunity to commit acts that they usually did not do, or indulge in desires they had repressed, leading to a societal collapse in the places so affected.
Many are now addicted to a variety of substances or pleasures, both mundane and unique to Grail-tarnished land. A vast majority of the Long who were in these areas during the apocalypse are now Alukites, as the urge to commit the Crime of the Sky became irresistible during the hours when the border between the real and the surreal were blurred. Most of these Long tend to avoid contact with others out of shame, feigned or real. These areas are also where the Carapace-Crowned dwell, and venerate their strange goddess. One should not approach them, one should not speak to them, one should not become them. They are smooth talkers, despite lacking voices as humans have, and they have convinced many to join their ranks with their succulent promises.
====Moth====
The areas affected by Moth are the ones of which is known the least, and most of them differ significantly from each other. Common themes include the breakdown of perception and knowledge, and the forgetting of things and words, rampant growth of plants, spatial anomalies of various kinds, distances being much shorter or longer than they appear or objects being much closer or farther away than they appear, and aggressiveness on the part of animals. Humans remaining in these areas gradually lose their senses and return to their base animal state, filthy and unclothed. The Carapace-Crowned well here too, sometimes.
====Knock====
Areas affected by Knock influence experienced grand turmoil during the apocalypse, and are today the ones from which the fewest return. During the apocalypse structures leveled themselves, old wounds opened and people bled to death, and portals and spatial anomalies appeared everywhere. Space is inconsistent, and doors and windows do not open into where they should, and frequently moving fissures in reality take people from one place to another, often unexpectedly.Knock did not affect the minds of people much, though it remains inadvisable to sleep in a Knock-influenced area.
====Secret Histories====