Landmarks: The Blue Soil

The Blue Dirt: This soil is dark, moist and clearly rich but instead of black it is colored blue. This property is absorbed by the plants and animals that live upon the soil and will be attained temporarily by any who eat the blue animals (taking a bite out of something will stain a person blue for a 10 minutes, consuming a meal will tint them azure for 1d3 days). Superstitious farmers will avoid the perfectly fertilized and usable land while kings and lords may wish the soil retrieved so that they might grow their own exotic blue gardens.

D6		Effects	Possible origin
1	Benevolent	Though not apparent at first the creatures who grow from this blue soil are immune to disease due to tiny immune system bolstering organisms that grow within it, as a side effect of this they turn the soil blue. Observant characters will note that the trees and animals are free of blemishes, that their cuts never infect, and characters who eat blue creatures will be cured of any diseases and immune to new ones as long as they are blue. This place might be sought out and destroyed by disease cultists or hoarded by a small group believing (perhaps truthfully) that it’s power is limited and is best kept to them.	The organisms were manufactured by an ancient and enigmatic race or group (possibly from the future or space) who created the organisms to prevent a terrible plague that would have originated in the same spot.
2-5	Neutral	The blue soil has no effects beyond simply turning things blue. People may claim it has extraordinary effects (possibly as part of a scam) or fear blue organisms but this is a product of their own mind and has no legitimate basis.	Some hedge wizard attempting to save themselves time and dye attempted to charm a robe blue and in their inexperience allowed the spell to misfire staining the land around them blue.
6	Malignant	The blue soil and food grown within are extraordinarily addictive. Those who became blue upon eating blue food will to exert a measure of willpower to consume non blue food, those who continue to consume it will likely become more obsessed with it (likely burning or throwing out non blue food and fighting over meals) until eventually they distrust anything of a color other than blue. One can stave off the madness with force of will but it becomes difficult the longer one stays, one can also be cured of the addiction if denied blue food. Characters may notice that animals refuse to eat anything aside that isn’t stained blue, jealously guard foodstuffs, and that predators are not interested in them or any animals they bring along. It’s possible that humans make their home here, possibly a small village that violently distrusts all non-blue people or the fortress-temple of a cult who wish to propagate the soil across the world, composting life that they have forced to consume the blue food for soil they might start further gardens with.	This is the result of a vindictive harvest god cursing a farmer who refused to share with his neighbors. He claimed a patch of land for his own and declared that he knew the land well enough that he would never need to share and thus should not share with his brethren. This angered the harvest god (nature is supposed to share) they said “so be it” and rendered the land addictive and blue (a color unnatural to the ground).