Utter Island
by Gordon McCormickOn Utter island the people prefer the night. They build strange buildings, some wondrous, others almost painful to look at. The geometry isn't right, looking into some of them for long enough would drive someone mad...
Long ago the Utterers were used by the Necromancer Kings to provide homes for the diabolical creatures they summoned to help in the war against the Vampire Lords. Being so close to those summoned beings of unearthly horror drove the albinos slightly insane. They would babble incoherently after they had housed the latest of the King's beasts, but some wondered whether these utterances were in some way holy...
Even today, long after the Necromancer Kings and Vampire Lords have turned to ash, the Utterers continue to build. And one day they may strike upon the right configuration, just the right dimensions of a house that will open a portal. And when the stars are right those long forgotten beings of an ancient war will return...