Bleeding Mark is a settlement in Horizon Forbidden West.
Description[]
The settlement is a field of derelict Old World mining machinery. Similar to the other Desert settlements, the inhabitants rely on the Old World structures as foundations for their housing.
The adjacent mine, dubbed the Gouge, contains supplies of ashblood (the Tenakth term for cinnabar), which the Desert Clan uses in pigments. As such, the settlement will trade ashblood to Scalding Spear in exchange for water rations.
History[]
Old world[]
The area was originally a cinnabar mine in western Nevada that was shut down for excessive mercury concentrations. An attempt was made to illegally reopen the mine under pretense of fraudulent data of its safety, but an environmental activist group with an inside operative in the mining outfit exposed the fraud.[1][2]
New world[]
Historically, Bleeding Mark was as arid as the rest of the Desert Clan's territory. However, the rampancy of AETHER resulted in increased rainfall within the region. Rather than providing the settlement additional water to supplement their perpetually low supply, the rain came down in destructive storms.
One such storm led to a mudslide that flooded the village.
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Trivia[]
- Once the quest The Deluge is completed, Aloy can return to find a partially rebuilt village and now trade among merchants.