Grim Mire
The Grim Mire (or sometimes called the Blighted Marsh, Zombie Swamps or Zombie Marshes) lies in the southern Mera along coasts of Dagger Bay and the Amethyst Currents. In the ancient past, the Marshes were supposedly the site of the city of Thaylendor now believed to have been taken by the Orcs. Nowadays despite being a rightly feared place where the Undead and darker things are said to make their lairs.
Geography
From the shores of Dagger Bay to the Blind River a great morass of dismal marshland lies like a festering plague. This area is known as the Grim Mire: an ancient and terrible realm where death comes quickly to the unwary. A permanent, reeking mist cloaks the deep black pools and slimy reed beds from view. Sluggish, muddy channels wind through the mire mazelike and unfathomable, darkened on either bank by stretches of twisted stalks which resemble nothing so much as corn blackened in a fire. In places pools form, slicked with a dark iridescence where no living things grow.
To enter the Grim Mire is to walk to your doom, inviting death in the bottomless murk or the jaws of the twisted beasts that inhabit the marsh. Very few brave its terrors, for there are no tales of gold or hidden knowledge lying forgotten in its clutches to draw adventurers to the vast black marsh, reeking mist and toxic pools. No one dares to dwell near it, for fear of the dark secrets it harbors.
History
Deep in the rotting heart of the Grim Mire festers the vile city of the Orcs - Warok Urul. This city lies half-sunken in the noisome morass, a relic of the men that lived there and a testimony to the corruption spread by the children of Gruumsh.
There are tales of independent armies of Skeletons and Zombies in the haunted swamps of Midvar. The dead are often dropped into the mire with lead weights attached to their legs to keep them down, but some still break free and come back to the surface to seek the flesh of the living. It is the dire reputation of the Undead that has perhaps kept men from penetrating the center of the cursed swamp and sacking the city of Warok Urul.
The Company of the Damned is a group of Undead mercenaries who were slain by treachery on the very edge of this swamp and who returned to seek a terrible vengeance
Type
Wetland / Swamp
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