Witzal's Doom

Witzal’s doom is a small dismal bog located in the upper section of the River Daven, about 3 miles north of Ordyne Manor. The nearby Gozdya barbarians believe it is cursed and avoid it. The villagers of Ordayne Manor rarely visit, and some of the few have fallen mysteriously sick. Any fish caught in the lower section of the Daven are blessed before consumption.

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In 575TR, the oppressive and evil Theocracy of Techos named Andasin Kand an outlaw and executed his father for treason. Andasin escaped into the Mimea Hills with a small army of refugees and his father’s retainers. For over a decade, Andasin proved to be a thorn in the Theocracy’s side, allying with the Gozdya barbarian tribes who offered him shelter in the early days of his rebellion. Eventually, after the Theocracy collapsed, he founded the Kingdom of Kanday.

So hated and feared, Andasin was targeted for assassination. Many warbands crossed the Eryn River to hunt him down, but most were destroyed by the future king’s rebels and barbarian allies. One such Warband was led by Witzal the Bone Forger. Witzal was a devoted Morgathic priest, necromancer, and infamous, it is said, for creating skeletal monstrosities. Witzal’s Warband, enhanced by his foul sorcery, raided several Gozdya settlements, flaying captives in depraved, unholy rituals.

Andasin and his Gozdya allies laid false trials, trapping Witzal and his army in a small bog, and enacted their revenge. Many of his soldiers drowning or trapped in muck after a flash flood, some say summoned by a powerful Gozdya shaman. Andasin and his allies slaughtered the entrapped survivors. Witzal’s body was never found, believed drowned in muck.

The small marshland has since been renamed Witzal’s Doom and is believed to be a cursed, corrupted bog almost always shrouded in mist and shadows. What little vegetation is stunted and rotting.