Barrowdale

The village of Barrowdale used to be the seat of power of a small duchy with a commensurately impressive castle. But in one of the many ancient wars of politics and borders and power the Duke was slain and the Duchy absorbed into another regional ruler's territory. The castle was allowed to fall into ruin and otherwise life went on for the local citizens. Several centuries later the lives of their descendants took a turn for the strange. The brilliant but mad Wizard Varex Illan  took up residence in the ruined castle and began performing experiments on Mimics, seeking to understand their mutagenic and thaumophagic properties. Unfortunately, when he was kidnapped by elite Morin Regime operatives his experiments were left behind to grow, reproduce and evolve. Thus began a nightmarish season of life in Barrowdale, any object, no matter how beloved or every day could suddenly animate and attack its owner.    The town briefly became popular with adventurers during this season when it was discovered that the nearby castle had begun to spontaneously generate monsters, traps, treasure and magical items. Both this surge of interest and the mimic-infestation were dealt with by a party of anti-Morin adventurers who recovered the Dungeon-Heart , a previously unknown variety of sentient Mimic developed by Varex, capable of inhabiting and warping an entire facility and spawning and controlling its lesser kin. It was only the intervention of a band of Resistance affiliated adventurers that saved the town and returned the Dungeon-Heart to Varex's care.

Type

Village

Location under

Karnes