Covenbog Fallow
More like a large village or a small town, Covenbog Fallow is basically a single, magically warded living tree cabin, surrounded by a variety of mud huts, shallow pools, and animal pens. “The Fallow” is the greatest concentration of druids, hags, witches, and their various animals and other livestock within the Starless Mire.
While it is true that most of the Fallow’s populace roams the Mire in their mystic learnings, this is where they are bound to return to and report to the Witch Queen Yagba. While not all who dwell in the Mire acknowledge her rule, the old witch's magic, guile and relationship with Sabal makes it difficult to ignore her orders in practice.
There is not much in the way of “normal” urban amenities in Covenbog Fallow. Its denizens get almost everything they need from the swamp itself, and few of the witches or hags wish to live there permanently; rarely more than a handful are found within.
Behind its sharpened stake “walls,” Covenbog Fallow is a strange, spirally-themed collection of huts, drawn-mud hovels, and witch nests. Those who are found there generally live in coven groups of three to five - their habitation constructions are highly personalized from coven to coven.
Some are decorated in grisly trophies and grotesque “art,” some in natural patterns of feathers and animal pelts, and more than a few are wallpapered with vines, moss, and grease paint.
Between these buildings are bubbling hot mud pools, patches of oversized mushrooms, and sprawling vegetation dotted with brightly colored flowers and carnivorous leaf-traps.
There are cats, rats, owls, lizards, and snakes all over the village. Some are likely the familiars to Covenbog’s inhabitants, but many might just be attracted to the wild, magical forces of nature that live here.
At the center of the spiral pattern of Covenbog lies the much larger and dramatically patterned wood and mud hut that is home to the Witch Queen herself. It sparkles in the right light - the embedded crystals and polished stones on its surface glinting in a combination of external light sources and phosphorescent muck clinging to its walls. A heavy curtain of beads and bones makes up the building’s door, and a trickle of teal smoke curls up away from the stacked stone chimney at its rear.
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