Killing Ground

The region south of the Lost Mountains was once home to several Hundaei clans. Their proximity to the forbidden regions, including Lake Hali and the Shadowlands to the north, sometimes affected their lives and spawned strange creatures or induced madness in those who ventured too close, but for the most part these were just more of the normal challenges faced by the nomads in those days. All of that changed around –450 I.R. when the first incursion of shadow swept out of the north and corrupted some clans and destroyed many others. The shadows themselves killed and corrupted many, but most deaths were a result of clans turning on each other (and on themselves) in a maddened blood-frenzy. Legend holds that the grounds are so thick with the skulls of the dead that a traveler can walk for miles without ever touching earth. Among the Shattered Folk, the area is strictly taboo and even approaching the Killing Ground merits severe punishment. Undead in many forms lurk here, along with murderous remnants of the Shadow and (it is said) the shambling remains of the old corrupted Hundaei tribes, known as the Fallen Ones.

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