Barghast Warren

The Barghast Warren was a long-dead Warren that was also known as the First Landing. It had been forgotten by the living Barghast and was decayed by the loss of mortal memory. Nevertheless, it was where Quick Ben suspected the Barghast travelled after death, assuming they made it that far.Memories of Ice, Chapter 11, US SFBC p.397-400
The Warren was a insect-filled swamp lit by a pallid, faintly yellow light. Rising from knee-deep, black and foul, swirling water were moss-covered cedar boles and low rises. High-prowed canoes lashed together by rope slowly rotted in the swamp while bundles of supplies on land were covered in mould and fungi. Sound was strangely muted but for the croaking of frogs and dripping of water. The air smelled faintly of saltwater.
The Warren was inhabitated by the Barghast warriors who had not survived their race's long sea journey to Genabackis. They were squatter, wider, and more robustly boned than their more modern kin. They clearly resembled the mix of Imass and Toblakai blood that had spawned their race. Hooded brow-ridges hid their eyes and they wore their long, black hair parted down the centre and tied in rough braids. They wore close-fitting sealskins decorated with bone, antler, and shell and carried long, thin-bladed knives as well as harpoons made of bone.
==In Memories of Ice==
During the Pannion War, the Barghast Sticksnare, Talamandas, pulled Quick Ben into the Warren to make a bargain. The former White Face shaman claimed that the Barghast dead did not reach the Warren, saying they instead went "nowhere, and everywhere. They are lost." Additionally, the Founding Spirits of the race's first warchiefs were also not among them having been lost long ago. But the warchiefs' bodies and spirits had been found trapped in Capustan by Humbrall Taur's children, Cafal and Hetan. If Quick Ben helped the spirits communicate this fact to Taur the Barghast people could once again be reunited with their Gods.
Unlike the more familiar Warrens, the Barghast Warren was unaffected by the Crippled God's poison. Talamandas offered Quick Ben safe access to the Warren's magic in return for his help.Memories of Ice, Chapter 18, US SFBC p.606-607
==Notes and references==
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