Moon Marshes

Bloody author's bane this place as it had to be moved across the other side of the map to fit the narrative of the Isle of Dragons.
Home to Doomshade, one of the Five Terrors of the Moon Marshes. Killed by the Kardane Company
With that in mind:
...
They
recruited again in Luxor, bolstered their numbers and headed into the Moon
Marshes and the other desolate wastes hidden behind the Joppian Mountains. Some
of them died. Young mercenaries and sell-swords from the backstreets of Wardernton
and Shellbe.
From Broddors story:
Luxor
neighbours Joppa, it’s all mountains, you understand, and behind them is this
place called the Moon Marshes. It’s cursed by evil magic, the sun never really
goes there. It’s so high up on the plateaux that the air feels different,
thinner, it felt odd breathing it, ye know? It’s colder than hell too. The
whole place, it feels wrong. You can live with it, but you never lose that
feeling of difference, a sense of wrongness. Like a toothache maybe, sometimes
you don’t notice it, but it’s always there. The air feels oily and washed out.
Aye, and not
just that, the landscape is all wrong, it’s a network of valleys and marshes,
all topsy-turvy and piled up on itself, caves and tunnels, leading from one
valley to the next. Some ancient race had lived there at some point and that
was how they got about. Going over those near vertical jagged mountains was
impossible, you had to descend into the tunnels and just see where you popped
up. If you think that sounds tricky to navigate, you’d be right.
Aye well
anyway, they are called the Moon Marshes because it never sees the sun and
because the valleys are all full of stinking freezing swamps. They are about a
hundred miles wide north to south, and east to west, it’s at least five
hundred, maybe even more as it descends down into the Norob Forest and no one I
know has been daft enough to go that far.
No one that
ever went up onto the Marshes had ever came back alive either, come to that,
but the King of Joppa was at war with Julgia, and what with all his army
fighting them on his border he needed people to cover his flank, if you see
what I mean, and paid for mercenary companies to go up onto the Marshes and
deal with what was up there.
...
There
are people that live up there, can you believe it? Wild savage folks, true, but
people, more or less. They had a queen, of sorts, oh well, how we dealt with
her, that’s another tale
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