Bog of Eternal Stench

The Bog of Eternal Stench is located beyond the eastern border of the Dominion of the Bog Witch.

## The Hermit

In the most disgusting depths of the Bog of Eternal Stench sits a dung-root-covered mud shack inhabited by an entity whose existence is generally credited with being some foul offspring of the Bog Witch. However, the common assumption that another witch's daughter lives in the hut is a misconception. This superstition exists due to the gag-inducing nature of the environment and the fact that only the most brutish mercenary gangs or unfortunate strays set foot on this patch of muddy ground.

In fact, an ancient hermit with a meter-long, tangled beard lives in the hut. Although he hardly ever gets visitors, he is friendly and open to those who visit his smelly home.

Only a handful of living residents of Giantstep know the fact that this cranky hermit is the creator of the Bog of Eternal Stench, who once frequented the highest ranks of the scatomancers brown academy. He himself spread the rumor that the Bog of Eternal Stench was created as a result of a scatoalchemical experiment gone wrong in order to disguise its true origin centuries ago.

The truth lies behind the magically sealed basement door of his muddy abode.

Behind his moldy wooden cellar door, which at first glance seems inconspicuous, there is a deep spiraling mud hole that swallows anyone who steps into it with a slurping sound.

The traveler's mud-sunken body is then ejected only seconds later from a large rosette-like mud structure called the miasmapod which lies hundreds of kilometers from the hermit's hut in the east of the continent.

It erupts the traveler with a farting sound, releasing sulfur fumes and flatulence gases that give this otherwise very efficient mode of travel a bitter aftertaste.

The miasmapod is located at the center of the Bog of Egestión, which forms the natural boundary between the Marquisate of Clay and Grobianismus.

The miasmapod shuts down tightly immediately after the eruption, making a fast return impossible.

Whether the creation of this wormhole was merely an opportunity for the old hermit to put his academic theories to the test in practice or whether it serves any practical purpose is unknown. However, it is suspected by those in the know that the old warlock makes his dimensional gateway available to the Bogwitch from time to time, for an unknown fee.

As the first and only scholar of Giantstep this mysterious hermit who does everything to keep his true identity secret managed to create a magical one-way portal by unleashing a massive scatomantic energy that manifested as a fetid, surrounding-corrupting biosphere (nowadays known as the Bog of Eternal Stench).

## Fauna

### The Old Stenchskipper

The Old Stenchskipper lives in the Bog of Eternal Stench. What it does you may ask? Well it stinks ... really, really fucking bad.

## Flora

### Stinkshrooms

The Stinkshroom or puffball farter emits a foul-smelling gas together with its scattered spores in the wind to reproduce. The scientific name for these are Chontrokoritsiperdons. The smell is comparable to that of the Fart Daisies but ten times worse. So bad in fact that the faint-hearted will faint from the smell. The Stinkshrooms grow throughout the Witch Bogs and are particularly common in the Bog of Eternal Stench.