The Drowned Vale

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## The Drowned Vale

A map of The Drowned Vale.

**The Drowned Vale** is a map featuring a large broken dam and a swampy terrain. The map is characterised by the loads of flood damage, consisting of muddy plains, loads of small creeks and damaged infrastructure. Be careful when using an aquatic vehicle to traverse the wetlands here; abandoned Barges can be seen littered around seemingly deep enough waters. Watch out for shallow waters, or you'll join them too!

Typical for the region are the large wooden roads. These are only accessible by foot and stand very high in the landscape, sometimes reaching up to the second floor of buildings, going over both shallows and land. They also form an obstacle for defences and vehicles, and climb-up spots are limited in some spots.

The capital of the region, ironically named The Baths, is one of the struck areas of the region. It is only accessible by vehicles from the direct north and south. The small islands are interconnected by fordable water and the large wooden pathways typical for the map.

## Update History

It has been added to the game with Update 0.26 with the introduction of the hexagonial maps.

With Update 0.29 Border Forts has been removed and been repurposed as Zone Bases.

## Lore

#### Old Letter

Old Letter

Slick with dirt and damp, you find a pile of letters mingling amongst a smattering of small parts, tools and different calibres of bullets. One of the letters illuminates what this intrepid engineer might have been up to.

The mechanism won’t fire quick enough to make a difference. It overheats and I can’t seem to get the balance right. Everytime I try to hit the target it flails about wildly. Three tripods I’ve broken, Jonathan, three! How’d they manage it? Maybe we’ll never know.

I must have burned my skin to bone about as many times as I’ve broken fingers. These blasted old rifles… maybe it’s time to seek out new materials. New tools. I fear I may not be successful out here in the wetlands. Let me tell you, those dreadful birds never shut up!

If you have any thoughts, please write back in a hurry.

*He signs off with only, ‘Your dear friend.’*

Location of Old Letter - The Drowned Vale - E12k9

 Old Letter

#### Dead Bird?

Dead Bird?

The grisly sight of a dead bird lies before you. Yet, depsite your own logical internal protests, you decide to take a closer look.

*At first, what you take for a dead bird is in fact, a carcass stuffed with straw and leaves. Its feathers and eyes have been carefully reconstructed.*

*What a morbid display.*

Location of Dead Bird? - The Drowned Vale - E12k9

 Dead Bird?

#### Mad Scrawlings

Mad Scrawlings

A putrid stench fills the air. You nearly retch, but steel yourself and swallow it back. The source of the smell is clear; a skeletal corpse lay against the wall. A small rock is entangled between bony fingers.

*Your eyes flit to something peculiar behind him. The wall near the corpse is plastered with mad scrawlings.*

Hah. I figured out what none could. Stupid smugglers. Stupid me, I guess. They found me, and I’m sure you figured out what happened.

There’s another wall, you must know. Nothing less than a tank will crack it, and even then, I’m not sure that would do it. Maybe with enough force.

Enough . . . What is enough?

It’s dark now. Light flickers. Out of matches. Cold. Hungry. The monsters. Did I deserve this?

Location of Mad Scrawlings - The Drowned Vale - E11k2

 Mad Scrawlings

## Named Locations in The Drowned Vale

* The Baths
* Bootnap
* Coaldrifter Stead
* Eastmarch
* Esterfal
* Fleetsfall River
* Loggerhead
* The Other Vein
* The Saltcaps
* Singing Serpents
* Sop Fields
* Splinter Pens
* Sprite's Game
* The Turtlerocks
* The Wash
* The Willow Wood
* Wisp's Warning

1. ↑  "Foxhole Stats." https://foxholestats.com/ Accessed 5 Oct. 2019.