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The outpost at Lygar Krâw is sheltered by forest on three sides and a lake on the other, with treacherous fen to the Southwest beyond the lake. The Elves of Black Rock, aided by cultural exchanges with the Krynnic and Harnic Elves, have made the forest a strongly woven fortification of its own. The outpost itself is a strongly fortified hill, between the forest and the lake, surrounded by farmland.

The fen is laced with patches of quick-mire, thorns, and other harder to understand perils. Healthy stock, and sometimes herders, are found drowned in its fringes. Strange lights flicker temptingly in its depths at night. Vipers and wild boar live in the depths. Even the most adventurous locals only know a few paths through, and would be reluctant to try them at night. A strong watch is kept a few miles in from the fens, but it is by no means tamed.

Lake fishing is predominantly gar and pike, but farming is good here, with peach, plum, and apple orchards providing good ciders and brandies. Some grapes are grown, but the local wines have an off-putting musky flavor. Beehives left in the fens in certain seasons work the abundant hensbane and other nightshades, making a potent 'mad honey' which is greatly prized. Mead made from it is imbibed at midsummer festivals, and the strong local hillforts, called dunhs, disolve into licentious revelry.

Odin's Folk have been welcomed in the area, and dunhs for many miles around send them runners whenever there is troubling news.

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