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The Mirecrawl
The only land route between Athervon and the lands of the Wild Coast to the south, the Mirecrawl is a long, extremely dangerous road that threads itself between the mountains and The Dire Fens. In places, it is little more than a cart-wide outcrop of rock overlooking The Fall on one side and the sheer cliff of the mountains to the west. It is only used by the poor and the desperate, who cannot afford sea travel.
The Fall
A rocky cliff-like formation that extends almost completely around the landward borders of the Dire Fens, clearly demarcating where it begins. The Fall starts as a low cleft towards the coasts, and rises to a sheer cliff of several hundred feet on the central-western border against the mountains. The Fall has few roads and paths through it that lead into or out of The Fens - thankfully, say those who live on its borders.
Oozing Mounds
The Oozing mounds, a loathsome swath of hills that are minor bubbling mud volcanoes, constantly spewing forth hot mud and stinking gasses, which run down into the brackish flows of the swamps nearby.
Sink-Mire
Sink-Mire, a treacherous stretch of the mire that is riddled with quicksand and tar-pits – to be traveled in with the utmost care, and only in the utmost necessity.
The Bleak Marshes
Sodden grasslands north of Bloodthorn Forest and the Oozing Mounds and south of The Fall, named for one's chances making it across as much as for the dreary landscape.
