Marrowtown

"The town's pigs were found dead this morning. Drained of all blood and pale as priest's robes. People are starting to look for answers.

''Everyone around these parts talks about it. We think it's real, but no one actually claims to have been there.''

Whenever anyone goes missing, or the cattle dies off, or some hideous thing is seen on the edge of town, there is always one culprit everyone brings up: Marrowtown.

''They are just really collected rumors en' stories. There are no maps, no legitimate written descriptions, only a rumor of a door somewhere in the hills. A deep, dark tunnel that stretches downwards for miles. At the end of it, a set of doors made of bone.''

''Marrowtown is said to be an undead city, a real, flesh en' blood Necropolis. Sentient undead come en' go, ruled over by some ancient being whose name changes with every telling.''

''Priceless artifacts en' works of art, whose work takes centuries to finish, are said to have come from here. Many have tried to find it, but none have succeeded. It would certainly explain why we have to drive Ghouls away from our cattle. It would explain the centuries old tradition of burning our dead, which no one can seem to find an origin for.''

''Of course, it is just a legend. Personally, I think it was the damn wolves around these parts."''

-Entry in the diary of Fieris Gelthal

Legends speak of a city, built under ground by the restless dead. The Lich, Xill Gullwood, built a sanctuary for the undead who still possess a mind.

This rumor is dismissed by most, by many continue to search for it. Common gossip says that there is a secret entrance somewhere in the mountain villages north of Isilsolar. Guarded by a village of living humans, it is under miles of rock before you reach the tomb city.

Were such a place to be real, it would certainly have some of the darkest and most powerful treasures in all of Alduroum.

Local Dungeons: Gallery of the Maiden, Vault of the Mindless