The Yftelan Mire

The Yftelan Mire was once part of a large series of wetlands spanning the area between the headwaters of the Hannas River and the western shores of the Camal Sea. Arali interference eventually changed this through irrigation. Diverting large quantities of water to their own cause, the Arali lowered the water table, shrinking the mire to its present size. The snakes and lizards of the mire seemed to become more dangerous and more poisonous. The Mire today is doubly dead, a murdered land which had truly died a millennium ago. Deep quagmires await the unwary travelers, and strange fungi - the only living thing which survived the fires of the devastation - release poisonous and hallucinogenic spores into the water and dnak air.