Warriors Rest

Warriors Rest

The Warriors Rest, an uneven ridge that issues from the rich and fertile earth that surrounds the plateau that, in turn makes up Madania. Many years ago the malevolent dragon king known as Zemorwrath descended from its sanctuary in the Hosham mountains to wreak seemingly unprovoked havoc on the unsuspecting tribes of Madania.

Dragon fire scorched the earth and the charred bodies of warriors lay broken and steaming, the air ripe with the smell of roasting corpses. While the attack took place, the most skilled smiths from all the tribes gathered in the capital and under instruction of the head warrior they began to forge a blade from the head warriors crown, it is said that the warrior couldn’t stand the screams of his people any longer and so plunged his hand into the forge, seizing the glowing metal with a bare hand. He went forth into the battlefield and in doing so, meeting his end in the jaws of Zemorwrath, with his final breath he drove the still seething metal through the skull of the dragon. The colossal remains of the dragon lie there to this day, jutting from the soil and stone as if it were being slowly consumed by the earth itself.

Much of the skeleton is still buried, giving the mound it’s raised vantage point, small amounts of work from the locals have been made to reveal parts of the skull itself… but work is nowhere near complete, for now the warrior who had once slain the dragon king still lies in its jaws and his sword with him. The local wildlife on the ridge is near non-existent as the presence of lesser to mid-tier has scared all intelligent life away, the locals however are of a different sort: hardy and stubborn, it’ll take a lot more to dissuade them from recovering the legendary blade.

The exact reason behind the appearance of the undead is unknown, we can only speculate that they were drawn to the area by the tantalising promise of bone barrow and the increased activity of the living. That is if we were to be lucky, perhaps darker forces are at play here… if anything is clear, they seem to be waiting for something.