Mournwold
Overview - "The Mourn"
This desolate land was known as the Mourn even before its final fall to the barbarian hordes in 349AE. Originally the name referred to the sound of the wind in the trees and across the craggy hills. Now it seems a more fitting name for the loss which Marcher folk feels at the March's passing. The conquest of Mournwold is fresh in the hearts and memories of many Marchers.
The barbarian forces that eventually defeated the Marchers amassed for months in the forest to the west. Despite the Imperial forces that tried to turn them back, the horde was so numerous and ferocious that Mournwold was lost in pitched battle. As the troops withdrew heavy hearted from a battle they could clearly not win, the hordes did not pursue, they stayed in those hills and valleys, scurrying down the mines, slaughtering and devouring the cattle, defiling and tainting the holy places for their own dark ends. With the loss of the Mourn, the Marches has lost much of its mining.
Minor Settlements
Sarcombe
It's a ruin now, or so the last Marchers to leave say. It was a mining town, rich off the back of trade in green iron. Refugees from Sarcombe mostly went east to Overton.
Overton
A sheep-farming town and market set on a hill, now the front line of the war between the Empire and the barbarians in the west. It has been supported strongly by League forces from Tassato. There’s a note of self-interest, but the people of Overton have been grateful for the help. They may not have a senator, but they hold the line for the territory that’s lost.
Places of Interest
High Courage
A large statue of a stag with broken antlers, ascribed to the people of Terunael. On a stone block at the base of the statue Imperial letters simply read “High Courage”.
Old Pig
An aptly-named chalk figure carved into the hills of the wold.