Geography of Yew

Southern parts:
“Peaks of Disgrace” mountain range. High mountains, unclimbable, always covered with snow. The entrance to the dungeon Sham is on the southern side of the mountains.
Groups of orcs, ettins and trolls hunt the woods surrounding the Peaks. The woods itself is a part of the Deep Forest.

Northern parts:
The town of Yew is situated here. Once a loose settlement of timber-huts connected by shady paths is now recovering slowly from the decades of decay after the wars of the third dawn.. At night will ‘o wisps and the ghosts of these that died in the swamps still haunt the area.
The Court of Justice is still intact and lies on rocky ground, but monsters from the swamps dwell there.
The Abbey is the only part of northern Yew still in its former shape and in use. Travellers and monks come, work, live and pray there.

North-eastern parts:
The part east of the Yew moongate up to the Lake of Remembrance is almost untouched by humans. It is a deep, wild forest with mossy trees several hundred years old. You can wander through this part of the forest for hours and only hear the many animals living there. It is a relatively save part of the forest. On the eastern fringe of the Deep Forest lies the Shrine of Justice surrounded by the lovely flowerfields and hills.

Eastern parts:
Towards the Serpent’s Spine mountain range, the Deep Forest becomes more hilly. Small caves and lakes are spread across it. The forest is still deep and dark and gives you both a feeling of tranquillity and remembrance for the days before mankind was. Above the crowns of the mighty old trees, eagles from the mountains search for prey and on ground packs of wolves and bears are hunting.

South-eastern parts:
This is basically the Orc Valley. A brutish orc tribe has their mountain halls deep under the Serpent’s Spine. The area once was a forest like the rest of Yew, alas the Orcs had no use for the beauty of the forest, but for the wood in their forges. Nowadays many trees in the valley are chopped down. Other trees have died because of the poisonous pollution from the orc’s forges. A thin film of ashes from their forges’ chimneys covers great parts of the valley.
Only a few adventurers dare to go to the valley, for warbands of orcs and ettins patrol the area tightly.

Western parts:
West of Yew is the sea. The sea is usually a calm one and hosts many fish swarms. But after Yew became a swamp, ship service declined and these days only few vessels travel the sea of Yew.

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