The Old Barrow The Nerath Campaign & The Nerath Timeline The current year for our Nerath campaign is set during the year 103AE. Inspired By Gary Gygax

The Old Barrow or as most know it as the "Barrowmaze" dominates the hightopped hills south of the settlement of Nenlast. The region is a vast fetid bog south of Lake Nen from which it feeds off of. Within these marshy hills, an obscuring fog hangs heavily on the landscape and easily disorients travelers.

At dusk the fog is nearly impenetrable and the moon casts an eerie glow across the soggy hills. The air feels thick and hard to breath. The marsh smells of rot and decay. The ground of the Barrowmoor is soft and footprints quickly fill with dark peat-coloured water.

The hills are difficult to navigate due to the tangled and near impenetrable mass of decaying trees, weeds that stand seven feet high, knotted vines, and deep pools of black swamp water.

The hills are an unnervingly silent place. Occasionally the deep croak of a bullfrog can be heard before it plops into the water, or perhaps the distant caw of a raven, but otherwise the hills is strangely quiet.

Stories abound about the monsters and inhabitants of the Barrowmoor. A tribe of froglings is known to exist somewhere in the central eastern portion of the marsh. These small, frog-like humanoids often emerge from the moor to attack caravans travelling back and forth along the trade routes to from Nenlast to Hammerfast and and even as far as Fallcrest.

Locals also tell stories of creatures flying above the fog covered hills and dark fell creatures lurking throughout the region around the Barrows. Adventuerers brave enough to journey across the dark shrouded region also tell tales of lizardmen conducting strange rituals around ancient standing stones in the southern portion of the hills.

For much of the year the Barrowmoor is near impenetrable. During the fall, winter, and early spring the region is simply too soggy and water-covered to traverse. The hills lie in a lowland region which takes on a lot of water from Lake Nen.

Over the last two seasons, the populations of Nenlast have grown with adventurers in the summer months and adventuers have also set out from Fiveleague House in search of ancient treasures and magic.

Most of the heroes who went into this region have not been heard from again. The few who do return are changed and speak of dark evils lurking in the foggy region. Most of these adventuers that do return warn others that this region is best left alone.