Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 23:47:05 -0500
From: H. S. Teoh
Subject: [CF-maps] Prospective Great Dark Mire

Hi all,

There's a huge inland lake/sea in the NW corner of the world map, NE of Santo Dominion and east of the Warrior's Tower. There's a sizable island in the middle of it, as well as a large circular area NE of the island which is so deep it is deep_sea. I'm thinking of turning this into a Great Dark Mire, covered mostly with the dangerous sinking swamp. Any objections? :-)

The plan is to put the lair of a new nasty monster on the island, perhaps along with a troll nest/fortress, with a secret path to the island through the dangerous marsh. Perhaps I can even make it such that passage through the marsh is impossible except through the secret path. This island currently cannot be seen from the edge of the lake/sea; so I plan to put rumours about it into the map lore. (Something along the lines of, "it is rumoured that there is an island in the middle of the Great Dark Mire, where the most nasty creature dwells...".)

Since I haven't fully planned out the quest yet, I'm thinking of just turning the lake into a marsh for now, and adding the other stuff later. I'm mainly interested in the island surrounded by the marsh; the other parts of the marsh can be used for other purposes if anybody else is interested to do so. (It covers a significant area on the world map.) I thought it'd be nice to have an infamous Great Mire which would make for interesting terrain and hopefully inspiration for interesting quests.

What do people think of this idea?

T


You mean here, correct?