Lir'frodWorm Field

This rugged area lies west of the God Rim. It slopes downward towards a mysterious lake named the Angels Wound and the headwaters of the Salt Flow river. Most of this gentle slope resembles a badland, dry and stripped of vegetation. It has one river, draining from the glacial wastes west to the lake's eerie waters. The rest of the streams, rainfall, and other drainage usually do not make it out of the area, diverted and disappearing into banks of upturned earth and holes descending deep into the subterranean realm below. These holes are the mouths of tunnels, three to four feet across, plunging all the way down to the farms of Boletus. Fattened and driven by an urge to ascend, each worm carries a drug that has plagued the lands around for thousands of years. Their journey nears its end at Lir'frod, the Worm Field, where they eventually fall victim to beasts or those eager to collect them. For the beasts that dine on them, many have an urge greater than hunger for making a kill, as they are addicted to what many call the Boletus Chain. Those out collecting these worms seek to make a small fortune, for the worm meat carries a drug that, while inert in the worm, becomes active and highly addictive once consumed by warm-blooded creatures. The desire for these worms is so great, with many of the populace addicted, that the Ashmerthoon Empire and the city-states Valdrek Jusk and Zomaar Yelvaad, despite their rare agreement on anything, came to terms, splitting the area into zones, with hunting parties pledging to return the worms to the markets of whichever zone they are in and pay a percentage to Boletus's drug lords.