Blackwell

This is a deserted village wiped out by a plague in 579 CY. Fortunately the plague was so virulent that none traveled beyond the village to spread it before they died. Blackwell always had a reputation as an almost sinister place filled with suspicious villagers who spoke an incomprehensible dialect, and is now avoided by all local folk. It is overgrown by wild plants and scrub, its buildings falling into disrepair. Foul, reeking stagnant waters make its outskirts a miasmatic marsh where an otyugh was recently sighted. Locals whisper of a diseased curse on the village, and also of a reclusive black-cloaked man with pockets full of gold who took up residence just before the plague outbreak . .