The Reeks

This wooden stockade fort originally housed 60 militia who manned river patrols for some 30 miles into the Gnatmarsh. Now there are not 25 left. Most of the others have defected or been overcome by monsters or disease, and the patrol vessels have been broken up for firewood, with only one serviceable vessel left. The militia here have been forgotten, unpaid for nearly a year, and they scrounge what they can from marsh and forest fringe. Their messengers to Beetu never arrived there, and morale is desperately bad. Once proud soldiers have degenerated into feral scavengers, and this is a good place to bring home to player characters how wretched Nyrond's plight has become.