Worlende

Worlende is a busy town located on the Att River, due south of Chendl. Luther is constructing a walled keep complex on its outskirts and laborers and militia scurry around constantly. The towns administrator is the paladin Hymend, a strong admirer of the king who covertly sends Belvor long missives informing him of Luther’s plans and the work underway here. Hymend also conspires with his chancellor, Ryliand, to cream off some tax revenues and send them to Belvor. For a lawful man, this is painful, but Hymend rationalizes that he is obeying his King, a higher secular authority than Luther, and his own conscience.

East of Worlende lurks a bizarre peril. One of the farmers here possesses a ring enchanted with a permanent empathy (ankhegs) spell. He got it from the body of an unidentified warrior dumped in the Art. The farmers now use the ring to draw ankhegs from the surrounding regions. The ankhegs’ waste products fertilize the land. Unfortunately much of that fertilizer is created at the expense of folk traveling on or by the Att. The farmers draw the ankhegs down to the river to feed and water. Inevitably, these monsters pose a dire threat to anyone else who may be traveling or using the river.