The Dire March
The Dire March is a marshy swampland in southern Ruskovish, bordering on the Wastelands. Home to an Unkindness of Hags, the swamps are often lawless places that no good son of winter will go unless there is a dire need. The Hags often fill a sort of “Baba Yaga” role in the local lore - protective of those who serve them, and wicked to those who seek to abuse them.
The southern marshes of Ruskovich are considered the last edges of civilization before the Wastelands of the vast inland sea known as the Tranquil Depths. Nevertheless, however, it is considered the height of desperation or madness to go into the “Dire” Marches, as it is a widely known and never-spoken open secret that a coven of Hags make the Dire Marches their home.
Some argue, however, that if the “Yagas” are treated well and fairly, they possess many cures and solutions that others don’t, but just as many warn that there is a reason a coven of Hags is often called an “Unkindness”.