The Fiend Rains

Geological / environmental event

Unseasonal torrential rains begin to fall on the eastern slopes of the Towers, the rains continue virtually nonstop causing extensive flooding, washout of roads, and undermining of city walls and building foundations; Kingdom of Suilley, County of Vourdon, Keston Province, and County of Toullen are hardest hit.   Casualties from flooding and mudslides have reached the tens of thousands, the destruction of property is on a massive scale, and trade on the South Road has virtually been brought to a halt, causing economic recession in the lands east of the mountains. The noted scholar and philosopher Oscobar of Vermis declares the rains to be the work of the forces of Darkness and calls them the Fiend Rains, he predicts they will continue for another 13 years. The strange blind mystic Lun of the Mountain calls the rain Ryna’s Tears, but she gives no explanation why; Lun says the rains will end in 6 more years.   After 10 years, the Fiend Rains come to an end. The Borderlands begin to dry out and dig themselves out of the mud; Drainage to the lowlands of the Hearthglen have become a spreading marsh that is eventually known as the Creeping Mire.