Lake of Sorrows

Small semi-permanant Settlements have flourished on the lake's shore for many thousands of years, thanks to the abundant fish found within, and the timber that the nearby forests provided. When Agriculture came to the area, around 2000 years ago, the forests were cut down, and farms were planted. The soil was fertile and the climate allowed for a relatively long growing season.   In 773bc, the city of Samerin was founded at the southern end of the lake, near the mouth of the Edan river. This great location on the lake and next to this important river allowed the city to grow rapidaly, and it eventualy became the capital of thr Kingdom of Eglazia. The city continued to grow, and the kingdom expanded and surounded the lake, becoming its main anchor point. By the end of the Second Age, the lake began to suffer from overfishing, and even polution in some area as thr population around it grew to millions of people.   In 3Ac, the lake was the sigh of two major catastrophies that saw the death of tens of thousands of soldiers, and the ruination of the great city of Samerin. Since then, the lake has been known as the Lake of Sorrows, for not only those tragedies, but also the fact that the suffering of those deceased can still be heard during a Veosian full moon. Nowedays, only a few thousand people live around the lake, near its northern tip, as if the people want to stay as much away from the ruins of Samerin as they can.

Few travel to the Lake of Sorrows. After all, not much is left of the region's golden age. The rich and fertile farms around it have long since been abandoned, no one fishes in its waters anymore, and the ruins of Samerin dominate over its suroundings, looming large over the lake's dark waters. But one groups does regularly travel here: Necromancers. Indeed, dozens of necromancer mages travel to the region every month, payed by surrounding settlements to exorcise the local ghosts. Indeed, the spirits of those that were killed by the Rekyan monsters, or who drowned in the cold waters of the lake have since transformed into ghosts, that haunt the area, terrorising the few remaining locals, and more importantly, the travellers along the Pilgrim's road.