A clustered village of stilts, boardwalks and spike-palisades that sells swamp supplies and stories to anyone foolish or brave enough to enter the Swagg Bogg, offering maps for coin and half-truths for free.
Last light before the Swagg Bogg swallows the world.
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Beadle (elected head)
A compact woman with weathered hands and a ledger always at her hip.
Guide-master
Tall, reed-wreathed cloak and a belt of carved tally-sticks.
Archivist and mapwright
Thin, ink-stained fingers and a satchel of rolled parchments.
River merchant-captain
Broad-shouldered with a smile that never reaches his eyes.
Night Watcher
Dark-eyed, ash-streaked hair, and always carries a whistle.
supply and equipment
A crowded stall beneath tarpaulins selling gear built to withstand muck and mold.
cartography and information
A cramped shop of hanging maps, jars of ink, and a counter barely clamped to a swollen beam.
herbalist and specimen trader
Shelves of jars and pegged herbs perfume the stall with tangy, medicinal odors.
guides, scholars, river merchants, and the occasional desperate adventurer
A low-ceilinged tavern on stilts where travelers, guides and scholars swap stories over thick stew and bitter ale.
professional guild
An organized group of accredited guides who keep standards and fight unauthorized routes.
informal guide collective
Loosely organized guides who know illicit shortcuts and hide their routes beneath folklore.
scholarly and commercial consortium
Ambitious buyers who will pay handsomely for curious items and sealed lore.
A rickety, half-submerged bridge marked with charms warning travelers to turn back.
A reed-labyrinth where echoes mimic footsteps and instruments sometimes lose their tune.
A still pool rimmed with black glass and odd, perfectly round stones that hum faintly.
An abandoned supply cart perpetually half-sunk with locked crates that locals dare not open.
The Beacon's flame is fueled with ground map fragments to 'fix' the outpost's safety in place.
A submerged grotto contains a semi-sentient fungi that records sound and replays memories.
A pact between a few collectors and smugglers grants them protected access to a hidden bog alcove.
The Humming Fragment
Coren Vell hires the party to escort a humming map fragment into the bog for a ritual that will reveal a hidden channel.
Smuggler's Ledger
The Beadle asks the party to recover a stolen ledger listing the smugglers' clients before a foreign buyer uses it as leverage.
The Night Lights
Night Watcher Edda claims the lights are spirits; she wants the party to find and silence the source before trade collapses.
Open the Hollow Cart
Hanna offers the party access to the locked crates of the Hollow Cart if they guarantee the town's safety when its contents wake.
Guide Rivalry
Rauk Thenn needs impartial escorts to negotiate a truce with Bog-Runners while an auction of a map fragment looms.
