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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormtalon" data-source="post: 3841063" data-attributes="member: 5541">One hundred and fifty years ago, the town of Bogwatch was a thriving trade hub called Highgate as it commanded the top of the only easy ascent up a wide and treacherous ridge which overlooked a fertile river plain below.  The town's fortunes changed when a large lake 40 miles upstream and on the upper side of the ridge finally caused the stone to give way and flooded the plain. What was once a peaceful farmland has since become a sodden bog, swampy and dank.  In places, the old trade road southwards from the ridge can be seen cutting across hilly areas that managed to stay somewhat dry after the flood.  All trade from the south ceased due to the disaster, leading to a decline in the town's prosperity.Only about 3000 souls live in Bogwatch now, a far cry from its peak of about 10,000.  Many of the buildings in town now lie abandoned and rotting from the humidity that constantly washes up from the swamp at the bottom of the ridge.  Its stone walls are still as sturdy as ever, but not manned as well as they used to be.  Most of the guards keep a wary eye on the path up the ridge, as occasionally some of the creatures which moved into the swamp make raiding forays against the town.All of the common races are represented in town (though humans are the most numerous), and even a few goblins eke out a living amongst the abandoned buildings in the section of town closest to the ridge.  The towngobs are grudgingly tolerated by the other inhabitants, as they do fight as well as any when the town is threatened from below.The only farms remaining in the area are nestled among the hills to the north and east of town, and a vast, dark forest looms a mere half-mile to the west of town.  Farms dot the edge of the forest and eladrin are occasionally glimpsed moving deeper in the trees -- rarely coming out to trade directly with the farmers themselves.Several sodden cave systems are known to open up at various spots along the base of the ridge, and three miles to the south --on one of the few remaining spots of high ground-- an old, crumbling watchtower can be seen rising above the everpresent mist and fog near the banks of the river which still winds sluggishly through the marsh.Trade roads still come into Bogwatch -- one from the west, cutting through a slightly less foreboding portion of the woods, and one which run along the ridge to the east, towards the city of Fairhaven.</blockquote>

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