
The Filth is also home to the vital but dirty industries like tanners, gong farmers, street cleaners, the fisheries, and the dirty middenstone vats. The Filth is the lowest part of the city, a series of natural or artificial islands, where the poor and desperate dwell. It is a thick tangle of buildings and maze-like alleyways where most of the shops and residences can be found. The Tangle is the most crowded part of the city. The buildings are large and made of stone and timber. The cobbled streets are broad and bleached white. The Crown is the home of Carrion Hill's nobility and most of the government and public buildings. The Crown atop the hill, the Tangle on the hill's slopes and the Filth. It is the only solid ground in the swampland known as the Wrythe for a distance of nearly 20 miles to east or west. The city rises over the swampy southern banks of Kingfisher River. Varisians first settled Carrion Hill in 2397 AR prior to this, Carrion Hill was a holy site for the local Kellid tribes.Ĭarrion Hill is located in the county of Versex in the Soivoda region of eastern Ustalav. Why people choose to live here is unclear, but for some reason they always have. The city of Carrion Hill in eastern Ustalav is a strange place, resting atop an unnatural and unsettling mound. What unimaginable creature stalks the streets of Carrion Hill? Discovering the truth will not only test our heroes mettle but their very sanity as well. They must move quickly to uncover the sinister plot behind this incident before more carnage is wrought throughout the city. Now, the PC's are sent by the beleaguered Mayor and his watchful Crows to discover what and where this stalking monstrosity is. A monster stalks the twisted alleys of the city, spreading panic before it and leaving destruction in its wake. Yet this morning, a dreadful recrudescence rises from the depths of buried nightmare in the vaults below Carrion Hill. Often enough that only a few sinister scholars and curious minds know the true nature of the hill’s original inhabitants. The strange city of Carrion Hill has long loomed over the surrounding swamps in eastern Ustalav, yet its rulers have shifted many times through the centuries.

Only its name has remained constant through the ages-Carrion Hill." The city was built upon the battlefields of history past, for many have sought to control this key feature, this lonely hill in a sea of mud and mire. Know that this is but the latest of cities to crown this summit, a monument to the filth and grime and waste of civilization.

"Walk, if you will, the claustrophobic alleys of the Tangle, the middenstone vats of the Filth, and the cobbled white roads at the summit of an ancient hill.
