Maps - Rostofar Valley

Rostofar valley, named after the town at its center. Your maps and travel info tell you nothing more than that. No reason for there being a town here at all it seems, except that there happens to be a valley here.

And what a valley. The path you are on drops rapidly from the mountain pass into a bowl of fog. In areas where the fog opens up you can see strange looking trees and perhaps a river or stream of some sort.

After a few days rest you depart, happy to find that you can leave the valley. The swampiness is drying up. The trees appear to be growing straighter, their leaves a brighter shade of green. You detect small critters in the underbrush.

You are not sure what climactic phenomena lead to such dense fog. Maybe the moisture from the river is trapped in the valley by the mountains on all sides. Maybe it rains here a lot. Whatever the reason, it looks rather ominous.

After a few day's journey through the mountains you come to Mendor, a coastal village where you can more properly rest and recuperate. The town is fully stocked with all a group of budding adventurers needs.

The valley gives you the creeps. You could turn around, but then, you are supposed to be searching for adventure. Maybe it's here. At least, you know from the howling that there are wolves to be killed up ahead...

You rent yourselves rooms at the local bed and breakfast and spend your nights regaling the townsfolk with your tales. Ahh, the adventuring life. This is why you hit the road in the first place...

— Excerpts from The Fog

Town	Location	Levels	Special
Bat Cave	43,40	1	—
Castle Petra	23,18	5	—
Dank Cave	4,37	2	Blocked Area
Rostofar	22,36	1	—
Starting Path	(7,41)	1	Start
Tokal Glen	27,40	1	Blocked Area
Wolf Den	33,6	1	—

Villages and Hauntings

”For nine hundred years the castle has been abandoned. Before that it was occupied by a prince, noble of birth but stern and haughty. With the help of a thousand servants he built the castle in this remote valley, far from the world.

He lived up there; his servants lived down here. They founded what has become our town. They raised his food and they suffered at his hand. For this prince studied pain, the pain of others, reveling in torture, maiming, and death.

(...)

He ordered all in the hall killed (...). He then had his guards attack the town, slaying man and beast, until little moved in the valley.

It is unknown how long he stayed in the valley or where he went, and unlikely he could survive without support and servants. Eventually, the survivors of the massacre returned and rebuilt, and soon enough the castle was forgotten.”

(...)

I believe the prince has returned to his castle, after these hundreds of years."

— Chanof, priest in Rostofar (The Fog)

Castle Petra
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"Some years ago the town was thriving. It didn't export much given the difficulty in getting into and out of the valley, a bit of fish from the river perhaps, but the town was lovely. A quiet vacation spot away from the travails of the Empire.

Rostofar

One day a young fellow with a strange accent and a funny outfit came by asking about the castle up on the mountain. It is off to the north west- been abandoned for as long as anyone can remember. He seemed to know about it, and said he was coming home.

No one took him seriously at the time- he couldn't have been more than 20 and the castle had been abandoned next to forever. But they should have paid more attention. He was a Tokal, though no one knew it then.

The Tokal are a tribe of some sort, and they serve Him from what I gather. When the Tokal set up camp down river, He moved in to the castle. A month or so thereafter the fog started, the forest withered and became twisted, and we became trapped here."

Tokal Glen

— Mayor Birch, Rostofar (The Fog)

Caves in Rostofar Valley

Dank Cave

”Somewhere in this valley is a cave, the final resting place of our Master's father. Our Master is old, and does not recall where his father was laid to rest. He deeply misses his father.”

”You are to find our Master's father's resting place and return word of it. It is in a cave in the valley.”

”There may be many tombs in this valley- you will know you have arrived at the right one when you find the sword. His father had a beautiful silver sword. Bring me the sword and tell me where the cave is.”

— Tokal Wizard, in the Tokal Glen (The Fog)

Wolf Den

Bat Cave