The Withering

As the land died along the shores of the Fallen Moon Lake many asked what kind of curse befell its waters. Yet soon they saw the corruption seemed to care little for where the waters reached, as it slowly crept further and further away from its seeming source. As the ages turned, and those who saw the land slowly turn on itself passed on, accounts became legends, truth became myth. Nobody remembers who inhabited the mountains on the lake's northern shores, but all know that darkness befell their halls. The settlements that once dotted the land now lay abandoned, winds their only visitor.

As centuries crept forward, and the corruption which slowly became known as the Withering, spread, vile creatures called the Withered started to appear. These beings raid nearby lands through tunnels or in the dead of night, killing all those they do not kidnap. Little if any is known of them, their origin remains a mystery much like that of the curse itself.