Tilverton Scar

The Tilverton Scar was a crater, plagueland, and ongoing magical disaster in northern Cormyr, all that was left of Tilverton after it was attacked by the forces of Thultanthar in 1372 DR.

Geography
The Scar was a huge crater that encompassed the entire former site of Tilverton, including the outlying sprawl beyond the walls. Initially born of a rift to the Plane of Shadow which filled the hollow with shifting and unnaturally deep shadows, after the Spellplague it became an active plagueland pocket with a unique combination of raw Weave and shadow energies.

By 1479 DR, a small keep had been erected within a few hundred yards of the plagueland's edge. The curious could use this keep to examine the site with some safety.

Flora & Fauna
The ruins of Tilverton were known to be haunted by deathshriekers, vengeful spirits born of destruction and suffering.

History
On Mirtul 27 1372 DR, Tilverton was attacked by the forces of Thultanthar and fiercely contested by Cormyr, with the city's population evacuated ahead of the battle. Tilverton was destroyed by the magics unleashed by Royal Magician Vangerdahast and Rivalen Tanthul, that caused the entire town and the ground beneath it to be devoured by a mass of shadowstuff flowing from a portal to the Plane of Shadow. All that remained of the town was a crater filled with unnaturally strong and animate shadows.

By Greengrass of 1373 DR, survivors had returned and built a new settlement a few miles away, naming it New Tilverton. Unfortunately, by Marpenoth some unknown creature had begun stalking and killing the locals, leaving their remains on the road to the former city.

After the Wailing Years, the Scar had changed from a mere pit of living shadows to an endlessly collapsing spiral of darkness and blue flame, becoming the only active plagueland in Cormyr. People who got too close were sometimes marked with a spellscar or a wasting disease. Those who were changed by the Scar subsequently dreamt of a monstrous plaguechanged creature of earth and shadow at the bottom of the pit, trapped and sustained by the disaster swirling around it. Legends called the being the Shadow Shredder, and claimed that the Shadovar avoided the area because of it.