Abbor

Abbor was a village in Tethyr that supplied the city of Ithmong (later Darromar) with food.

Description
Abbor was a small hamlet of about 80 to 100 persons living in 12 to 15 simple homes. The village was surrounded by farmland. The villagers divided up the land into smaller fields with fences and tall bushes, where they cultivated cereal crops.

Geography
Abbor was located in the county of Monteshi, in the duchy of Ankaram in Tethyr. The village was located southeast of the city of Ithmong about from the Ithal Road.

History
During the Time of Troubles in 1358 DR, many of the crops in Abbor and the surrounding villages were destroyed in the chaos of that world-shattering event. A month after the Time of Troubles ended, however, things did not return to normal. Instead, the population of monsters in the region seemed to increase, and this led to a shortage of food in nearby Ithmong, which relied on Abbor and other nearby villages for food. The monsters made it impossible to prepare the fields for planting in the next spring, as it was too dangerous to do so. Manticores had even attacked and killed a few of the villagers and carried off several goats. Between Abbor and nearby Ruba, ankhegs were appearing in the fields and terrorizing farmers.

These monsters were, in fact, summoned to the region by a series of Thayvian beacons as part of a plot by the Knights of the Shield and Inselm Hhune to prevent Ernest Gallowglass from rising to power over all of Tethyr&mdash;a position that Hhune himself wanted&mdash;during the time of anarchy known as the Tethyrian Interregnum.

The Company of Eight became involved and hired a group of adventurers to investigate the area and determine the cause of all the monster attacks.

Appearances

 * Dungeon #38, "A Blight On The Land"