The Fields of Nun was an open stretch of land running through the northern region of Chondath between the Vilhon Reach and the Akanamere.[1]
Description[]
The Fields were fallow and tainted by the death and disease that had been inflicted there in times passed.[5]
Geography[]
The Fields of Nun lay between the Nunwood and the northern end of the Chondalwood. The River Nun ran through it.[5]
The Fields lay along the Trail of Tears, a pilgrimage route for the devout of Tempus. Pilgrims arrived from a one-way portal in Mistledale amid a ring of standing stones on a hill overlooking the river, followed the trail to an unnamed barrow on which nothing could grow because of all the diseased soldiers buried beneath,[5] and proceeded through another one-way portal to a low hillock on the south bank of the River Thazarim in southeastern Thay.[6]
History[]
The Fields of Nun was the site of an expenditure of Necromantic magic in Year of the Queen's Tears, 902 DR, that released a devastating plague upon Chondath during a civil war that was later called the Rotting War because of the disease.[3][4]
In the Year of the Banner, 1368 DR, Garagos appeared near the ruins of the village of Gosra to destroy the imposter marilith Glackzana who had constructed a temple in his name.[2]
Inhabitants[]
The fields were haunted by ghouls and ghasts that still carried diseases from the Rotting War, such as cackle fever and red ache.[5]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Karen Wynn Fonstad (August 1990). The Forgotten Realms Atlas. (TSR, Inc), p. 6. ISBN 978-0880388573.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Eric L. Boyd (September 1997). Powers & Pantheons. Edited by Julia Martin. (TSR, Inc.), p. 18. ISBN 978-0786906574.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ed Greenwood, Sean K. Reynolds, Skip Williams, Rob Heinsoo (June 2001). Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting 3rd edition. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 270. ISBN 0-7869-1836-5.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Brian R. James, Ed Greenwood (September 2007). The Grand History of the Realms. Edited by Kim Mohan, Penny Williams. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 109. ISBN 978-0-7869-4731-7.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Eric L. Boyd (2001-12-19). “The Trail of Tears: The Scourge of Pestilence”. Perilous Gateways. Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on 2004-02-23. Retrieved on 2020-04-19.
- ↑ Eric L. Boyd (2001-12-26). “The Trail of Tears: Death Before Dishonor”. Perilous Gateways. Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on 2004-02-23. Retrieved on 2020-04-19.