The Mud Flats

The Mud Flats are an area of loose mud on the northern shore of the Silverstep Lake, just North of the Capitol Abanosia.

The Mud Flats were discovered to be surrounded by a magical by the ruling council of Soveria during an expedition in the Nomen Heights. During their travels through it, they were beset by mudmen which Asya dispatched.

Several years after their initial expedition, they returned to excavate to find the source of the magical aura. It was discovered that it extended below the mud, and hiring laborers from Tatsilford they dug for 12 days. The excavation included an observation deck, a temporary logdings for the workers, and wooden scaffolding along its perimeter designed to prevent mudslides.

The workers uncovered three large heads, which began animated from the disturbace. A mud elemental, a magma elemental, and a stone elemental arose, which the ruling council defeated but not before Ivana, a druidess summoned a lava elemental which became controlled and turned against her.

General Mikhail was slain by an earth elemental during this encounter, and reincarnated as a human woman.

Under the mudflats, a large 10 foot radial black sphere with dwarven runes was found. It was opening colored portals to the elemental planes spewing forth lava and hot mud, also sometimes causing monsters to crawl outwards.