The Legend of the Chaos Scar

The Chaos Scar, the legends say, was carved out of the southern Ogrefist Hills over 300 years ago by the fall of a massive meteor. Stories in multiple languages say that as it passed overhead, shards of astral rock peppered the area causing flowers to shriveled, milk to curdled, and dead to rise from the grave. The meteor crashed into the earth with deafening force, and red radiance lit the sky for a week.  The power of the meteors impact left a valley a mile wide and hundreds of feet deep:  The Chaos Scar. Tales say that it was no mere rock, but an alien creature older than the gods and from beyond time and space -- what learned men call "the Far Realm." Along with these tales a name is whispered -- Shoth-Gorag. The tales must have some truth because over the centuries, creatures of evil spirit have been drawn to "the Scar" as if to a beacon. Vile, ravening hordes have risen again and again, centered around the impact site.  At the height of the Nerath Empire, a long forgotten king tried to contain the contagion by building a long wall across the eastern end of the valley, the ruins of which still bear his title: The King's Wall. He is long dead and his wall is crumbling but the abomination lives on. Quiet has reigned recently while bandits and lords have engaged in petty bickering but now the evil rises again. Hushed tales of glowing monsters, glass forests, and undead armies. Restwell Keep, lying near the King's Wall, was until recently the haven of a band of adventurers who were little more than bandits. It was conquered just a few years ago by Lord Peridin Drysdale, a paladin of Erathis, the goddess of civilization and order. Word says that he means to use it as a shield against the evil of the Scar and eventually as a base from which to send forth forces to defeat the evil that dwells there, once and for all. Many adventurers have entered the Chaos Scar--some at his behest and some for their own glory. Few have returned but those that do tell dark stories of monsters and mayhem as never before. Whatever these heros are running from or searching for, they will have their hands full stanching the evil bleeding from the Chaos Scar!