#23 The Beasts of Barfun Moor
The inhabitants of Glymmsforge may be forgiven for thinking Barfunweltz Cemetery is unremarkable, for the small part of it which borders that great city is ordinary indeed. Even the phenomenon of its blood-oozing roses is hardly worthy of note in the Realm of Shyish. Granted, there are the stories of a Baby-Eating Bishop, tales of a procession of martyred souls and the inevitable reports of deadwalkers, but every gravesite in Shyish has its hauntings.
Yet Barfunweltz harbours many secrets and mysteries, even in its very geography. In order to expedite their suppression of the sects of the Sanguine Rose, the Gravewalkers instructed Aetheric Navigators from the Nav-League of Barak-Nar to produce a map of the cemetery. The Stormcast Eternals had noted that it seemed particularly easy to become lost on the paths among the tombs and that some features, most notably Barfunweltz Manse, appeared to change location and even appearance. The Kharadron cartographers spent many months flying over Barfunweltz, attempting to survey the mist-shrouded cemetery landscape below them. But loathe as they were to admit it, the vast grave fields proved largely unmappable.
They were able to confirm that the tombyards collectively known as 'Barfunweltz' have somehow been growing in size and now comprised a continental-sized labyrinth of gravesites, sepulchral gardens, burial grounds, mass graves, mausoleum cities and military monuments. These areas seem to writhe and shift with the winds of Shyish, even as they swell and spread with the addition of more souls in thrall to the Sanguine Rose.
The Karadron cartographers noted a vast, windswept expanse of barren heathland studded with ancient cairns and barrows. This is the mysterious, mist-shrouded Barfun Moor, the haunt of ancient wights and a miserable home to some of the bravest mortals in Shyish. Since time immemorial, its sparse inhabitants, both living and dead, have been constantly harassed by herds of beastmen: The Beasts of Barfun Moor.
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