I did not think there was a crime heinous enough to deserve this place as a sentence..

The Scratching Stone has always been an area of interest for the local people. A huge slab of granite with a top a couple of acres in area, it is out of place when compared with the other rock formations in the area. It has bore many names - Evenstone, the Great Altar, the Giant's Dinnertable and others lost to time.

The Grinder was instituted as a capital punishment for the worst murderers and criminals.

The Hydra Anemone is a powerful ambush predator found off the hidden Isle of Manjoo. The sorcerous energies there undoubtedly spawning this submarine horror.

Nethernimbus - Also known as Wraithstorm, Necronimbus, The Great Blackness

The author's quips and comments on making the most of your first submission

An assortment of cures scattered to all ends of Strolen's domain!

Swords are deliverers of death to the living. This one offers something more to those already dead...

In an age of sail, one of the most important of resources is a source of tall, straight and strong trees for use as masts. Mastwood island is one such location.

The school of Entwiners is formed around the art of creating magic with rope and knots.

The Zoimorph School of Magic is a school of magic specialized in altering and creating variants of life, sometimes referred to as Arcanaeugenics.

Never buy your potions from the Discount Dealer...

30 Mostly Maddening Merchants

A flower from the gardens of the Divine...

A malaign substance that can bring a lingering, horrible end.

11 great statues of lost gods being chipped away by the condemned.

Kazarad the lich watched his minons strip the slain adventurers of their gear, and he being the meticulous type, the gear was sorted into piles. One of larger piles was a heap of iron spikes. 'Why do they all carry those damn things? What am _I_ supposed to with all of those? '

Then a moment of inspiration stuck him.....

The Big Picture of the World of Nyathis, for the time being...

"Yes, there are some unusual patterns to these - her patients, but we have nothing to prove anything other than statistical anomalies."

Just the thing for making your demon-infested two-handed sword from Hell!