The Barrow Downs

The Barrow Downs is a clump of hills in northern Craven Cove. The Barrow Downs is riddle with middens and old tombs. It is also a locus for vampiric mist activity, spawned by a vampire that deliberately starved himself to death.

History

One night long, long ago,a girl walked through the Barrow Downs without food, shelter, or company. She eventually hunched over in despair, waiting for her life to end. Yet it did not, for a vampire stumbled upon her and took her back to his lair. Her "rescuer" fed upon her blood, yet he went too far and it seemed like she would die. Strangely, the vampire evidenced a conscience and delivered the girl to the town of Widows Peak, where she was eventually saved by a herbalist. The vampire returned to his lair and for the rest of his existence eschewed drinking blood, as it now only disgusted him. Therein, he experienced a gruesome, ignoble death of starvation. All that was left behind was a misty mass of jumbled up emotions and hunger. Meanwhile, the girl grew up and later became known as the infamous the Sea Witch.

Later, the townspeople of Widow's Peak gathered in a mob and murdered her, and this elicited a further form of seething wrath in the vampiric mist. Since then, it has spawned lesser versions of itself to plague and menace the town. These manifestations hunt and kill for the main mass while it remains safe in the darkness of its tomb, the Bloody Barrow.