Shimmerglens / Myriana

The Shimmerglens have long been shrouded in mystery, for these trackless swamps are said to lie quite close to the First World, particularly where they border Sanos Forest.
Capricious and sometimes malicious creatures are known to harass travelers in this domain.
The Wicker Walk between Sanos Forest and the hamlet of Bitter Hollow was built expressly to offer travelers a way to cross through the swamps without annoying the area's denizens, but stories still abound of Nixies laying traps to confuse and baffle travelers, of Nymphs seducing men and women and leaving them besotted and lost in the marsh, and of Sprites stealing supplies and replacing them with rotten fish, poison mushrooms, or disturbing little dolls made of clay and string.


But now, a darker horror holds court in the heart of the riverside swampland.
A Nymph named Myriana, the lover of Fort Rannick's former commander, Lamatar Bayden, has been brutally murdered.
Her ghost now haunts the swamps, and this entire domain has become polluted with her restless hate.


The Kreeg attack on Fort Rannick was not staged randomly. Operating on critical information provided by the traitor Kaven, the Ogres chose the exact night that Jakardros was leading many rangers on an extended patrol and fortress' commanderwas out on a so-called 'communion walk'.
In fact, Lamatar was visiting his lover, and in doing so, unknowingly doomed her.
As the Ogres led by Jaagrath Kreeg assaulted Fort Rannick, the Lamia Matriarch Lucrecia led a smaller group into the Shimmerglens under the cover of magic.
As they approached Myriana's domain, Lucrecia sacrificed some of her Ogres, sending them out to savage and destroy a Dryad's tree.
Both Myriana and Lamatar were quick to respond to this assault, only to discover the attack was an ambush. Even as they put down the Ogres who had attacked the Dryad, Lucrecia and the rest of her minions surrounded and overwhelmed them.

Lamatar was captured and made to watch as Lucrecia let her Ogres have their way with the Nymph.
It may have been a blessing that the Ogres were too enraged by their losses in the fight to do anything but tear the Nymph limb from limb, yet the sight was enough to drive Lamastar mad.
Lucrecia escorted him and the Ogres back to the peak of Hook Mountain, where they handed the broken man over to the three Aniss Hags for an even more horrific fate.