The Maps of Myrist

The Lake of Ill Omen is immense, dwarfing even the next largest lake on Kunark. It gets its name from tales arising from the Iksar tribal era. Many Iksar, after bathing in the lake, suffered untimely and horrid deaths in the days that followed. Upon touching the waters, the victims were said to experience vivid dreams of their fate soon to come. After their deaths, the cursed Iksar arose as mindless zombies. Of course, this is all the stuff of legend – now, many swim the waters of this saltwater lake, ostensibly without suffering such a dire fate.

The old port city of Veksar once lay upon the shoreline. At one point, giant earthquakes caused an enormous chunk of land, Veksar included, to slide into the depths of the lake. Just beyond the shoreline, one can see the peaks of Veksar structures that pierce the water's surface. Many ruins of Veksar stand almost as they once did, others lie toppled on the basin floor.

The basin was once a very active thermal vent region, as the former residents of Veksar can attest. Fissures, too narrow to enter, spout bubbles and hint of a subterranean cavity existing underneath the sedimentary layer of rock.

In truth, a large portion of the old city of Veksar now lies in an immense cavern in the underworld of the Underfoot, where it has been swallowed up and then given new life as the sliding land behind the city formed a roof to hold back the water once again. A fissure still has multiple whirlpools sucking down water slowly and forming waterfalls of immense height in the Underfoot. The salty seawater is fed into the lake via a channel connecting the lake to the ocean.