The Salt Marshes

The Salt Marshes are a land largely ungoverned-by and not useful to the more “civilized” races. The surface here is a dense tangle of gnarled vegetation, making barriers that prevent unfamiliar explorers from being able to enjoy the totality of their movement here. The roots of mangrove trees and thick clumps of fern and vine exist in a brackish flood of undrinkable water stained dark by rotting vegetation and animal matter. Insects flourish and are quick to bite and prey on any warm-blooded thing they can find. There are however, signs of habitation about. Ruined homes made of stacked stone and decaying mud brick shows where temples and shops once stood. Weak and overgrown tracks and wagon paths show evidence of being previously cobbled roads, now long left to the whims of nature. Some various cartographers and explorers have gone into this horrible snag of biting insects and dank vegetable life, to pursue rumors of an empire of Yuan-ti that supposedly still dwell within the darkest center of the jungle. Stories abound of people unlucky enough to have fallen asleep near the borders of this coastal jungle, only to be taken and awake to dark temples and raging fires, about to be sacrificed to some horrible god or another. However, if these stories would true, how would we ever hear of them in the first place?

Possible Salt Marsh encounters?

Bullywug cr ¼

Dragon, Black cr 2-21

Giant Crocodile cr 5

Green Hag cr 3

Hydra cr 8

Lizardfolk cr ½-4

Shambling Mound cr 5

Stirge cr ½

Will-O’-Wisp cr 2

Yuan-Ti cr 1-7

Banshee cr 4

Blights cr 1/8-1/2

Constrictor/Giant Constrictor ¼-2

Crocodile cr ½

Frog/Giant Frog cr 0-1/4

Giant Toad cr 1

Lizard/Giant Lizard cr 0-1/4

Mud Mephit cr ¼

Pixie

Venemous Serpents

Sprite cr 1/4

Swarm of Insects cr ½

Treants? Cr 9