Brookbury Basin

A large, oval fertile plain of Kural ringed on all sides by snow-mantled hillsides and furrows of small canyons. The fields were speckled with the stone barns of peasanthold farms. In the center of the basin stood Swafham, and at the far end gaped the Giant's Gullet, a narrow gorge leading south to the rest of Kural. It was also connected to the Dark Wood Canyon.

There, one could see a distant rocky peak with an abandoned fortress.

737 throgs, 1,377 shargas and 200 ogares had poured from the Dark Wood Canyon and strew themselves across the plain and started south, slaying anything not quick enough to flee. Survivors fled to the Giant's Gullet and were followed by scouts, who were temporarily stopped by Wahooka.