Heart of Darkling – The Mushroom Caves

The Darkling River works its way through the underdark beneath the grey hills to depths unknown. Darklingtown is a trading community built into a series of claustrophobically low-ceilinged caverns on the banks of the Darkling and a number of its tributaries. Darklingtown (which in turn will be made of 9+ maps) is the seventeenth mapped location (and this the 23rd map total) along the Darkling River and the Darkling Sea beyond.

The populace of darklingtown subsist on a diet of various underdark food animals and a LOT of mushrooms. While a number of houses have small mushroom gardens, one family has set aside whole sections of caves for the cultivation of several varieties of mushrooms. The river that flows through this area comes almost immediately down from the surface and brings with it significant organic sediment – including a…