Heart of Darkling – Frog Tower

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 25th map total) along the Darkling River and the Darkling Sea beyond.

Cut into the cave walls of East Frogsport is Frog Tower. This is an old duergar mine that worked a vertical vein of copper down from a cave at the upper end of their domain and eventually breached into the caverns of what is now Darklingtown where they stopped mining both because of the water flow and the vein running out. Cleaned up and converted into a “tower”…