Skull Gorge

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Skull Gorge is situatied on the upper course of the River Reaching. It is a sharp cut through the surrounding terrain, and its steep walls run almost to the river's edge. The walls of the gorge are made of a very pale gray stone and riddled with caverns.

It was in this steep-walled valley that the bulk of the surviving orc and hobgoblin chieftains and shamans gathered following the Battle of the Bones to stand off the armies of humans. The goblinoid races summoned extraplanar aid, for later forces encountered many fiends and tanar'ri. A great disembodied skull glowing with red flames was seen in the air above the gorge as the human troops made their final assault. The gorge was cleared of the orcs and hobgoblins, and is now thought to be deserted.

Much booty is said to have been hurriedly concealed in the caverns that lace the whitestone walls of the gorge. Few who have come here seeking the treasure have been seen again, and though treasure has been found here, so have fell beasts that seem to appear from nowhere to attack travelers in the gorge.

In recent years, attacks by orc raiders have suggested that not all the goblinoids were defeated. Perhaps decendants of the original tribes still survive. Some even wonder if the powerful relics used in the final hours of the battle are being brought out to be used again.