Barbed Fields

The Barbed Fields is a desolate wasteland north of the Ghostlands in Xhorhas, the ground zero of the Calamity and home to dangerous creatures and errant magic.

Arbor Exemplar:

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Towards the end of the Calamity and the following Divergence, before all of the prime deities left Exandria, the Wildmother buried this seed within the most desolate land. It is considered the sister tree to the Seed of Rebirth, which is the tree that resides in the center of the The Abundant Terrace of Vasselheim.

Creatures

 * Gloomstalker
 * Sorrowsworn
 * Roc
 * Udaak
 * Horizonback Tortoise

History
It was the ground zero of the Calamity. The forces unleashed in the battle flash-eroded the landscape and left thick spires that, over the following centuries, were eroded further into more hook-like spines.

The Mighty Nein rode through the Ghostlands and into daylight, reaching the edge of the Barbed Fields. At dusk, the moorbounders abruptly stopped and sniffed the air, and they noticed a person sitting next to one of the trees. Caduceus determined it wasn't undead, but when Frumpkin (in vulture form) went to investigate more closely, it wailed mournfully and dashed toward the party. The creature, one of The Lost of the Sorrowsworn, was attacked by the party and their moorbounders but was joined by three more and a swarm of bats. Two were killed by Jester, two by Beau, and Fjord took out the swarm of bats. The party spent the night under the dome.