Vues'dal Waters

The Vues'dal Waters is a large lake in the Verdant Expanse of southern Tal'Dorei.

Description
The Vues'dal Waters exist at the edge of the Stormcrest Mountains, nerby to where they meet the Stormpoint Mountains. The land surrounding the waters is home to the most fertile farmland in the southern regions of Tal'Dorei. Because of this, a small elven village with a population of around a thousand exists on its shores, under the protection of Syngorn.

History
In ancient times, the site now known as Vues'dal Waters was instead the site of Mount Vues'dal, an active volcano. It erupted for a final time in the early Age of Arcanum, in an explosion so cataclysmic that the entire moutain was sunk beneath the earth and formed the Vues'dal Basin. Over time, the basin was filled with water from the Feshun River, creating the lake.

Since around the 780s PD the people living around Vues'dal clashed with the lizardfolk in the surrounding marshes. In the Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting adventure hook Legions of the Reptile God, these lizardfolk became more aggressive and organized under the leadership of the spirit naga Maledicta Hexos, who united the lizardfolk tribes in the name of Zehir the Cloaked Serpent.

Between 812 and 836 PD, some of the lizardfolk began to join the small, primarily elven settlements surrounding the waters. There are now over two thousand people living in the villages around the lake; about half are elves, another quarter goblinkin refugees fleeing the Iron Authority, and 12% lizardfolk.