In 1460 a horde of Telmori werewolves descended upon the people of the valley, slew all they could catch, and laid waste the ancestral villages. The hunting bands of the Telmori make their home here and in the hills around.
The river that runs through Torkan’s Vale flows only very slowly. Thick reed-beds cover the margins of the lake, while choking weeds and green scum spread out far from the shore in the summer months.