Deadfall is a strange little burg, numbering barely over a thousand souls. It is the only civilized settlement between Ashenbend and Gold Rocks. No one really knows the origin of its ominous name, but one can guess. It has the unenviable reputation of being one of the bleakest settlements in the Foglands, and survives thanks to being located on the border of a dangerous-enough part of the region, thus avoiding most troublemakers. People there grow and hunt their own food, and whatever they can not make themselves, they trade for with alchemically useful mosses and mushrooms that grow below the town's crypt.
Citizens of Deadfall are rough, guarded people, even by the region's standards. They tend to repay kindness with suspicion. There is an expression local to the Foglands that describes a charismatic person as one who "could win Deadfall over".