For many years, the Durst Windmaill was a functioning grain mill served the entire Zarovich Valley. It belonged to the Durst family and was an important source of economic power to the region, providing grain to Castle Ravenloft and many minor houses. That house would eventually fall into cult-like activities, and after the burning of Death House, the windmill fell into disrepair.
Behind the mill was a series of fanes important to the land, though its occupants never knew their historic importance to a religion that predated the Morninglord. The windmill had been built next to an ancient place of worship for ancient forest-folk that worshipped the The Seeker of the Ladies Three. These Druids and seers built a fane devoted to her worship here, where they invoked trials of magic. At some point, the Seeker herself developed a series of land-bending Portals in the megaliths that surrounded her fane, Fey Circles that led close to Vallaki and the Village of Barovia.
After the Durst's abandonment, the windmill became known as a cursed place soon after, as a coven of hags lead by Morgantha took over. With her "daughters" Bella Sunbane and Offalia Wormwriggle, she baked Dream Pastries made from children's bones, and sold them back to the local populaces using the fey crossings at the megalith. The hags were often spied on by the Keepers of the Feather, though they quickly learned to kill any Ravens they came across.
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