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Sure. Livermore was repeatedly flooded until it was abandoned (so the US Army Engineers could “fix” the river responsible), and the upper reaches of the west branch of the Thornwash, that flows south to empty into the Lake of Steam at Ankhapur fit that very well.
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@TheEdVerse I'm working on a forgotten realms mystery/adventure that's inspired by the stories of Livermore PA and Centralia, PA. I have a village name and a marsh/forest terrain setting, but no place to put it in the faerun map. Any suggestions for good locations?
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Centralia is abandoned due to a coal-seam fire beneath it that has burned for years. There are places in Threskel today, due south of Mount Thulbane, where the same thing is happening, and there are “Baking Rocks” (hot rocky terrain) and “Forging Rifts” (open...
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...cracks in the rock where lava seethes, and brave gnomes and dwarves come to work metals in the heat).
Now, if you want those two conditions in the same village, so in the same place, that’s much harder. You’ll have to go all the way east to southern Semphar...
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...for that. To the westernmost branch of the Goldenflow, where it tumbles down out of the Raurin Alta.
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