
Schematic map of Murmuring Caves.
Coastal caves where the tide breathes in and out of unseen galleries, and every word you speak comes back wrong — softer, or later, or in a voice not quite yours. Miners work them anyway; the ore is good and the murmuring, they insist, is just the sea.
Travellers report bears, hedgehogs, lynxes, and wolves.
Gatherers come for coal seams, copper ore, iron ore, limestone, quarry stone, and tin ore.