
Problems with the Weather
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StormCastle is well named, as it rains almost continuously.
However, StormCastle was not always this way. Legends tell
that the foul weather only began after the Dark Six asserted
themselves in this region.

The reason StormCastle has such bad weather is that the
Wizard Nod, its former occupant, opened an interplanar
gate to the Elemental Plane of Water which remains open
to this very day.

What happened was that the small creek which supplies
the mountain lake just outside StormCastle was judged
to be too shallow and too slow moving to provide
adequate feed for irrigation. Nod, attempting to correct
the problem, opened up the gate inside the lake,
dramatically increasing the flow.

However, before significant progress could be made on
irrigation, the rebellion erupted. Since then, various
creatures have come through the gate, one of them a giant
burrowing water serpent, which proceeded to divide the
lake's feed in half by digging an underground river.

Of course, with the planar gate open for so long as in
such proximity, the weather has been magically influenced
towards rain, and hardly a day goes by without a downpour.

