Dunford Reach (Patreon)

Dunford Reach is the only stop along the Sunderwash between the city of Ossengrad and the town of Khaldrift. It is a tiny little thorp cut into the forest here on the shore of the river – a gathering place for the few brave souls that cultivate the strange flowers and plants of the overgrown Karn Forest. Dunford Reach is not much more than an inn, and a few repurposed jetties made of cyclopean stone blocks older than any recorded histories.

As the only stop for boats making the river journey, there are usually a few boats docked and moored here, with their crew and passengers at the Washhouse Inn that dominates the town and looks down on the river.

The jetties of Dunford Reach are remnants of ancient ruins. All along this stretch of the shore of the Sunderwash, one can find cyclopean stonework sticking up above the Karn Forest and encroaching into the river proper. These are the ruins of ancient Karn Othrys – already in ruins in the time of the serpent empires. Their histories record it as being a city of the ancients predating the coming of the dragons.

The Washhouse Inn dominates the thorp – it is far too large for the population that lives in town and the farmers and herb collectors that work along the Sunderwash. On many nights it is nearly empty with just the crew of a river barge or two staying here, or their passengers while the crew stay on their boat. Some nights the inn roars to life with the crew and passengers of multiple boats along with the locals who come to enjoy the company (and hopefully earn or steal a few coins from the tourists). Only the ground floor of the inn is shown on the thorp map – there are guest rooms above this floor and a third floor with additional musty old rooms that are rarely needed.

Most of the other buildings shown here are small residences, with a few also doubling as businesses that try to survive off the river traffic. Of these, the two most noteworthy are the apothecary shop on the southern end of the lower tier of town and the general outfitter who shares frontage with the inn. The apothecary is notable for its incredible variety of rare herbs and medicines, whereas the general outfitter is only notable for its incredibly high prices.

This is one of a set of seven maps that were drawn for a set of upcoming adventures called “Ebonoc-Infinity’s End“. They will be released here over the next few months. I will also announce when the adventures are released and how to get them. The description above is not from the adventure, but is my own interpretation of how to use the map in question.

https://dysonlogos.blog/2026/09/28/dunford-reach-a-tiny-riverside-thorp/