Curving around the lake, heading south, as they were fording the river feeding into Candlemere Lake, they'd spot an odd site, on a small island in the midst of the marshy river delta. A low, muddy hummock protrudes from the middle of the widening river, surrounded by a palisade of outward-facing, sharpened wooden stakes. Inside, tendrils of smoke rise from a handful of mounds clustered around a single larger mound. A simple wooden gate on the eastern side of the hummock seems to be the only entrance to the fortified island.