Bloody Plains

The Bloody Plains are a corridor of historically significant, though sparsely featured grassland southeast of Minoc.

Description
The area is so named for the vicious campaign fought upon these sprawling fields to overcome the newly unified Britannia's remaining vestiges of evil and the massive amount of blood that was shed on those days of battle, giving birth to countless myths surrounding the area. Reflecting later geographical changes, the location would eventually be referred to as the Bloody Marsh.

Age of Enlightenment
Throughout the Avatar's appearances in the realm, the area shared a reputation with the Fens of the Dead for fostering the scarce reagent mandrake root, with its small patch of marsh favorable to the rare plant remaining perpetually damp, according to legend, from blood spilled in the battles of yore. By the time of the gargoyle invasion in Ultima VI, adjacent swamplands had engulfed the landscape to such a degree that they began to encroach upon the outskirts of nearby Minoc, impeding thoroughfare to the city throughout this period.

Age of Armageddon
Over the course of the Avatar's subsequent two-century absence, the remaining plains were overgrown by woodland, and by the time of the hero's return in Ultima VII, the region had instead come to be known by its defining feature as the Bloody Marsh. Later, in the widespread devastation of the Great Cataclysm inflicted by the Guardian's final effort to conquer Britannia, this historical locale was ultimately one of many to be torn asunder from the continent and swallowed beneath the waves of the Great Sea.