Location from The Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski
A war-ravaged swampland called No Man's Land — where deserters, monsters, and desperate villagers survive among flooded battlefields and the Crones of Crookback Bog demand terrible tribute.
Velen is where war goes to rot. The marshlands stretch in every direction, a landscape of drowned fields, skeletal trees, and fog that clings to the ground like something alive and hungry. The Crones of Crookback Bog — ancient, powerful, and genuinely horrifying — demand children and worship from villages too terrified to refuse, their tapestry of ears hanging in a hut that smells of rendered fat and dark magic. The Bloody Baron rules from Crow's Perch with the desperate authority of a man who knows his power extends exactly as far as his soldiers can march. There is no law in Velen beyond survival. Deserters from both armies haunt the roadsides. The bogs bubble with swamp gas and drowner nests. Everything here is damp, desperate, and slowly sinking — the land itself seems to be digesting the people who live on it.
Endless bogs and muddy fields under a perpetually overcast sky. Skeletal trees stand in standing water. Burned villages and abandoned military camps dot the landscape.
Also known as: Velen, No Man's Land