Built over the foundations of countless other graveyards and crypts, the Ossuary Church is run by the priesthood of Pharasma, although its site has served many deities over the ages. The other structure of note on the Crown is the city’s largest and most intimidating church-the Ossuary Church. Numerous cruel taskmasters have their tanneries, alchemy workshops, and middenstone vats here. The poorest (and generally newest) residents live in hovels clustered together for safety and stability-a town of scavenged rubbish. The stench in the Filth is indescribable, especially in summer, and huge numbers of rats, flies, and particularly a species of maroon cockroach dwell here, making the land an almost living thing. A number of rag and bone merchants employ scavengers like this, and their warehouses are scattered on the edges of the Filth.
Stories abound of folk who have found diamond rings, furs, and even magic items in the rubbish here, but also iron, wood, and other common salable commodities.
Often, the transition between land and water is gradual, with shores being little better than quicksand most buildings along the shore are built on wooden pilings sunk deep into the ground. Much of the city’s waste ends up here, and as such, the water quickly clogs with flotsam so that there are always several barges at work clearing the waterways and removing the flotsam to one of the Filth’s great burn pits. The western area of the Carrion Hill runs along the southern bank of the Kingfisher River.
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