In 1264, a group of adventurers entered the Countess's tower, only to encounter the Countess herself. It is believed that her fortune was divided up among the clergy, but that some of it remained in the tower. It is said that she bathed in the 'rejuvinating blood of a hundred virgins', but was buried alive.
The Countess once ruled from a castle in the Black Marsh. Rising over the buried dungeons in that god-forsaken wilderness, a solitary tower, like some monument to Evil, is all that remains.' And her castle in which so many cruel deeds took place fell rapidly into ruin. 'And so it came to pass that the Countess, who once bathed in the rejuvenating blood of a hundred virgins, was buried alive.
