Northala Mound is a neolithic site at the edge of the borough of Horsingdon. It is alluded to in the Domesday Book, where the locale is referred to as a place best shunned by lawful, God-fearing folk; certainly its reputation as a locus of sinister forces has continued to the present day: not only do tales of strange lights, mysterious disappearances, and frightful apparitions cluster about the place, but there also exists a body of folklore referring to 'The Dragon Beneath the Mound' who, it is averred, will one day rise from some unknown gulf deep below the ancient tumulus to shake the world to its foundations.
The guardians of the Black Bowers retain a continual (though secret) watch on the place - for they believe that such fanciful tales conceal a more terrifying truth: that the Mound conceals a portal to a dead world wherein slumbers one of Those Who Wait; that when the stars reach their proper alignment, the gateway to this world will be thrown open; that this monstrous sleeper will awaken, thence to rise and stride forth to consume the world.
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