The Bandúrhoth (also "Gadrahoth"), or Place-demons, were spirits that became so attached to the places that they dwelt that they became trapped there. The word bandúrhoth meant ‘people of the dark prison.’ These spirits gave up their physical form in order to gain complete power and control over their surrounding environs. These beings were as varied as the places in which they dwelt, and indeed had no true physical form. Perhaps they slept oblivious to the goings on of the outside world, but the place they inhabited was tainted by their presence and the land seemed as though some foul wound festered deep within it tainting all that grew and lived there. Perhaps these beings remained dormant in their abodes only stirring when awakened by some other force or event, and once awakened they th